Getting Better Outcomes from Weapon System Programs

Abstract

CHALLENGES THAT REMAIN TO GETTING BETTER OUTCOMES: How will initiatives like strengthened focus on SE, EMRLS, etc., succeed when incentives encourage starting programs too early, making revolutionary technical leaps, underestimating cost and risk, and promising record delivery times? * Can we employ evolutionary acquisition and trade requirements to match a 5-year cycle and to mature technologies? * Can we provide S&T the funds, organization, and authority to do the necessary pre-acquisition SE and technology development work? * Can we put managers in a position to succeed with a shorter cycle and hold them accountable for results? * Can capabilities-based requirements be controlled so that tradeoffs can be made? * If the solution requires the invention of numerous technologies, is so complex that the government cannot be the integrator, and so expensive that it takes most of a service's budget, is it really a viable solution?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA509617

Entities

People

  • Matt Lea

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Best Practices
  • Commerce
  • Demonstrations
  • Engineering
  • Engineering Drawings
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Military Acquisition
  • Product Development
  • System Software
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design