Reports & White Papers
Defense Acquisitions	Getting Defense Acquisitions RIGHT by Frank Kendal	Book by the Honorable Frank Kendal
Defense Acquisitions	Defense Acquisition Workforce Report to Congress – 2016	by Congressional Research Service
Cost Overruns	Cost Overrun Optimism: Fact or Fiction	DAU article by Maj David Christensen, USAF
OSS&E	Using Measurement to Assure Operational Safety, Suitability, and Effectiveness (OSS&E) Compliance for the C2 Product Line	This paper discusses the role measurement must play in the OSS&E assurance process, and offers guidance to develop effective measures.
Performance-Based Agreements	Performance Agreements as a Critical Component of Performance Based Logistics	This paper discusses the development of Performance-Based Agreements (PBA) by outlining their current intent, contents, and structure.
System Security Engineering	Systems Security Engineering: A Critical Discipline of Systems Engineering, INCOSE
Requirements Development	Requirements Development, Verification, and Validation Exhibited in Famous Failures by A. Terry Bahill and Steven J. Henderson	This paper describes these tasks and then discusses famous systems where these tasks were done correctly and incorrectly. This paper shows examples of the differences between developing requirements, verifying requirements, validating requirements, verifying a system, and validating a system.
Modeling & Simulation	JHU APL Best Practices for the Development of M&A, June 10
	Introduction to Modeling and Simulation by Anu Maria
	Introduction to Modeling and Simulation	A basic introduction to Modeling & Simulation principals.
Technology Development	FAR 31.205-18, R&D and B&P Cost by Karen L. Manos
Program Management	Alternative Systems Review
	The Optimal Program Structure	Program structure question answered by Frank Kendall, acting Director of AT&L
Total Quality Management	Using Total Quality Management to Improve Quality, Cost and Productivity by Bill Motley
Earned Value Management	Delteck EVM Best Practices White Paper	The purpose of this white paper is to describe some best practices – gleaned from over thirty years of experience – of an Earned Value Management approach to project management by Delteck.
Financial Management	DAU Liquidating “Progress Payments Based on Cost”
Technology Roadmap	Marie L. Garcia, Olin H. Bray (1997) “Fundamentals of Technology Road mapping” Sandia National Labs	The purpose of the white paper is to detail the steps for developing a technology roadmap.
Acquisition	Defense Acquisition Transformation Report to Congress, Fiscal Year 2007	A report to congress detailing the status of DoD acquisitions and recommendation on how to improve it.
Acquisitions	DBB Linking and Streamlining the Defense Requirements, Acquisition, and Budget Process, 2012	The Defense Business Board just issued a report on reforming Defense Acquisition, Budget, and Requirements processes.
Space Acquisitions	AFSPC Resiliency and Disaggregated Space Architectures	This paper examines the need to provide resilient and affordable capabilities to preserve our operational advantage in space. The focus is on “disaggregating” space capabilities onto multiple platforms or systems.
Industrial Base	Sustaining the U.S. Defense Industrial Base as a Strategic Asset	This study provides a diagnosis of the military competitions most likely to dominate military relationships between the United States and prospective adversaries over the next decade or two, and the corresponding Defense Industrial Base competencies where the U.S. military will need to sustain advantage.