Life Cycle Metrics and OSD Oversight: Discipline With Flexibility

Abstract

Recognizing that systems were not achieving adequate reliability during development, leading to reduced warfighting capability and tremendous cost growth, the Joint Requirements Oversight Council acted in August 2006 to require a mandatory sustainment key performance parameter, materiel availability, and two supporting key system attributes, materiel reliability and ownership cost, for all new major defense acquisition programs and other selected programs. This article summarizes the background and rationale for the metrics and discusses some of the additional actions being taken to implement a disciplined approach to reliability and availability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA514042

Entities

People

  • Randy T. Fowler
  • Sean P. Killoy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Availability
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Corporations
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Knowledge Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Resilience
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Systems Analysis and Design