Critical Success Factors and Their Application to DOD Weapon System Acquisition

Abstract

Department of Defense weapon systems are growing more complex and expensive and the services are under increasing pressure from Congress to improve the cost schedule and performance of their weapons programs. The purpose of this project was to investigate and provide an overview of issues within the DoD acquisition system and provide information to assist program managers in dealing with some of the challenges they face. The goal of this project was to identify Critical Success Factors and determine if they could be applied to DoD acquisition programs in order to improve the acquisition process and provide program managers with a tool to assist them with managing a complex program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA460304

Entities

People

  • Chad M. Harris

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Governments
  • Lessons Learned
  • Management Personnel
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Program Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Government
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Business

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Strategic Security Studies