Digging Out the Root Cause: Nunn-McCurdy Breaches in Major Defense Acquisition Programs
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Shelton, Bill
Blickstein, Irv
Sollinger, Jerry
Nemfakos, Charles
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2014-04-30
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Continuing concern over defense acquisition has led Congress to direct the establishment of an office in the Department of Defense to oversee the conduct of root cause analyses on programs that have incurred Nunn-McCurdy breaches. This paper focuses on one such program. RAND analysis of several programs with Nunn-McCurdy breaches reveals they share several common causes. However, each program is different, and those differences suggest that policymakers should be wary of applying policies that assume all program cost increases stem from common causes.
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Acquisition Research Symposium
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NPS-AM-14-C11P08R02-040
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Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.