Evaluation of Government Quality Assurance Oversight for DoD Acquisition Programs

Abstract

Our objective was to evaluate DoD overarching quality management policies and procedures and Government-performed quality assurance oversight of defense acquisition programs. To evaluate DoD quality management practices across DoD, we evaluated top-level policies and procedures of DoD Components (that is, Military Departments, Defense agencies, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the combatant commands, and DoD field organizations). DoD through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD[AT&L]) has not established an overarching quality management policy to ensure the consistent application of quality management system requirements across DoD Components. In addition, DoD and its Components do not have effective feedback mechanisms in place to evaluate the performance of quality management system and sufficiency of policies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 03, 2014
Accession Number
ADA612463

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Best Practices
  • Contract Administration
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Logistics
  • Manufacturing
  • Military Acquisition
  • Procurement
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Supply Chain
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.