Books written by Mark V. Arena

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  Monitoring the Progress of Shipbuilding Programmes: How Can the Defence Procurement Agency More Accurately Monitor Progress?

  As part of the annual assessment of its large projects, the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), part of the UK Ministry of Defence, measures 'slippage'-the delay between a promised in-service date and the actual or projected in-service date.

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  Why Has the Cost of Navy Ships Risen?: A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Naval Ship Costs Over...

  The surface combatant pairings represent comparisons of average costs for classes; in particular, we compare average costs for Charles Adams–class destroyers acquired in FY 1961 to those of Arleigh Burke–class destroyers acquired in FY ...

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  Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches: Program Manager Tenure, Oversight of Acquisition Category II Programs, and...

  Concern with cost overruns in major defense acquisition programs led Congress to direct investigation of the root causes of overruns in programs that have breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds.

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  Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches: Contractor Motivations and Anticipating Breaches

  With an eye to making defense acquisition more effective and efficient, the authors explore defense contractor motivations in pursuing defense contracts and identify mechanisms that might more closely align those incentives with Department ...

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  Learning from Experience: Volume II: Lessons from the U.S. Navy's Ohio, Seawolf, and Virginia Submarine Programs

  An overarching lesson from the three programs is the importance of program stability. This volume presents an overview of lessons learned from three U.S. Navy submarine programs that could help inform future program managers.

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  Learning from Experience: Volume III: Lessons from the United Kingdom's Astute Submarine Program

  This volume presents a set of lessons learned from the United Kingdom's Astute submarine program that could help inform future program managers.

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  DoD and Commercial Advanced Waveform Developments and Programs with Multiple Nunn-McCurdy Breaches

  The report presents the results of two studies: The first compares the capabilities and development approaches used in the Joint Tactical Radio System wideband networking waveform (WNW) and the commercial long-term evolution waveform, and ...

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  Historical Cost Growth of Completed Weapon System Programs

  Our analysis shows that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the military departments have generally underestimated the cost of buying new weapon systems and that this growth is higher than previously thought.

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  Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities

  Nuclear submarine design resources at the shipyards, their suppliers, and the Navy may erode for lack of demand.

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  Implications of an Air Force Budget Downturn on the Aircraft Industrial Base: An Exploratory Analysis

  The U.S. Air Force is facing a number of challenges as a result of the current defense budget downturn.

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  Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches: Excalibur Artillery Projectile and the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Program : with an Approach...

  Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches of Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office ...

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  Why Has the Cost of Fixed-wing Aircraft Risen?: A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs Over...

  This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated beyond the rates of commonly used inflation indices, examining both economy-driven factors that the Services cannot control...

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  Impossible Certainty: Cost Risk Analysis for Air Force Systems

  This report is one of a series from a RAND Project AIR FORCE project, "The Cost of Future Military Aircraft: Historical Cost Estimating Relationships and Cost Reduction Initiatives.

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  Sustaining U.S. Nuclear Submarine Design Capabilities: Executive Summary

  For the first time since the design of the first nuclear submarine, the U.S. Navy has no nuclear submarine design program under way, which raises the possibility that design capability...

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  U.S. Navy Shipyards: An Evaluation of Workload- and Workforce-management Practices

  The U.S. Navy spends nearly $ 4 billion annually on maintaining ships. Most of this work is done at public shipyards that perform some of the most complex tasks the...

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  Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 4: Program Manager Tenure, Oversight of Acquisition Category II...

  Concerned with cost overruns in programs that breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds, Congress directed investigation of the root causes of these overruns, and the authors examine various possible contributors to these breaches.

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  Management Perspectives Pertaining to Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches: Contractor Motivations and Anticipating Breaches

  With an eye to making defense acquisition more effective and efficient, the authors explore defense contractor motivations in pursuing defense contracts and identify mechanisms that might more closely align those incentives with Department ...

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  Acquisition of Space Systems: Past Problems and Future Challenges

  Acquiring and deploying space systems in a timely, affordable manner is important to U.S. national security but for years, Department of Defense (DoD) space programs have experienced large cost growth,...

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  Identifying Acquisition Framing Assumptions Through Structured Deliberation

  This report documents the structured process that was developed to help project teams identify acquisition framing assumptions (FAs), which are useful in defining and tracking key program assumptions throughout the...

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  Is Weapon System Cost Growth Increasing?: A Quantitative Assessment of Completed and Ongoing Programs

  As of January 16, 2007: http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3560/ Merrow, Edward W., Kenneth E. Phillips, and Christopher W. Myers, Understanding Cost Growth and Performance Shortfalls in Pioneer Process Plants, Santa Monica, Calif.