Army Materiel Requirements Documents: Qualitative Analysis of Efficiency and Effectiveness

Abstract

The U.S. Army must maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the documents that facilitate successful materiel requirements generation for the warfighter. Throughout the last decade, incremental modifications to policies and procedures have resulted in changes to the mandatory materiel requirement documents. These incessant changes have forced continuous revisions to the requirements generation process and materiel requirements documents over the last decade. Consequently, many factors are constraining the future of the Army's requirements generation process as the Global War on Terror comes to a close. This project examines the benefits and shortfalls of past and present materiel requirements documents. It examines these requirements documents based on their efficiency and effectiveness for key stakeholders. The project also weighs these documents against current initiatives for best practices in the DoD. Subsequently, a comparative analysis is performed on requirement documents for three ground vehicles that have been either produced or projected for production.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA585669

Entities

People

  • Anh H. Ha
  • Nathaniel P. Costa

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Support
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Explosives
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reliability
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Software Engineering