What Program Managers Need to Know: A New Book to Accelerate Acquisition Competence

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition management process is complex. Despite the DoD s best efforts to standardize acquisition processes and strategies, running a large acquisition program rarely lends itself to a checklist approach. Success as a program manager (PM) requires not only understanding acquisition principles, processes and terminology but also attaining a sound working knowledge of the acquisition functional areas contracting, financial management, systems engineering and integrated logistics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA620588

Entities

People

  • Brian C. Ruhm
  • William T. Cooley

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Financial Management
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Information Operations
  • Military Acquisition
  • Program Management
  • Surveillance
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training
  • Universities

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design