Why try to push technology again?
The government has a new weapon, the Defense Acquisition Management Framework (DAMF). The DAMF is a collection of systems engineering 'best practices' throughout the lifecycle of a system to ensure that a cost-effective solution is selected (from an analysis of alternatives) and its development is managed.
While some workforces fear efficiency that speaks of downsizing, reorganizing, and outsourcing, this model is altruistic in that all stakeholders will receive more of everything! The DAMF process model guides decision makers to choose the right products to develop and increases the liklihood that the project won't be cancelled. Therefore the government will likely get more toys, the country will experience more productivity, and contributors will experience more success and satisfaction in the workplace.
The objective decision process ensures a careful evaluation of alternative solutions and technologies.
Associated Press December 03, 2007WASHINGTON - The U.S. is pursuing a multibillion-dollar program to develop the next generation of spy satellites, the first major effort of its kind since the Pentagon canceled the ambitious and costly Future Imagery Architecture system two years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
The new system, known as BASIC, would be launched by 2011 and is expected to cost $2 billion to $4 billion, according to U.S. officials familiar with the program. They discussed details on condition of anonymity because the information is classified.
Photo reconnaissance satellites are used to gather visual information from space about adversarial governments and terror groups, such as construction at suspected nuclear sites or militant training camps. Satellites also can be used to survey damage from hurricanes, fires and other natural disasters.
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U.S. commercial satellites currently can make out the outline of 2-foot-long object from space. In April, a satellite will be launched with the ability to see a 16-inch object.
We would look forward to reviewing any new government acquisition request since we give the ...
The new system, known as BASIC, would be launched by 2011 and is expected to cost $2 billion to $4 billion, according to U.S. officials familiar with the program. They discussed details on condition of anonymity because the information is classified.
Photo reconnaissance satellites are used to gather visual information from space about adversarial governments and terror groups, such as construction at suspected nuclear sites or militant training camps. Satellites also can be used to survey damage from hurricanes, fires and other natural disasters.
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U.S. commercial satellites currently can make out the outline of 2-foot-long object from space. In April, a satellite will be launched with the ability to see a 16-inch object.
We would look forward to reviewing any new government acquisition request since we give the ...
The Defense Department spends about $20 billion annually on space programs.
Space Based Space Surveillance milestones
shooting down a deorbiting spy satellite
Here is a missle development entering the LRIP phase.
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http://www.bmpcoe.org/library/books/dsmc%203000r4/index.html
...is this (link) the best translation (one can hope for) of the cryptic "Integrated Defense Acquisition & Life Cycle Management Framework" chart on the web?
Thanks for the question. I needed the answer as well.
Ideally, the Defense Acquisition Guidebook (DAG- https://akss.dau.mil/dag/help_welcome.asp) will advise all teammembers on their respective roles in the lifecycle. You will recognize concepts from the chart immediately on ppg 5,9,105,113, 122.
"There is a problem with this website's security certificate," is the message I get when I try your link, as is the case with most of the sites on the DAG avail. on the web.
...so is the (above) link I found, the best translation of the chart avail.--short of purchasing the book itself?
Perhaps a better question is needed here. How does the chart help to illustrate your piont? Is this chart used to explain how or why the Defense Dept. spends taxpayer money? What can the lay-person gain from looking at this (confounding) chart?
As is the case with most pionts of inquiry, the closer we look at a particular subject the more complex it becomes. The difficult part of this idea is to simplify the complexity--making a complex idea simple, is not easy.
"The DAMF process model guides decision makers to choose the right products to develop and increases the liklihood that the project won't be cancelled. Therefore the government will likely get more toys, the country will experience more productivity, and contributors will experience more success and satisfaction in the workplace."
...is the "model" here the chart? Is the chart the "new weapon" you speak of?
...after rereading my questions I can't help but laugh. It should be clear by now that I have no grasp of the topic at hand & all I'm left to do is ask these silly questions about this perplexing (although somewhat aesthetically pleasing) chart that has little (or no significance) to my everyday existence, yet I continue to ask & ask what the hell it means & continue to search online (& pick my brain) for a meaning or a scrap of meaning that can help me figure out something that will remain a riddle long after I leave this blog & even if it were explained to me in the most elementary way, I couldn't even begin to pray for a meaning, or a justification for my endless inquiry & while I pray to know, I'll never come close to having any chance to cry out loud to anyone who will listen to my heart-felt desire to understand the truth that lingers underneath the surface of this diagram (chart, model or WHATEVER you call the damn thing) that should explain the reason for any DoD purchasing or reasoning for who-knows-what. I'll never know, I'll never know, I can't know.......HELP ME FIGURE THIS OUT......PLEASE.......WILL someone in cyberspace HELP my poor soul to understand the truth behind the MADNESS, this INSANITY that MOCKS my inner core, that taunts my very BEING & tears understanding to SHREADS of PERPLEXITY.........HELP ME!!!!
Aurelio - i feel your pain. Of course, I am not a "project manager", so should not be expected to ever understand.
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