Using Spiral Development To Reduce Acquisition Cycle Times

Abstract

Spiral Development came out of the software community as a response to the high number of large software development failures. The concept is now being extended to weapon systems. A "spiral development" acquisition process should be the norm for long-term weapons and systems development to achieve lower cost, lower risk, and more rapid fielding. Evolutionary Acquisition is the preferred broad strategy to satisfy operational needs; while Spiral Development is the preferred process for executing such a strategy. Spiral development changes everything, and will require major culture change for both the user and acquisition community.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 2008
Accession Number
ADA493930

Entities

People

  • Jacques Gansler
  • William Lucyshyn

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Contracts
  • Homeland Defense
  • Lessons Learned
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Logistics
  • Military Operations
  • Public Policy
  • Software Development
  • Spiral Development
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.