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| Why is Acquisition Important? |
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•DoD Acquisition Provides Materiel for Combat, Readiness Training, Operations, and Support of U.S. and Allied Forces around the World
•80% of a System’s Total Ownership Cost is Predetermined Early in the Acquisition Cycle
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| National Security Strategy (NSS) |
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•The National Security Strategy is the President’s Overarching Requirements Document
•Describes the US Strategy for World Leadership, Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Promotion of Democracy, Open Economic Markets, and Deterrence
•The Current NSS is entitled “The National Security Strategy of the United States of America” (Mar 2006)
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| National Military Strategy (NMS) |
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•The National Military Strategy Defines the Environment, Missions, Objectives, & Priorities Supporting the NSS
•Prepared by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
•Titled “A Strategy for Today; A Vision for Tomorrow”; Addresses 2002 NSS
•Strategic Vision of the CJCS: Identifies Potential Threats and Top-Line Force Levels, Capabilities, Funding Levels, Manpower, and Organizations to Address Those Threats
•Current Strategy driving planning
–1/4/2/1: 1 Homeland; 4 Deter Fwd; 2 Conflicts; 1 Decisive
–Priorities GWOT, Fight Joint, and Transformation
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•Fully integrated solutions--an effective way to get the various disciplines working together
•Participant buy-in
–Integrate jointly derived requirements and schedules
•Get it right earlier (the first time!)
–Improved first time quality/product variability reduced
•Less rework
•Reduced cost
•Reduced cycle time
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•The means through which IPPD is accomplished
•“Composed of representatives from all appropriate functional disciplines working together with a team leader to:
–build successful and balanced programs
–identify and resolve issues
–make sound and timely decisions
–based on timely input from the entire team including customers (warfighters) and suppliers (contractors)”
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| Acquisition Chain of Authority |
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Dr Ashton B Carter (USD AT&L)
Malcom O'Neill (ASA ALT)
Sean J. Stackley (ASN RDA)
David M. VanBuren (SAF/AQ Acting)
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| Acquisition Categories (ACATs) |
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•ACAT ID (“D” Indicates Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) Review)
–Designator: DAE
–Milestone Decision Authority (MDA): DAE
–Review: Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) [OSD Level]
•ACAT IC (“C” Indicates Component Review)
–Designator: DAE
–MDA: Component Acquisition Executive (CAE) or Service Secretary
–Review: Component Headquarters
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| Automated Information System (ACAT I) |
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•ACAT IAM (“A” Indicates Automated Info System)
–Designator: ASD (Networks & Information Integration (NII))
–MDA: ASD(NII)
–Review: AIS OIPT
•ACAT IAC
–Designator: ASD(NII)
–MDA: Component
–Review: Component
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| Acquisition Categories II & III |
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ACAT II
–Designator: DoD Component Head
–MDA: CAE/Service Secretary
Criteria: Major System: $140M RDT&E or $660M Procurement (FY2000 constant $) or designated by DoD Component Head
•ACAT III
–Designator: CAE
–Decision: Lowest Appropriate Level
Criteria: Do not meet criteria for ACAT I ACAT IA, or ACAT II.
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| Defense Acquisition Board |
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•The DAB is the DoD’s senior-level forum for advising the USD(AT&L) on critical decisions concerning ACAT ID programs.
•Chairman: USD AT&L (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) (DAE)
•Vice-Chair: Vice-Chairman JCS
•Members
–USD (Comptroller)
–USD (Policy)
–USD (Personnel & Readiness)
–ASD (N&II)/DoD CIO
–Director, Operational Test & Evaluation
–Service Secretaries
•For IT ACAT IA systems: ITAB (IT Acquisition Board) chaired by the ASD NII.
•STOPLIGHT CHARTS
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•Project Management Offices are organized in both PEO and Command Organizations
•DoD assigns Acquisition Categories (ACATs) based on Funding Levels or DoD Visibility
–ACAT ID - Reviewed at OSD level
–ACAT IC - Reviewed at Service Component level
–ACAT IAM – C3I Systems reviewed at AIS OIPT
–ACAT IAC – C3I Systems reviewed at Component level
–ACAT II & III - Reviewed at lower levels
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| CAIV Cost Objective Concept |
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| Defense Acquisition System |
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•Purpose: Manage the nation’s investment in technology, programs, and product support necessary to achieve the National Security Strategy
•Objective: Acquire quality products that satisfy user needs with measurable improvements to mission capability and operational support, in a timely manner, and at a fair and reasonable price.
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| Acquisition Policy Documents – DoD 5000 Series |
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•DoD 5000.01, The Defense Acquisition System (12 May 03) – Certified current as of 20 Nov 07
–Preeminent, overarching source for DoD Acquisition Policies & Principles
•DoD 5000.02, Operation of the Def Acqn Sys (08 Dec 08)
–Establishes a simplified and flexible management framework
–Authorizes Milestone Decision Authorities (MDAs) to tailor procedures
•Major Policy Themes
–Flexibility - Tailoring
–Responsiveness - Evolutionary
–Innovation – Business Practices
–Discipline - Goals
–Streamlined – Decentralization and Empowerment
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•Overarching Strategy – A PM’s Roadmap through the Acquisition Process
•A PM’s high-level business and technical management approach designed to achieve program objectives within specified resource constraints.
•Provides an integrated master schedule (Program Structure) for:
–RDT&E
–Production
–Fielding
–Other essential activities (Contracting, Funding, etc)
•Evolves through an iterative process and becomes more definitive as the program progresses; Reviewed and approved at each Milestone
•Tailored for each program
•Structured to achieve stability by minimizing risk
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•There are two major external Program Reports….
–The Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES)
–The Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR)
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| Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES) Report |
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•Purpose
–Report program information, assessments, and comments from the PM, PEO, and CAE.
–Highlight both potential and actual program problems to the USD(AT&L) before they become significant.
•For ACAT ID, or as directed by the USD(AT&L), the DAES is submitted quarterly by the PM.
•Typically DoD internal.
•Submitted in automated fashion using DAMIR, Defense Acquisition Management Information Retrieval
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| Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) |
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•Purpose
–The SAR provides standard, comprehensive summary reporting of cost, schedule, and performance information for major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs), both ACAT IC and D programs, within the Department of Defense (DoD) and to Congress.
•Required annually for all ACAT I Programs
•A Breach (6 month schedule slip or 15% unit cost increase) triggers quarterly SAR submission
•Reporting DAMIR is mandatory
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•Three basic Acquisition Management Document categories….
–Acquisition Policy Documents
•Laws, Directives, Policies and Regulations designed to provide guidance to the PM and controls to the Acquisition Process
–Acquisition Management Documents
•Actively used by Acquisition Professionals to assist in monitoring , managing and decision making
–Acquisition Reporting Documents
•Used primarily by high level decision makers to maintain visibility over high cost programs
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| Acquisition Documents Summary |
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•Three basic types of Management Documents
–Policy
–Management
–Reporting
•Tailored to fit the Program
•DoD 5000 Series Major Themes
–Flexibility
–Responsiveness
–Innovation
–Discipline
–Streamlined
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•DoD Directive 5000.01 May 12, 2003
–(Certified Current November 2007)
–Principles retained; innovation/flexibility emphasized
•DoD Instruction 5000.02 (08 Dec 2008)
–Detailed discussion of acquisition model
–Focused on required outcomes and statutory requirements
•DoD Acquisition Guidebook
–characterized as non-mandatory
–Guidance on practice and procedure
–Information retained; available to workforce on Internet
–Currently being revised
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| Single Step & Evolutionary Approaches |
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| Capabilities Based Assessment (CBA) |
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•Initial Capabilities Document (ICD)
–Summarizes a CBA and justifies the requirement for a materiel or non-materiel approach, or an approach that is a combination of materiel and non-materiel, to satisfy specific capability gap
–The ICD summarizes the results of the DOTMLPF and policy analysis and the DOTMLPF approaches (materiel and non-materiel) that may deliver the required capability
–The outcome of an ICD could be one or more joint DCRs or recommendations to pursue materiel solutions
•Capability Development Document (CDD)
–Captures the information necessary to develop a proposed program(s), normally using an evolutionary acquisition strategy
–Outlines an affordable increment of militarily useful, logistically supportable, and technically mature capability
–May define multiple increments if there is sufficient definition of the performance attributes (key performance parameters, key system attributes, and other attributes) to allow approval of multiple increments
–Updated or rewritten for subsequent increments
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•Capability Production Document (CPD)
–Identifies production attributes for a single increment of a program
–defines an increment of militarily useful, logistically supportable, and technically mature capability that is ready for a production decision
–defines a single increment of the performance attributes (key performance parameters, key system attributes, and other attributes) to support a MS C decision
–Rewritten for each increment in an evolutionary program
•DOTMLPF Change Recommendation (DCR)
–Generated by COCOM’s, Services or agencies
–Focuses on changes that are primarily non-materiel in nature
–Normally referred to as “non-materiel” solutions
–Less than 18 months from submittal to the Joint Staff to implementation
–JROC approves; J-8 has oversight
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•Defined in the CDD and CPD
•State the important operational and support-related attributes of a system
–Effectiveness
–Suitability
–Supportability
•Require testing for verification
•Typically stated in terms of threshold and objective
–Threshold: the minimum acceptable value considered achievable within the available cost, schedule, and technology at low-to-moderate risk. Performance below the threshold value is not operationally effective or suitable.
–Objective: desired operational goal achievable but at higher risk in cost, schedule, and technology. Performance above the objective does not justify additional expense.
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| Key Performance Parameters (KPP) |
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•KPP’s: Most essential attributes or characteristics of a system that:
–Are critical to the development of an effective military capability
–make a significant contribution to key characteristics of the future joint force.
–Validated by the JROC
•How many??
–Fewer is better, but must contain sufficient KPPs to capture the minimum operational effectiveness, suitability, and sustainment attributes for the system
–Some are mandatory: Net-Ready, Survivability/Force Protection, Material Availability (Sustainment)
–Some are selectively applied: System Training, Energy Efficiency
•Is it a KPP? Answer the following:
–Is it essential
–Does it significantly contribute
–Is it achievable and affordable
–Is it measurable and testable
–Is it supported by analysis
–Is the sponsor willing to cancel/restructure
•If a KPP is not met, program may be
–Reevaluated/Reassessed/Modified (Must be revalidated!)
–Terminated
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•JCIDS – Top Down
•Capabilities are “born joint”
•CBA
•Documents
–Initial Capabilities Document (ICD)
–Capability Development Document (CDD)
–Capability Production Document (CPD)
–DOTMLPF Change Recommendation (DCR)
•Joint Potential Designators
–JROC Interest
–JCB Interest
–Joint Integration
–Joint Information
–Independent
•Functional Capabilities Board (9 designated)
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MDA approves:
–Materiel solution
–Technology Development Strategy (TDS)
–Exit criteria for next phase
–Milestone A Certification (10 USC 2366a)
–Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM)
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| Technology Development Strategy (TDS) |
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•ACAT I and IA require TDS. Based on AoA results
•Contents:
–Rationale for Evolutionary or Single-step strategy
–For EA, description of how program will be divided into development increments
–Appropriate limits on prototypes produced and deployed during the TD Phase
–Performance Goals and Exit Criteria to be met prior to proceeding into E&MD and producing additional prototypes
–Overall cost, schedule and performance goals for the total R&D effort
–Specific cost, schedule and performance goals and exit criteria for the first technology demonstration, and a test plan to ensure that they are met.
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Purpose: Reduce Technology Risk, determine and mature appropriate set of technologies to be integrated into a full system, and to demonstrate Critical Technology Elements on Prototypes.
Enter: MDA approved materiel solution and TDS; funding for TD phase activities
Activities: Competitive prototyping; Develop RAM strategy; conduct Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
Guided by: ICD & TDS and supported by SE planning
Exit: Affordable increment of military-useful capability identified; technology demonstrated in relevant environment; manufacturing risks identified; system or increment ready for production within short time frame (normally less than 5 years for weapon systems)
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MDA approves:
–Program Initiation (for most programs)
–Entry into EMD
–Acquisition Strategy
–Acquisition Program Baseline
–LRIP quantities
–Exit criteria for next phase
–Type of Contract
–Milestone B Certification (10 USC 2366b)
–ADM
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Engineering & Manufacturing Development
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Purpose: Develop a system or increment of capability, develop an affordable manufacturing process, minimize logistics footprint
•Enter: Mature Technology; Approved Requirements; Full Funding in FYDP
•Activities: Define System of System Functionality & Interfaces, Complete Detailed Design, System-Level PDR (as needed)/CDR, Establish Product Baseline,
•Guided by: CDD, Acq Strategy, SEP & TEMP
•Exit: Complete System-Level CDR and Post-CDR Assessments by MDA
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MDA Approves:
•Updated Acquisition Strategy and Acquisition Program Baseline
•Entry into LRIP for systems that require a LRIP, into production or procurement for systems that do not require LRIP, or into limited deployment for MAIS programs or software intensive systems with no production components
•Exit criteria for LRIP if appropriate
•Acquisition Decision Memorandum
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| Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) |
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•Purpose: Complete manufacturing development; produce minimum quantities for IOT&E, to establish initial production base, and to permit orderly ramp-up to full-rate production.
•Enter: System matured for production
•Key Activities:
–Intensive Production Representative testing: DT, full-up system level LFT&E and IOT&E
–Update support and deployment plans
–Prepare RFP for full-rate production
–Prepare for Full-Rate Production Decision Review (FRPDR)
–Update: all information requirements.
•Exit: System operationally effective, suitable and ready for full rate production
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