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

• Main Author: Arena, Mark V. (auth)
• Other Authors: Blickstein, Irv (auth), Doll, Abby (auth), Drezner, Jeffrey A. (auth), Kallimani, James G. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2013
• Subjects: Military history; Political control & freedoms; Military engineering; History; Technology; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The authors investigate whether the tenure of program managers contributes to Nunn-McCurdy breaches. They also examine the existing decentralized systems used to track cost growth to determine whether additional guidance and control are needed to make acquisition category II programs' performan...