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| Identify three Acquisition Management Document Categories addressed by Title X, U.S. Code. |
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Acquisition POLICY Documents
Acquisition MANAGEMENT Documents
Acquisition REPORTING Documents |
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| Acquisition POLICY Documents |
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Laws, Directives, Policies and
Regulations designed to provide guidance to the PM and controls to the Acquisition Process |
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| Acquisition MANAGEMENT Documents |
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Actively used by Acquisition Professionals to assist in monitoring , managing and decision making |
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| Acquisition REPORTING Documents |
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Used primarily by high level decision makers to maintain visibility over high cost programs |
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| Major Themes of the 2003 Revision of the DoD Series (5 total) |
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Flexibility - Tailoring
Responsiveness - Evolutionary
Innovation – Business Practices
Discipline - Goals
Streamlined – Decentralization and Empowerment |
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| 3 characteristics of an Acquisition Strategy |
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1. Overarching Strategy – A PM’s Roadmap through the Acquisition Process
2. A PM’s high-level business and technical management approach designed to achieve program objectives within specified resource constraints.
3. Provides an integrated master schedule (Program Structure)
4. Evolves through an iterative process
5. Tailored for each program
6. Structured to achieve stability by minimizing risk |
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Acquisition Program Baseline
A "Contract" between the PM, SAE, and DAE on what the state of the Weapon System should be during each phase |
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| What 3 program parameters are documented in an APB? |
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Performance Thresholds
Schedule
Key Cost |
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| When is the APB updated and formally brief/approved? |
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The APB is updated and briefed at each Milestone Decision Brief |
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System Threat Assessment.
it is the basic authoritative threat assessment, required for all ACAT I programs, tailored for and focused on, a particular U.S. major defense system |
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| What is the purpose of the STA |
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| It describes the threat to be countered in the projected threat environment. |
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| The threat information references Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) validated documents. |
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| Defense Acquisition Executive Summary |
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| What is the purpose of DAES? |
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| to highlight both potential and actual program problems to the USD(AT&L) before they become significant. |
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| Who submits the DAES? To whom? When? |
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| When directed by the USD(AT&L), the DAES is submitted quarterly by the PM. Typically DoD internal. |
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| Select Acquisition Report |
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| What is the purpose of the SAR? |
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| provides standard, comprehensive summary reporting of cost, schedule, and performance information for major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs), both ACAT IC and D, within the Department of Defense (DoD) and to Congress |
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| Who submits the SAR? To whom? When? |
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| Annual or Quarterly Summary submission by the PM to SECDEF, and eventually to Congress. |
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| What are the 2 major external Program Reports? |
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| Materiel Development Decision |
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| What is the purpose of the MDD? |
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| At the Materiel Development Decision review, the Joint Staff presents the JROC recommendations and the DoD Component presents the ICD including: the preliminary concept of operations, a description of the needed capability, the operational risk, and the basis for determining that non-materiel approaches will not sufficiently mitigate the capability gap. |
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| What does the MDA approve in the MDD |
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AoA study guidance
Determines the acquisition phase of entry
Identifies the initial review milestone
Designates the Lead DoD Component
Approves the Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) |
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The MDD is the formal entry point into the acquisition process and is mandatory for all programs.
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| A mutually binding legal relationship obligating the seller to furnish the supplies or services (including construction) and the buyer to pay for them. |
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| Responsibility of Contracting Officer |
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Providing procurement support to the PM. Authority derived from FAR
Only individual authorized to legally bind the Govts in contractual obligations.
Has authority to enter into, administer, & terminate contracts |
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Risk rests mainly with the contractor in Fixed Price Contracts.
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Fixed Price Contracts are used when risk of performance is High.
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Fixed Price Contracts are used when risk of performance is high.
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| Establishes and defines in clear, understandable terms what the contractor must do (non-performance specification requirements) and what goods or services are to be provided for the contractor to get paid |
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| Establishes and defines in clear, understandable terms what the contractor must do (non-performance specification requirements) and what goods or services are to be provided for the contractor to get paid |
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