Defense Acquisition Research Journal. Volume 21, Number 4, Issue 71, October 2014

Abstract

The theme for this edition of Defense Acquisition Research Journal is "...All Others Must Bring Data." It derives from the famous quote by American management consultant W. Edwards Deming, "In God we trust; all others must bring data," displayed outside the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Frank Kendall. Accurate and meaningful data are the basis for making informed acquisition policy decisions; as British scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) said over a century ago, "When you can measure what you are speaking about ... you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA613979

Entities

People

  • Larrie D. Ferreiro
  • Mary C. Redshaw

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Engineers
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transport Aircraft

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Theoretical Analysis.