Summary of Reports Issued and Participation on Management Advisory Teams and Special Audit/Evaluation Efforts. October, November, and December 2000

Abstract

The objective was to evaluate milestone decision authorities, use of exit criteria to track program progress in important technical, schedule, and management risk areas. Specifically, we determined whether milestone decision authorities use exit criteria to track acquisition program progress in meeting program goals and to aid in deciding whether programs should continue within an acquisition phase or progress to the next acquisition phase. Our review of the nine major Defense programs(three Army, three Navy, and three Air Force) showed that improvements were needed in the establishment of exit criteria at milestone decision points and in reporting the status toward attaining exit criteria requirements to milestone decision authorities. For seven of the nine programs reviewed, milestone decision authorities did not ensure that program managers proposed program-specific exit criteria for use at the future milestone decision point(s). As a result, the milestone decision authorities were limited in their ability to use exit criteria as a management tool to determine whether programs under their review and oversight should progress within an acquisition phase or continue into the next acquisition phase at milestone decision points. Program managers for three of the five major Defense acquisition programs reviewed did not report their status toward attaining exit criteria requirements in the quarterly Defense Acquisition Executive Summary. As a result, milestone decision authorities and OSD action officers did not have information to use as a management tool for assessing each programs progress toward satisfying exit criteria requirements and for providing direction, when needed, between milestone decision points.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA393118

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

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  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Accuracy
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Network Security
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environmental Security
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Organizational Structure
  • Test And Evaluation

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