Contracting processes and structures for systems‐of‐systems acquisition

Rendon, Rene G.; Huynh, Thomas V.; Osmundson, John S.

doi:10.1002/sys.21214

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“…142 In turn, those contracting practices may not follow actual DOD policy (known as "policy without practice") and may be fueled by soft factors such as a lack of trust between the DOD and major contractors. 143 For example, speeding up ship repair timelines depends on the DOD fixing its own routines for coordinating with contractors or fixing suboptimal relationships with contractors. 144 While bureaucratic constraints do exist among the Big Six, given the DOD's byzantine bureaucratic routines, it is likely that the binding constraint typically lies on the DOD side.…”

Section: Evolution Of the Mws Innovation Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

Dew¹,

Lewis²

2022

ExpwMCUP

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Defense innovation systems (DIS) have become an important analytic concept in defense policy circles in recent years. DIS are networks of interacting agents involved in the generation, diffusion, and utilization of defense-related technologies supported by local institutional infrastructures. This notion can be a valuable addition to one’s arsenal of tools for understanding aspects of great power competition between the United States and China. The DIS construct draws attention to competition between the United States and China being fundamentally a contest between different innovation systems. This adds an important perspective to policy debates because it broadens the analysis of competition away from particular elements and toward the overall systems involved, including global technological systems, dual-use technologies, and civilian elements that are important components of nearly all innovation systems. Furthermore, while U.S. industrial policy may have historically hidden it, the DIS construct draws attention to the intensive management and networking activities by U.S. Department of Defense elements involved in organizing the generation, diffusion, and utilization of defense-related technologies. For China, the DIS construct helps shed a bright light on the civilian-military fusion that has been a bedrock of China’s international competitive strategy.

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Section: Evolution Of the Mws Innovation Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

Dew¹,

Lewis²

2022

ExpwMCUP

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“…The US Coast Guard’s Deep-water System and the Joint Tactical Radio System, for example, involved the integration of a legacy system and a new software radio system under development. The integration faced serious challenges such as budget overruns and failure to meet cost, schedule and performance objectives (Rendon et al , 2012). Such integration requires not only the alignment of different systems but also collaboration and consistency in the evaluation and the contract administration processes.…”

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“…However, careful planning is almost impossible if IT systems have critical technologies that are not fully mature or well defined at the start of the contracting process. By the time the technology is fully developed, the total acquisition cost is considerably higher and the acquisitions experience significant schedule overruns and performance shortfalls (Rendon et al , 2012).…”

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Procurement maturity and IT failures in the public sector

Hua

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to investigate disastrous failures in high-value, high-risk IT procurement among US public agencies. The goal is to understand the cause of the failures and explore the role of procurement in IT public investments. Design/methodology/approach The establishment of the maturity model is based on the relevant literature review and IT procurement failures at four different US public agencies. The data is gathered through multiple sources, including documents, archival records and interviews. Findings The findings add to the public procurement literature and highlight the catalyst role of procurement maturity in the success of IT public procurement. They also call for public agencies to grow procurement maturity and increase procurement impact throughout the procurement process. Research limitations/implications The proposed model was primarily based on four Information Technology (IT) procurement failures. Investigations on IT procurement successes and on a larger scale are necessary to further validate and expand the model. Practical implications The proposed model can help public agencies identify where they are in their IT procurement journey and formulate plans to reduce the likelihood of IT procurement failure. Social implications The proposed model helps public agencies achieve IT procurement success, which leads to timely policy implementation, huge federal savings and better use of taxpayer money. Originality/value This paper provides an effective framework for public agencies seeking to overcome high-value high-risk IT procurement challenges and achieve IT procurement success.

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“…Contracting processes and structures for SoS acquisition are studied in Rendon et al [] to identify effective contracting structures for the purpose of increasing the probability of SoS acquisition success. A web‐based collaborative system is proposed in Huynh et al [2011] to facilitate collaboration among individual system programs in SoS acquisition.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…SoS engineers often assume that SoS participants will exhibit nominal behavior but deviation from nominal behavior leads to complications and disturbances in system behavior [Dauby and Upholzer, ]. One of the leading problems in SoS acquisition is identified as the lack of collaboration between individual systems and the SoS program management [Huynh, Osmundson, and Rendon, 2011; Rendon, Huynh, and Osmundson, ]. This is especially a major problem in acknowledged SoS where there is a designated SoS manager and SoS Engineering team but the manager/team does not have complete authority over the constituent systems.…”

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Incentive‐Based Negotiation Model for System of Systems Acquisition

Kilicay‐Ergin

Dağli

2015

Systems Engineering

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Lack of collaboration between individual systems and system of systems (SoS) program management is identified as one of the leading problems in SoS acquisition. This is especially a major concern in acknowledged SoS where a designated SoS program management has no authority over the constituent systems. Therefore, it is important to consider mechanisms to persuade individual systems to participate in the SoS development. In SoS where individual systems have their own self-interests, negotiation becomes an important mechanism to increase participation in SoS development. Another mechanism, incentives, is used in a wide range of applications to improve performance and collaboration. In this paper, an incentive based negotiation model is outlined as a mechanism to increase participation of individual systems into the SoS development. The negotiation model is integrated into an SoS Engineering and Architecting multilevel model referred to as Flexible & Intelligent Learning Architectures for SoS (FILA-SoS). Various aspects of SoS acquisition are modeled in the FILA-SoS including SoS metaarchitecture generation, evaluation as well as negotiation between SoS and individual systems. Individual systems exhibit behaviors, ranging from selfish to cooperative. The negotiation model is demonstrated on an SoS engineering application: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) SoS acquisition case where a desired meta-architecture is selected for negotiation, and incentives are determined for systems based on deviation from the desired meta-architecture quality. The analyses of the results from this application domain provide insights into how incentives can be used by decision makers to increase participation in SoS engineering and development. C⃝ 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng 18: 310-321, 2015

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Contracting processes and structures for systems‐of‐systems acquisition

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation

Procurement maturity and IT failures in the public sector

Incentive‐Based Negotiation Model for System of Systems Acquisition

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