Books written by Jeffrey A. Drezner
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Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 1: Zumwalt-Class Destroyer, Joint Strike Fighter, Longbow Apache, and Wideband Global Satellite
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense ...
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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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Competition and Innovation: In the U.S. Fixed-wing Military Aircraft Industry
Assess prospects for innovation and competition in the military combat-aircraft industry. o Evaluate what is required to maintain a high level of innovation in the military combat-aircraft industry. o
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Environmental Management in Design: Lessons from Volvo and Hewlett-Packard for the Department of Defense
Lessons from Volvo and Hewlett-Packard for the Department of Defense Susan A. Resetar, Frank A. Camm, Jeffrey A. Drezner, ... Eagan , Patrick D. , Industrial Environmental Education and Enabling Strategy for Design for the Environment ...
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Assessing Department of Defense Use of Data Analytics and Enabling Data Management to Improve Acquisition Outcomes
Congress asked about acquisition data analytics in the Department of Defense.
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Lessons from the Army's Future Combat Systems Program
The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program aimed to field an ambitious system of systems, with novel technologies integrated via an advanced wireless network.
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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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Enhancing Management of the Joint Future Vertical Lift Initiative
It is possible to achieve some degree of commonality without joint program management and identifies lessons from historical experience and how they apply to the joint Future Vertical Lift initiative.
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The Use of Baselining in Acquisition Program Management
All major weapon system programs establish a program baseline early in the acquistion cycle which sets forth cost, schedule, and performance targets.
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Innovative Management in the DARPA High Altitude Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program: Phase II Experience
The High Altitude Endurance UAV (HAE UAV) joint program, initiated under the direction of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), incorporates several innovative elements in its acquisition strategy that depart radically from ...
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Measuring the Statutory and Regulatory Constraints on Department of Defense Acquisition: An Empirical Analysis
Managers of weapon system acquisition programs and their staffs have often voiced concerns about the burden of complying with federal statutes or regulations requiring certain business and oversight processes.