Report
Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 1
Nov 7, 2011
Acquiring and deploying space systems in a timely, affordable manner is important to U.S. national security but for years, Department of Defense (DoD) space programs have experienced large cost growth, schedule delays, and technical problems. Although these issues have been mostly resolved, DoD should apply lessons learned from past experience as it plans for the next-generation space systems, especially in the current fiscal environment.
Past Problems and Future Challenges
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Acquiring and deploying space systems in a timely, affordable manner is important to U.S. national security but for years, Department of Defense (DoD) space programs have experienced large cost growth, schedule delays, and technical problems. Although these issues have been mostly resolved, DoD should apply lessons learned from past experience as it plans for the next-generation space systems, especially in the current fiscal environment. The authors analyze the performance of selected DoD space programs in terms of cost growth, schedule delays, and on-orbit performance over the course of their program histories spanning from 1996 to 2012; identify key factors that contributed to cost growth, schedule overruns, and technical problems; characterize the current status of these programs; and identify future acquisition challenges that next-generation space systems might face.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Review of Selected DoD Space Programs
Chapter Three
Effects of the 1990s' Space Acquisition Environmental Factors on the Programs
Chapter Four
Space Acquisition Challenges and Space Enterprise Management Issues
Chapter Five
Recent Progress and Future Challenges in DoD Space Acquisition
Chapter Six
Conclusions
Appendix A
List of Interviews
Appendix B
Projecting Defense Space System Budget Growth: Issues of Inflation Index Selection
This report was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis (PARCA) office and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community.
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