Download or read book MAJOR ACQUISITIONS SIGNIFICANT CHANGES UNDERWAY IN DOD S EARNED VALUE MANAGEMENT PROCESS 158505 B 276406 U S GAO MAY 5 1997 written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Major Acquisitions written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Download or read book Major acquisitions significant changes underway in DOD s earned value management process report to the Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology Committee on Armed Services U S Senate written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Making Strategic Decisions in Department of Defense Acquisition Using Earned Value Management written by Douglas B. Bushey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition officials a guide for using earned value management (EVM) to make strategic decisions. Today's military forces face a great variety of threats with unprecedented complexities. To deal with these threats, DoD is pursuing a bold strategy to transform itself into a more agile and lethal force while fighting the war on terrorism. This transformation, in concert with fighting a global war, comes at an expense. The fiscal year (FY) 07 defense budget will exceed $513 billion this year; if historical trends continue, around 33% of these dollars will go to weapon system acquisitions. For more than 35 years, DoD has used EVM to ensure the efficient and effective use of these dollars. Yet despite the fact that this project management process has been around for so long, DoD still struggles to keep weapon system projects within budget. In the first quarter of FY06, 40 programs reported Nunn-McCurdy unit-cost breaches, with 25 of these reporting greater than 50% unit-cost growth. This paper examines how DoD can better use EVM to make strategic decisions on defense programs. The first portion of this paper briefly describes earned value and the process DoD uses to validate a contractor's system. With this background, the paper describes how a valuable resource -- the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) -- can assist project managers (PMs) with using EVM to make strategic program decisions. This section is dedicated to program EVM analysis methods used to develop pieces of the puzzle that predict answers to very important program management questions. The research methodology includes analysis of three major defense program EVM systems and data, comprehensive literature review of EVM in acquisition management, and consultation with PMs, DCMA personnel, and DoD contractors. This paper will not cover the basics of EVM. Rather, it concentrates on the use of this concept as a predictive tool to identify root causes of problems, develop solutions early in the acquisition life cycle, and make strategic program decisions. This paper includes questions that acquisition officials can use to shape EVM and the data analysis and products that can be expected. Finally, it concludes with recommendations for maximizing the use of EVM to make strategic decisions.

Download or read book Defense Acquisitions Managing Risk to Achieve Better Outcomes written by Paul Francis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. In FY 2009, DoD spent nearly $384 billion on contracts. This investment, representing over 70% of total gov¿t. contract spending, highlights the great need to better manage risk in acquisitions. But DoD has not always managed risks effectively: major systems continue to take longer to develop, cost more, and deliver fewer quantities and capabilities than originally planned. In addition, poorly managed growth in services spending has contributed to disappointing program outcomes. This testimony focuses on: (1) planning of DoD's acquisitions; (2) contract types and the award process, incl. bid protests; (3) outcomes of major acquisition programs; and (4) acquisition and contractor workforce mgmt. It also highlights relevant reforms in each area.

Download or read book Major Acquisitions written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Download or read book Space Acquisitions Acquisition Management Continues to Improve But Challenges Persist for Current and Future Programs written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Each year, DOD spends billions of dollars to acquire space-based capabilities that support military and other government operations. The majority of DOD's space programs were beset by significant cost and schedule growth problems during their development. Most programs are now in production, however, and acquisition problems are not as widespread and significant as they were several years ago. In prior years, GAO has identified a number of actions DOD is taking to improve management and oversight of space program acquisitions. Facing constrained budgets and concerns about the resiliency of its satellites, DOD is considering potential changes to how it acquires space systems. This testimony focuses on (1) the current status and cost of major DOD space systems acquisitions, (2) recent actions taken to further improve space systems acquisitions, and (3) potential impacts of the direction DOD is taking on upcoming changes to the acquisition of DOD space systems. This testimony is based on previously issued GAO products, ongoing GAO work on disaggregated architectures, interviews with DOD officials, and an analysis of DOD funding estimates from fiscal years 2013 through 2018. "

Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Download or read book National Defense written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by Office, U.s. Government Accountability and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In fiscal year 2009, the Department of Defense (DOD) spent nearly $384 billion on contracts. This investment, representing over 70 percent of total government contract spending, highlights the great need to better manage risk in acquisitions. But DOD has not always managed risks effectively: major systems continue to take longer to develop, cost more, and deliver fewer quantities and capabilities than originally planned. In addition, poorly managed growth in services spending has contributed to disappointing program outcomes. DOD weapon system acquisition and contract management have been on GAO's high-risk list for nearly 20 years.This testimony focuses on(1) planning of DOD's acquisitions; (2) contract types and the award process, including bid protests; (3) outcomes of major acquisition programs; and (4) acquisition and contractor workforce management. It also highlights relevant reforms in each area.This statement is based on GAO's body of work on DOD acquisitions and contracting and on GAO's statutory role in issuing bid protest decisions. GAO has made numerous recommendations in prior work but is not making any new recommendations in this..."

Download or read book The U s Department of Defenses Earned Value Management analyst Workforce written by Roland J. Yardley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The role of earned value management (EVM) as a tool for integrated program management across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has increased in prominence in recent years. The focal point for all policy, guidance, and competency relating to EVM is the deputy director of the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses (PARCA) Earned Value Management (EVM) division, who serves as the functional lead for EVM, a cross-functional acquisition community. As a cross-functional community, EVM faces challenges in workforce management that communities in designated career fields do not face. EVM is not a career field in itself, and DoD does not systematically track its workforce for the purposes of workforce planning in the same way that it tracks members of designated career fields. The research reported here surveyed the DoD EVM-analyst workforce and described the population across several dimensions. Yet, insight into the EVM-analyst workforce is necessary for the execution of PARCA's responsibilities to support the development and integration of EVM competencies across the defense acquisition workforce." --Back cover.

Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by Michael J. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-11 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) requested $168 billion in FY 2014 to develop, test, and acquire weapong systems and other products and equipment. About 40% of that total is for major defense acquisitions programs or ACAT I programs. DOD also invests in other, non-major ACAT II and III programs that are generally less costly at the individual program level. These programs typically have fewer reporting requirements and are overseen at lower organizational levels, although they may have annual funding needs that are just as significant. This report addresses (1) the extent to which information is available on the number, cost, and performance of ACAT II and III programs; and (2) factors that affected the performance of selected ACAT II and III programs. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.

Download or read book Defense Acquisitions Managing Risk to Achieve Better Outcomes written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fiscal year 2009, the Department of Defense (DoD) spent nearly $384 billion on contracts. This investment, representing over 70 percent of total government contract spending, highlights the great need to better manage risk in acquisitions. But DoD has not always managed risks effectively: major systems continue to take longer to develop, cost more, and deliver fewer quantities and capabilities than originally planned. In addition, poorly managed growth in services spending has contributed to disappointing program outcomes. DoD weapon system acquisition and contract management have been on GAO's high-risk list for nearly 20 years. This testimony focuses on the following: (1) DoD acquisition planning; (2) contract types and the award process, including bid protests; (3) outcomes of major acquisition programs; and (4) acquisition and contractor workforce management. It also highlights relevant reforms in each area. This statement is based on GAO's body of work on DoD acquisitions and contracting and on GAO's statutory role in issuing bid protest decisions. GAO has made numerous recommendations in prior work but is not making any new recommendations in this testimony.