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The Project Definition Phase and Maintainability
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Current Project Definition Phase doctrine is reviewed with special emphasis on maintainability and reliability (M&R) trade-offs within context of the “total system” required to produce a military capability and the total program lifetime cost of its achievement. It is held that while M&R policy is clear and enlightened, the tools required to put that policy into practice have yet to be perfected. As a result of forces now at work, it is argued that not only will the required M&R capability be perfected, but that breakthrough advances in the whole field of defense management should be expected.
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Massey, R., "The Project Definition Phase and Maintainability," SAE Technical Paper 640586, 1964, https://doi.org/10.4271/640586.Also In
References
- Department of Defense Directive 3200.9 of February 26, 1964, “Project Definition Phase.”
- Department of Defense “Incentive Contracting Guide,” prepared by the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logistics), 1963, Army FM 38–34, Navy NAVEX0S P-2451, Air Force AFP 70–1–5, P. 41.
- Ibid., p. 17.
- Ibid., pp. 38–9.
- Charles J. Hitch, “Economics and Military Operations Research,” in “Review of Economics and Statistics,” August 1958.
- “Incentive Contracting Guide,” op. cit., p. 52.
- Enthoven Alain and Rowen Henry, “Defense Planning and Organization,” available in “Public Finances: Needs, Sources and Utilization,” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), p. 390.
- Merton J. Peck and Frederic M. Scherer, “The Weapons Acquisition Process, An Economic Analysis.” Boston: Harvard Business School, 1962.