Historical Analysis of Costs, Risks, and Uncertainties: Moving From a Proprietary to an Open Architected Systems, Open Business Acquisitions Management Approach

Abstract

The use of open architecture (OA) systems to guide acquisition of naval systems and the "opening up" of proprietary systems is presumed to have produced significant cost savings. However, their use may have also introduced new forms of risk and uncertainty for the acquisition manager. Addressing this problem, several qualitative research studies were conducted to identify benefits, risks, and best practices from historical case data involving OA, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and modular open systems approach (MOSA) implementations.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2012
Accession Number
ADA563609

Entities

People

  • Russel Wolff
  • Scott Cole
  • Tom Housel

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Intellectual Property
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Navy
  • Open System Architecture
  • Organizational Structure
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Small Business
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Uss Port Royal

Readers

  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.