Download or read book The Impact of the Packard Commission s Recommendations on Reducing Cost Overruns in Major Defense Acquisition Programs written by David A. Searle and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the impact that recommendations made by the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, informally known as the Packard Commission, had on reducing cost overruns in major DoD acquisition programs. Cost overruns are a recurring problem in the DoD, and the study of possible effects resulting from the implementation of acquisition reform efforts such as the Packard Commission study could alter this trend. In this era of acquisition reform and downsizing it's important that policy makers understand the effects past and current policies have had and are having on reducing the ever present problem of cost overruns. Conclusions drawn in this thesis may guide and direct DoD policy makers in drafting future regulations and policies. This study examined 269 contracts completed between January 1,1988 and December 31,1995. It was found that cost performance for contracts completed after the recommendations went into effect was poorer than cost performance prior to the change. It was also found that a more significant difference occurred between contracts in development phases than those in production phases. In fact, percentage cost overruns for development contracts nearly tripled after the policy went into effect. Possible explanations and implications of this discovery are provided.

Download or read book The Impact of the Packard Commission s Recommendations on Reducing Cost Overruns on Defense Acquisition Contracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from selected acquisition reports, Drezner et al. (1993) show that reform initiatives from 1960 to 1990 did not reduce cost growth on 197 defense programs. The average cost growth on these programs was 20 percent and did not change significantly for 30 years. Using data from the Defense Acquisition Executive Summary data base, we show a similar result. Initiatives based on the recommendations of the Packard Commission did not reduce the average cost overrun percent experienced on 269 completed defense acquisition contracts evaluated over an 8-year period (1988 through 1995). In fact, the cost performance experienced on development contracts and on contracts managed by the Air Force worsened significantly. Although many factors contribute to poor cost performance, estimation error is a casual factor identified in each study.

Download or read book The Impact of the Packard Commission s Recommendations on Reducing Cost Overruns in Major Defense Acquisitions Programs written by David A. Searle and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twenty five Years of Acquisition Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of Economic Factors and Acquisition Reforms on the Cost of Defense Weapon Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost overruns in weapon system purchases have plagued the Department of Defense (DoD) throughout its history and have resulted in schedule delays and potentially reduced combat capability. This thesis created an empirical model that begins to explain those cost overruns. The model describes how changes in defense budgets, consolidation of the defense industry, acquisition reform, war, and cost estimating error are related to cost overruns. The cost performance of 186 major weapon system programs managed by the Air Force, Army, and Navy from 1970 to 2002 was described using a panel regression model. This research found that funding instability resulting from changing levels of defense budgets accounted for an increase of over $13.3 billion in weapon system costs since 1970. This research also found that the defense industry consolidation of the 1990s did not result in significant savings to the DoD. Finally, this research found that contrary to past studies, several acquisition reforms are correlated with a decrease in weapon system cost overruns. In particular, reforms resulting from the Nunn-McCurdy Act of 1982, the Packard Commission Recommendations of 1986 and the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) of 1994 resulted in savings of almost $124 billion since 1982.

Download or read book Shades of Gray written by L. Parker Temple and published by AIAA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this work, Temple tracks the evolution of space reconnaissance systems from their seeds in the painful lessons of Pearl Harbor through the challenges of today" --book cover.

Download or read book The Economics of Human Systems Integration written by William B. Rouse and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamental Economic Principles, Methods, and Tools for Addressing Human Systems Integration Issues and Tradeoffs Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a new and fundamental integrating discipline designed to help move business and engineering cultures toward more human-centered systems. Integrating consideration of human abilities, limitations, and preferences into engineering systems yields important cost and performance benefits that otherwise would not have been accomplished. In order for this new discipline to be effective, however, a cultural change—starting with organizational leadership—is often necessary. The Economics of Human Systems Integration explains the difficulties underlying valuation of investments in people's training and education, safety and health, and work productivity. It provides an overview of how the field of economics addresses these difficulties, focusing on human issues associated with design, development, production, operations, maintenance, and sustainment of complex systems. The set of thought leaders recruited as contributors to this volume collectively provides a compelling set of data and principles for assessing the economic value of investing in people, not just in general but in specific investment situations. The early chapters provide the contexts for HSI and investment analysis, illustrating the enormous difference context makes in how issues are best framed and analyzed. A host of practical methods and tools for investment valuation are then presented. Provided are: A variety of real-world applications of economic analysis ranging from military acquisition and automotive investment to healthcare and high-tech investments in general, in both the U.S. and abroad A range of economics-based methods and tools for cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and investment analysis, as well as sources of data for performing such analyses Differing perspectives on economic decision-making, including a range of private sector points of view, as well as government and regulatory perspectives In addition, five real-world case studies illustrate how such valuations have been done and their major impacts on investment decisions. HSI professionals, systems engineers, and finance professionals who address investment analysis will appreciate the wide range of methods and real-life applications; senior undergraduates and masters-level graduate students will find this to be an excellent textbook that provides theory and supports practice.

Download or read book The Impact of the Packard Commission Report Within USAF and DoD written by William D. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two years, there have been sweeping changes initiated in defense acquisition. One of the key forces for acquisition change has been the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management--often called the Packard Commission. This monograph provides an independent view of the packard Commission recommendations, the related congressional legislation, and how the DoD should and will implement both the recommended and directed changes. It is intended to be a useful tool in understanding what has happened, what may happen in the future, and what impact these changes may have on various levels within the defense acquisition systems. Topics include: The Packard Commission Report and Congress, and its impact on the Air Staff and Air Force Secretariat, and its influence on financial management, and the System Program Office; and Defense acquisition in A.D. 2007--A prescriptive history (Beyond the Packard Commission report).

Download or read book Major Systems Acquisition Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices, Efficiency, and Open Government and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Budgeting Financial Management and Acquisition Reform in the U S Department of Defense written by Lawrence R. Jones and published by IAP. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book we introduce the basics of the federal budget process, provide an historical background on the foundation and development of the budget process, indicate how defense spending may be measured and how it impacts the economy, describe and analyze how Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) operates and should function to produce the annual defense budget proposal to Congress, analyze the role of Congress in debating and deciding on defense appropriations and the politics of the budgetary process including the use of supplemental appropriations to fund national defense, analyze budget execution dynamics, identify the principal participants in the defense budget process in the Pentagon and military commands, assess federal and Department of Defense (DoD) financial management and business process challenges and issues, and describe the processes used to resource acquisition of defense war fighting assets, including reforms in acquisition and linkages between PPBES and the defense acquisition process.

Download or read book Weapons Acquisition Policy and Procedures written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Panel on Defense Procurement Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book PM Program Manager Online November December 2000 Issue written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acquisition Review Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Addressing Cost Growth of Major Department of Defense Weapons Systems written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Acquisition Reform written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Major Systems Acquisition Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Spending Practices and Open Government and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Acquisition Issues Related to Tactical Aviation and Army Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on AirLand and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: