Facilitating Decision Making, Re-Use and Collaboration: A Knowledge Management Approach to Acquisition Program Self-Awareness

Abstract

Decades of reform have been largely ineffective at improving the efficiency of the Department of Defense's (DoD) Acquisition System. Such inefficiency is, in part, due to complex processes and stovepipe activities that result in duplication of effort, lack of re-use, and limited collaboration on related development efforts. This research applies Knowledge Management (KM) concepts and methodologies to the DoD acquisition enterprise to increase "Program Self-awareness." This research supports the implementation of reform initiatives such as Capability Portfolio Management and Open Systems Architecture, which share the common objectives of reducing duplication of effort and promoting collaboration and re-use of components. The DoD Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Program will be used as a test case to apply KM tools to identify duplication and/or gaps in the features of select MDA technologies. This paper also may provide the foundation for future development of the Program Self-Awareness concept and KM tools to support decision making and to improve the effectiveness of the DoD Acquisition System.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA501688

Entities

People

  • Christopher W. Odell
  • John L. Robey

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Data Visualization
  • Employment
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Maritime Domain Awareness
  • Maritime Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Teamwork
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.