Acquisition: DOD's (Department of Defense's) Acquisition Improvement Program - Program Managers' Views

摘要

The objective was to obtain the perspectives of program managers from government and industry on the effect of the Defense Acquisition Improvement Program (DAIP). The program included 33 initiatives designed to improve the process of acquiring major weapon systems and to achieve cost savings, shorten the acquisition process, increase readiness, and strengthen the industrial base. The authors obtained the program managers' perspectives through two separate mailed questionnaires to government and industry managers. The two questionnaires were nearly identical except that the industry questionnaires excluded certain questions, such as those related to the Defense Systems Acquisition Review Council (DSARC) process, that the government managers were uniquely qualified to answer. Data collection was completed in April 1986.