A Study of Time Constraints Related to Facilities Acquisition in Support of New Weapons Systems Initial Beddowns

摘要

This research investigated the interrelationships between the weapons system acquisition process and the facilities acquisition process. Independent PERT networks were developed for each acquisition process and a probability distribution was determined for each process. Comparison of the probability distributions showed that the facilities acquisition process could be expected to take approximately 13 months longer to reach an initial operational capability than the weapons system acquisition process when both are measured from the start of full-scale development for the weapons system being supported. The two independent PERT networks were then integrated into a single network which was analyzed to determine ways to compress the facilities acquisition process to meet the same initial operational capability as the weapons system acquisition process. Various alternatives to allow compression of the facilities acquisition process were examined, and a proposal to restructure the interface activity 'tie-in' points between the two acquisition process was developed.