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| Aquisition Catagories (ACAT) |
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| Determine the level of management review, decision authority, and applicable reporting requirements for a program. |
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| Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS |
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| Program estimated by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for networks and information integration ro require program costs, total program costs and total life cycle. |
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| All elements of a system from cradle to grave. |
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| Total cost to the government of a program over is full life. |
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| Cost Analysis Requirements Description (CARD) |
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| Complete descripton of the system whose costs are to be estimated |
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| Systematic Approach to the problem or choosing the best method of allocation scarce resources to achieve a given objective. Key cost reflected as present value. |
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| Comparison with historical information of similar existing activities, systems or comparisons. |
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| Bottom up method of cost analysis which is most detailed and costly to implement. |
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| Program Evaluation and & Review Technique (PERT) |
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- Identify activities and milestone.
- Determine the proper sequence of activities.
- Construct a network diagram.
- Estimate the time required for each activity. |
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| Better display the critical path and interdependency of task in a project. Also call network diagrams. |
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| Better at displaying the schedule and resources used in a project |
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| Actual reduction of an approved program if the benefit occurs during the POM period. |
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| Reduction or elimination of some future resource requirement. |
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| Redution in future personnel time and effort requirements associated with a function or assigned task that has been included in an approved program. |
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| Most frequently occurring in a distribution of score. |
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| Middle number is a list of sorted numbers. |
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| Measure of how a set of values is spread around the mean. |
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| Past expenditures from prior fiscal years. |
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| Should include a mixture of competencies and be under 10 players. |
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| Process of measuring and comparing one's process against industry best. |
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| Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) |
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| All expenditures must be tied to annual performance goals and expenditures. |
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| appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made, except as otherwise provided by law. |
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