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6 Communication, Resources, and Infrastructure
6 Communication, Resources, and Infrastructure
Pages 51-58
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Such collaboration is essential to avoiding long, costly, and unsuccessful product development programs. The drivers of unsuccessful commercial programs included the following features that panel members noted to be common to many troubled acquisition programs in DOD.1 1See Zyburt's presentation at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cnstat/ Presentations %20Main%20Page.html [November 2011]
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DOD development programs completed on time, within initial cost/required funding estimates, and meeting or exceeding all performance parameters -- an outcome that resulted from close collaboration.2 Close collaboration has also existed in earlier successful DOD programs, such as the nuclear attack submarine and ballistic missile submarine programs; it appears to be rare in recent DOD acquisition programs. Senior DOD acquisition executives in the Office of the Secretary and the military departments have the authority to require such close collaboration in the programs they oversee, but of late they have rarely required it or enforced it among the various groups critical to program success.
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Previous National Research Council (NRC) studies have emphasized the importance of using all available test information to improve operational evaluations, particularly with the use of evolu tionary acquisition techniques.
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A data archive could support analysis to control and manage a considerable fraction of operations and support costs by revealing and quickly fixing system deficiencies through a failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis, and a failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system supported by such data collection. This database would need to be easily accessible by program managers and testers.
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They represent some aspects of the database we are describing. There are databases with developmental test data, databases that collect operational test data, databases with modeling and simulation results, and databases with field performance data.
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For example, if modeling and simulation were used to extrapolate from light loads instead of actual physical testing, the validity of the use of modeling and simulation can be examined and the process for validat ing modeling and simulation can then be improved. The National Research Council (2003)
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effort to develop feedback loops on improving fielded systems and on better understanding tactics of use of fielded systems. The DOD acquisi tion and testing communities should also learn to use feedback loops to improve the process of system development, to improve developmental and operational test schemes, and to improve any modeling and simulation used to assess operational performance.
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DOD should examine creative alternatives, includ ing ways to engage noncitizen engineers on DOD acquisition programs, temporary employment opportunities, fellowships, internships, and sab baticals of various kinds.
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