Acquisition Research Symposium

 
 

This symposium serves as a forum for the presentation of acquisition research and the exchange of ideas among scholars and practitioners of public-sector acquisition.

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Recent Submissions

  • Camouflage Combat Pattern Case Study 

    Mortlock, Robert F. (Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2018-07-03); NPS-AM-18-219
    The development, testing, and fielding of combat uniforms for United States (U.S.) soldiers offers project management (PM) professionals an opportunity to analyze how programs progress through the U.S. defense acquisition ...

  • The Policies and Economics of Software Sustainment: DoD's Software Sustainment Ecosystem 

    Shull, Forrest; McLendon, Michael (Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-03); SYM-AM-17-100
    Software is the foundational building material for the engineering of systems, enabling almost 100% of the integrated functionality of cyber physical systemsﾗespecially mission- and safety-critical software reliant systemsﾗto ...

  • Software Vulnerabilities, Defects, and Design Flaws: A Technical Debt Perspective 

    Nord, Robert L.; Ozkaya, Ipek; Shull, Forrest (Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-03); SYM-AM-17-099
    Technical debt describes a universal software development phenomenon: "Quick and easy" design or implementation choices that linger in the system will cause ripple effects that make future changes more costly. Although DoD ...
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