To help improve leadership decisionmaking related to the costs of offensive cyber operations acquisition, the authors developed a life-cycle cost-estimating framework for the U.S. Marine Corps and conducted exploratory modeling and simulatio...Lasīt vairāk
As described in this report, the authors developed an empirical basis for exploring policy issues pertaining to Department of Defense operations under a continuing resolution at the start of a fiscal year, which has become the norm in recent ye...Lasīt vairāk
Jennifer Kavanagh, William Shelton, Megan McKErnan, Kathryn Connor, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Kristy N. Kamarck, Katherine Pfrommer, Mark V. Arena, Irv Blickstein...
The authors examine the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System Inc. 1A Nunn-McCurdy breach and document a methodology that can assess and summarize the overall performance of an acquisition portfolio at a point in time and over sever...Lasīt vairāk
Identifies and characterizes conditions present in six U.S. Air Force Major Defense Acquisition Programs experiencing extreme cost growth, using case study analysis....Lasīt vairāk
Mark V. Arena, Brian McInnis, Irv Blickstein, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Megan McKErnan, Charles Nemfakos, Jerry M. Sollinger, John Birkler, Gordon T. Lee...
The authors analyze what motivates defense contractors to determine if better incentives exist to the ones now used, and analyze major defense acquisition programs to see if it is possible to identify programs that might incur a Nunn-McCu...Lasīt vairāk
Mark V. Arena, Rena Rudavsky, Irv Blickstein, Daniel Gonzales, Sarah Harting, Jennifer Lamping Lewis, Michael McGee, Megan McKErnan, Charles Nemfakos, Jan Osburg...
Compares aspects of the Joint Tactical Radio System network domain program with similar elements for the commercial long-term evolution waveform and analyzes acquisition programs that have repeatedly exceeded certain cost thresholds....Lasīt vairāk
Mark V. Arena, Daniel Tremblay, Irv Blickstein, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, Jennifer Kavanagh, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Megan McKErnan, Charles Nemfakos, Jerry M. Sollinger...
Concerned with cost overruns in programs that breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, Congress directed investigation of the root causes of these overruns, and the authors examine various possible contributors to these breaches....Lasīt vairāk
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisit...Lasīt vairāk
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches of Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the...Lasīt vairāk
Irv Blickstein, Charles Nemfakos, Michael Boito, Jeffrey A Drezner, James Dryden, Kenneth Horn, James G Kallimani, Martin C Libicki, Megan McKernan, Roger C Molander...
This analysis uses data from Selected Acquisition Reports to determine the causes of cost growth in 35 mature major defense acquisition programs. Four major sources of growth are identified: (1) errors in estimation and scheduling, (2) decisions by t...Lasīt vairāk
In recent decades, there have been numerous attempts to rein in the cost growth of U.S. Department of Defense acquisition programs. Drawing on prior RAND research, new analyses of completed and ongoing weapon system programs, and data drawn from Sele...Lasīt vairāk
Our analysis shows that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the military departments have generally underestimated the cost of buying new weapon systems and that this growth is higher than previously thought. It indicates a systematic bias toward und...Lasīt vairāk
