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Management perspectives pertaining to root cause analyses of Nunn-McCurdy breaches. Mark V. Arena ... [et al.].

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Management perspectives pertaining to root cause analyses of Nunn-McCurdy breaches. Volume 4 : Program manager tenure, oversight of Acquisition Category II Programs, and framing assumptions / Mark V. Arena ... [et al.].
Publication
Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, c2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Arena, Mark V.
  • National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
  • Rand Corporation.
Description
xxx, 115 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
Concern with cost overruns in major defense acquisition programs led Congress to direct investigation of the root causes of overruns in programs that have breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds. The authors calculate program manager tenure to determine whether tenures have lengthened since policy guidance was issued in 2005 and 2007. They also address the question of whether existing decentralized systems used to track the cost growth and performance of acquisition category II programs are sufficient or whether additional centralized guidance and control from the Office of the Secretary of Defense are warranted. A third question deals with the management of cost and schedule risk and whether the identification of key assumptions, which the authors call framing assumptions, could be a useful risk management tool.
Alternative Title
  • Root cause analyses of Nunn-McCurdy breaches
  • Program manager tenure, oversight of Acquisition Category II Programs, and framing assumptions
Subject
  • United States. Department of Defense > Costs
  • United States > Costs
  • United States > Costs
Note
  • "National Defense Research Institute."
  • "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
  • Volumes 1-2 have base title: Root cause analyses of Nunn-McCurdy breaches.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-115).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Program manager tenure -- Oversight of ACAT II programs -- Framing assumptions -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 9780833082053
  • 0833082051
OCLC
862119992
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library