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| The SECDEF is the principal defense advisor to the President and is responsible for the |
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| formulation of the general defense policy related to all matters of direct & primary concern to the DOD |
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| The Dept of Defense is responsible for |
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| producing the military forces needed to deter war & protect the security of the country |
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| The SECDEF is the principal defense advisor to the President and is responsible for the |
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| formulation of the general defense policy related to all matters of direct & primary concern to the DOD |
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| The Dept of Defense is responsible for |
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| producing the military forces needed to deter war & protect the security of the country |
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| The chairman of the JCS is responsible for – |
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| assisting the president and the SECDEF in providing for the strategic direction and planning of the armed forces, preparing strategic plans within projected resource levels, preparing logistic and mobility plans, making recommendation for the assignment of responsibilities within the Armed Forces in accordance with the support of those logistic and mobility plans, performing assessments to determine the capabilities of Americans and allied forces, preparing and reviewing contingency plans that conform to guidance and preparing joint logistic and mobility plans to support contingency plans |
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| The chairman of the JCS is responsible for |
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| assisting the president and the SECDEF in providing for the strategic direction and planning of the armed forces, preparing strategic plans within projected resource levels, preparing logistic and mobility plans, making recommendation for the assignment of responsibilities within the Armed Forces in accordance with the support of those logistic and mobility plans, performing assessments to determine the capabilities of Americans and allied forces, preparing and reviewing contingency plans that conform to guidance and preparing joint logistic and mobility plans to support contingency plans |
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| The chairman of the JCS advises the SECDEF on critical deficiencies and strengths in force capabilities. |
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| This includes manpower, logistics, and mobility support. He assesses the effect of such deficiencies and strengths on meeting national security objectives. |
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| Who advises the SECDEF on the extent to which major programs and policies of the armed forces in the area of manpower conform with strategic plans. |
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| The Vice Chairman of the JC performs duties assigned by the chairman with approval of the SECDEF |
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| He acts as a the chairman when the office of the chairman or in the absence or disability of the chairman. |
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| All military forces are assigned under the jurisdiction of a combatant command to perform duties |
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| The chairman of the JCS functions within the chain of command by transmitting to the commanders of the combatant commands the orders |
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| This process is used to acquire, allocate, account for and analyze personnel and financial resources for the DoD. This is one of the primary tools for defense resource management. |
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| PPBE is also the DOD process |
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| to determine the dollar amounts for programs to be submitted to congress as part of the PB. |
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| PPBE establishes the framework and provides the mechanism for |
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| decision making for the future. |
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| Is the principal forum for consideration of national security and foreign policy matters. |
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| The National Security Council (NSC) |
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| That NSC statutory advisors (by law) are the |
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| Chairman of the JSC and director of National Intelligence |
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| The NSC standing princpal advisors are Pres (chairman), |
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| VP, SECDEF and Sec of state and energy |
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| The standing participants are the sec of treasury, assistant of the Pres for National security affairs, chief of staff of the pres, counsel to the pres, representatives of the USA to the united nations, attorney general, sec of homeland security and other cabinet members and may more |
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| National Security Strategy (NSS)-Presidential policy study directives |
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| This is developed by the secdef to support the national security strategy |
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| A national defense strategy (NDS) |
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| NDS outlines a layered defense addressing threats throughout the world and from space, directly against the us and inside the us. |
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| This automated database that summaries all forces, resources, and equipment associated with programs approved by the secdef. |
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| Future year defense planning (FYDP) |
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| forces, manpowers, and total obligation authority identified to a program element. |
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| The FYDP is usually updated two times a year in the |
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| even number years to coincide with the submission of the the service POMS and PB. |
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| DOD 7045.7.H maintained by the director, programs, analysis, and evaluation, est. conventions to be used for entering information in the database includes the following: dod program structure, all approved definitions, codes and titles and program and program element criteria. |
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| PPBE, JCIDS, and defense acquisition system. |
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| Three principal decision making support system are |
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| systematic method established by the joint chiefs for assessing the gaps in military joint war fighting capabilities |
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| This is the management process by which the dept acquires weapons systems. |
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| Defense acquisition systems |
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| There are three key elements to the decision making process. |
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| They are GDF, Major issues and Joint programming guidance. Guidance for the development of the forces (GDF) |
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| Major Decision analysis is a combined OSD/JS examination of |
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| major programmatic issues and performance metrics for measuring success in achieving programmatic goals |
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| Five major objectives for the planning phase: |
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| 1. define national defense strategy to help maintain the national security and supporting US foreign policy 2 to 7 years in the future. 2. planning the integrated and balanced forces necessary to accomplish that strategy. 3. assure necessary framework to manage DOD resources, 4. provide decision options to the secretary to help assess the role of national defense and 5. discuss the planning goals and programming objects, milestones, progress, issues and problems. |
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| Joint strategic planning helps the CJSC provide military advice to the |
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| President and SECDEF. It provides strategic direction and form defense policy, programs and budgets |
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| The deputy secretary conducts reviews through his advisory group (DAWG) and issues are referred directly to the Secretary if they cannot be resolved by the deputy secretary |
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| is the secretary of defense principal management review council. The SLRG reviews operational, program and budget issues that require the attention of the secretary. Most decisions are made by the DAWG and not referred to the SLRG. |
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| Senior Leader Review Group (SLRG) |
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| Chaired by the SECDEF key members of the SLRG include |
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| the under secretaries of defense, CJCS and service secretaries |
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| Deputy's Advisory Working Group (DAWG) |
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| -The Deputy SECDEF and Vice chairman of the JSC co chair this group to oversee the development of guidance and review program and budget proposal that can be resolved without the attention of the SECDEF |
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| . In some cases issues are developed and reviewed before the presentations to the SECDEF. This group is compromised of the two leaders, the undersecretaries of defense, the service undersecretaries, the service vice chairman and deputy of socom. |
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| The JPG in the planning phases leads to |
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| program objective memorandums (POM) that leads to issue papers and that leads to resource management decisions (RMD) |
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| the purpose of the programming phase is to |
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| translates planning decisions, OSD programming guidance, and congressional guidance into a comprehensive and detailed allocation of forces, manpower and funds. |
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| he is the only one that can change it by directing the service to change. |
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| policy and risk assessment, conventional forces, modernization and investments, readiness & other logistics, manpower, intelligence, management initiatives and nuclear forces. |
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| While the POM and CP's are taking place the OSD staff is conducting it's review. This review focuses on the balance of capabilities of the forces contained in the POM or CP's. The Chairman's program assessment (CPA) reports the results of that review to the secdef prior to his decisions in the resource management decisions. |
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| The issues of the RMDs completes the programming phase. |
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| OSD-OMB budget review jointly review the submissions. It focuses on proper pricing, reasonableness and executablitly. This is also called the fall review. Decisions are recorded in the comptroller information system. (CIS) |
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| Appropriation & program sponsors provide appropriation/program overviews at osd/omb hearings and osd analyst draft the rmd for review and coordination. |
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| RMD documents are issued during the joint review and reflect the secdef decisions regarding appropriate programs and funding to be included in annual defense budget request to the president |
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| Beginning with the FY02/03 the BES, the automated CIS became the official OSD record of the budget estimates as submitted by DOD. |
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| The data contained in CIS are the basis for preparing the program and financing schedules, relations of obligations and outlays, object class schedule and the data required for OMB MAX budget system (required by a-11) these documents are forwarded to OMB for preparation of the PB. |
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| Near the end of the budget review process, the SECDEF and DSECDEF may provide for the review of component major policy or budget issues that have not yet bee resolved. Resolution of this issue may displace other programs within in fixed DOD topline. |
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| Normally the CJCS presents concerns of the combatant commanders during the osd/omb review. |
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| ACQUISITION INTERRELATIONSHIP with PPBE |
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| The research, development & acquisition plan (RDA) is a continuous process focusing on a 15 year planning horizon (6 budget and POM years plus a 9 years extended planing period). The RDA plan systematically focuses RDA programs on solving battlefield needs derived from war fighting. |
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| DAB is DOD's senior level forum for advising the USD (AT&L) on critical decisions regarding major defense acquisition programs. The DABS is composed of the departments senior acquisition officers. |
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| VCJCS ( vice chairman of DAB)(chairs the Joint requirements oversight council- JROC) |
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| The USD(AT&L) is the DAB chairman. |
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| Members of the DAB include USD(C), DOT&E, services secretaries of army, navy and air force, the cognizant overreaching integrated product team (OIPT) Leader, USD(P), USD(P&R) and ASD. |
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| The JROC reviews and identifies all needs that cannot be met by current capabilities. It validates and identifies mission need, assigns a joint potential designator for meeting the need and forward the ICD with JROC recommendations to the USD(AT&L) |
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| The final budgetary output of the PPBE is the submission of the DoD budget to the president for approval to congress for authorization and appropriation. The 1974 congressional budget act requires the president to submit the budget request NLT the first Monday in Feb. |
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| Reimbursable and support agreements |
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| dod or military organizations may do work for other agency or organization if: funding is available, the order is in the best interest of the government, the filling agency can provide the ordered goods or services and the ordered goods or services cannot be provided by contract as conveniently or cheaply by commercial enterprise |
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| Below threshold reprogramming thresholds RDT&E |
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| max in +10M max out lesser of 10M o 20% -level of control -program element |
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| Below threshold reprogramming thresholds Procurement |
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| max in +20M max out lesser of 20M or 20%-level of control -line item |
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| Below threshold reprogramming thresholds O&M |
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| max in 15M max out none, unless otherwise specificed- level of control – BA |
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| Below threshold reprogramming thresholds MILPERS |
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| max in 10M max out no specific congressional restriction- level of control BA |
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| Below threshold reprogramming thresholds MilCON |
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| max in lesser of 2M 25% max out no specific congressional restriction – level of control – Project. |
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| Modern day revolving funds/dcwf authority is provided by the national security act of 1947. |
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| DCWF activities currently execute 121.6B. DCWF employ about 180,000 civilian and 17,000 military personnel. They employ about 1/3 of DoD's total approximately 700,000 employees |
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| There are two categories in revolving funds: |
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| stock funds and industrial funds. |
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| procuring matériel in volume from commercial sources and holding it in inventory. Stock funds include all activities dealing with the authorized customer who purchased the item to achieve weapon system readiness. |
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| industrial and commercial goods and services such as maintenance, transportation, and research and development |
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| DWCFs will make a profit and loss. The profit or loss is called net operating results and the running total of net operating results over the fiscal years of funds existence is called the accumulated operating results. The aor is the adjustment made in future rate to achieve the breakeven position. |
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| Wip consist of cost associated with products that are in the |
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| process of being manufactures or fabricated but are not yet complete. |
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| A-11 establishes the procedure for |
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| recording refunds. You should record refunds: Paid by an expenditure account as an obligation and an out of the account. |
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| Defense acquisition system is the management system process that guides |
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| all DoD acquisition programs. DODI 5000.01 provides the policiesand principles that govern the defense acquisition sytem. DODI 5000.2 operation of the defense acquisition system provides the framework that implements these policies. |
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| materiel solution analysis assesses potential materiel solutions to satisfy the phase specific entrance criteria for the nxt program milestone designated by MDA. A decision by mda to begin the materiel solution analysis does not mean a new acquisition program has been initiated. It gives approval for an AoA. The aoa purpose is to assess the potential materiel solutions to satisfy the capability need documented in the icd. |
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| Materiel solution analysis phase |
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| is to assess potential materiel solution and to satisfy the phase specific entrance criteria for the next program milestone designated by the mda. |
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| A decision by the mda does not mean a new acquisition program has been initiated it simply gives approval for preparation of an AoA. |
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| asses the potential materiel solution to satisfy the capability need documented in the previously approved ICD. |
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| Technology development phase occurs with the successful milestone |
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| A. the purpose of the phase it to reduce technology risk. |
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| EMD phase occurs with a successful milestone |
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| B. the purpose of this phase is to develop a system or an increment of capability, complete full system integration, develop an affordable and executable manufacturing process, ensure operational supportability with particular attention to minimizing the logistics footprint etc. |
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| Milestone B is considered formal approval for program initiation. Funding for the entire emd phase is normally a requirement to begin this phase. |
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| Also at Milestone B two other decisions are made the quantity of LRIP items of the system and whether advanced procurement will be requested when the system ultimately enters the production phase. |
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| Production and deployment occurs with successful milestone |
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| c. The purpose of this phase is to achieve an operational capability that satisfies mission needs. Operational test and eval determine the effectiveness and suitability of the system. Milestone C specifically authorizes LRIP. |
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| Five overreaching policies governing acquisition 5000.01 defense acquisition system |
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| 1- flexibility- there in no one way or best way-tailor program strategies and oversight 2- responsiveness- integrate advance technology into producible systems and deploy as soon as possible. 3- innovation-adopt innovation practices that reduce cycle time and cost. Teamwork should be encouraged. 4- discipline- mange programs consistent with statue and regulatory requirements within minimum cost, schedule, and performance factors 5- streamline and effective management- decentralize responsibilities to maximum extent practical while maintaining accountability |
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| ACAT I programs funds more than 3 |
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| 65M in RDT&E, 2.19B in procurement. May be speical interest itmes and can include any program designated by USD(AT&L) |
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| ACAT IA usually automated systems, ASD(NII) designates MDA |
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| ACAT IA programs require program cost for any single year in excess of |
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| 32M, total program cost excess 126M and life cycle cost in excess of 378M |
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| Component Acquisition Executive (CAE) is the single official with in DoD component who is responsible for all acquisition functions within that component. |
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| cradle to grave-cost over its overall full life |
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| LCC have three major group- |
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| By appropriation, by WBS and and Cost |
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| WBS is the greatest interest to the program manger and chief engineer. |
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| Major acquisition programs tailor a program WBS in accordance with the guidance in MIL-HDBK-881B. |
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| Cost has three subcatogories, |
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| r&d, investments, O&S and disposal |
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| Program acquisition cost- include development cost in calculation average procurement cost doesn't include development cost |
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| Cost as independent variable- CAIV is based on |
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| the principle that the best time to reduce LCC is early in the acquisition process and inittal cost performance trade off analyses should be conducted before the operational requirements and acquisition approach are finalize. CAIV include stakeholders in the process |
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| economic analysis recognizes that there are |
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| alternative ways to meet the objectives |
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| EA model has 8 major steps in analysis preparation |
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| establish objective-basis for measuring outcome of project. It must be aligned with the organizational mission, formulation assumptions. Identify constraints by listing boundaries or limitation that may be encountered. Determine and identify alternatives include maintain status quo as a possible alternative. Establish clear description of each alternative compare alternatives perform sensitivity analysis by testing uncertainty and risk report results and recommendations |
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| Engineering approach is know as the |
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| bottom up method. It requires extensive knowledge and is very detailed and costly. An individual cost estimate must be accomplished for each WBS element. It's strengths are very accurate and limited subjectivity. It's weaknesses are it is very expensive, very time consuming and difficult what if drills. |
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| Actual cost approach uses |
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| actual cost. It's strengths are little subjectivity and very accurate and it's weaknesses are limited applicability and budget may already be submitted. |
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| Expert Opinion approach uses |
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| subjective judgment of experienced group or individual. Use only if time does not permit a more through analysis. Document all opinions and seek convergences with the Delphi technique |
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| Delphi technique is a method of |
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| narrowing a range of expert opinions to achieve a consensus. To use the delphi technique you query the experts, seek information from each expert, summarize the results, send a report to each expert, gather a second opinion summarize and do it over again until you get a consensus. |
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| Quantifiable benefits can be assigned a numeric value. |
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| Cost saving, cost avoidance, productivity improvement. |
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| Non Quantifiable benefits are |
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| adaptability, availability, functionality, maintainability, moral security, upgradeability, versatility. |
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| Statistical methods-Descriptive and inferential |
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| statistics encompass a large body of scientific theories an methods used to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative facts to support decision making and problem solving processes. |
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| Descriptive stat describes a collection of quantitative information in a way that is easy to understand and interpret. It tells a story. |
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| Measures of central tendency |
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| mean (average number), median (middle) and mode (most common number). |
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| learning curvy theory is as the |
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| quantity of a product produced double the man hours per unit expended to produce the product decreases at a fixed rate or constant percentage. |
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| Annual funding means that |
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| you request only the funds needed to obligate to operate, maintain, or pay the forces in a given year. |
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| Incremental funding two year funding |
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| -only those funds required for work in a given fiscal year shall be included in the RDT&E budget. |
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| Full Funding for procurement and MILCON. |
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| The annual budget request cover the entire total estimated cost to deliver a given quantity. |
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| The first policy is to provide total estimated cost ( total program) so that Congress and the public know how much the program will cost the other policy is to provide for each fiscal year to procure to a complete usable end item. |
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| Multi-year procurement is the |
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| process, planning and ultimate contract by which the government may contract for the purchase of supplies or service for more than one but normally not more than five program years. |
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| Correlation coefficeint measure the degre of relationship between two or more variable. |
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| Correlation ranges from 0 to 1. 0 is no coorelation and 1 is perferct. The + or the – sign indicated the direction of relationship |
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