{"id":192664,"date":"2009-03-07T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/stating-the-blatantly-obvious-defense-procurement-edition\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:56:00","slug":"stating-the-blatantly-obvious-defense-procurement-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/stating-the-blatantly-obvious-defense-procurement-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Stating the Blatantly Obvious: Defense Procurement Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we are now seeing procurement experts suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/03\/05\/experts-tout-cost-as-requirement-fix\/\">cost be made a formal requirement on major procurement programs<\/a>, the technical term is Key Performance Parameter (KPP), to which I would add schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, this would mean that going over budget <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">at all<\/span> would be grounds for termination for cause (no money) as opposed to a termination for convenience (cost plus).<\/p>\n<p>I would in fact suggest that cost and schedule be made &#8220;super-requirements,&#8221; and that other requirements would be subordinate to them.<\/p>\n<p>What this would mean is that we would not procure immature technologies, and that the costs would be known at the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">start<\/span> of a program, which would prevent the 20+ year F-22\/JSF type hideously expensive procurement debacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we are now seeing procurement experts suggesting that cost be made a formal requirement on major procurement programs, the technical term is Key Performance Parameter (KPP), to which I would add schedule. Among other things, this would mean that going over budget at all would be grounds for termination for cause (no money) as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}