Digging Out the Root Cause: Nunn-McCurdy Breaches in Major Defense Acquisition Programs

Abstract

Continuing concern over defense acquisition has led Congress to direct the establishment of an office in the Department of Defense to oversee the conduct of root cause analyses on programs that have incurred Nunn-McCurdy breaches. This paper focuses on one such program. RAND analysis of several programs with Nunn-McCurdy breaches reveals they share several common causes. However, each program is different, and those differences suggest that policymakers should be wary of applying policies that assume all program cost increases stem from common causes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA624034

Entities

People

  • Bill Shelton
  • Charles Nemfakos
  • Irv Blickstein
  • Jerry Sollinger

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Cost Overruns
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Governments
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Propulsion Systems

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Systems Analysis and Design