Streamlining PPBS to Support a Responsive System Acquisition Process

Abstract

The Army has embarked on an information technology development and requirements determination process called Spiral Development to implement a modern, state of the art military command and control structure in a more responsive and faster manner than the "standard" acquisition management system allows. As implemented within industry and the Army, the process calls for the frequent use of experimentation, testing and evaluation to evolve, verify and validate requirements and capabilities. At each increment or evolution of the process, the Army finds itself faced with a set of updated requirements that are unable to be resourced due to the existing deliberate structure of the Programming, Planning, Budgeting, System, (PPBS) process. The thesis of this paper is that PPBS as currently structured and implemented does not support the Spiral Development model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 10, 2000
Accession Number
ADA378295

Entities

People

  • Charles F. Mcmaster

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Software Development
  • Spiral Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control