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<i>We're going back to the Future...Way Back. The correct conclusion to arrive at is not that some management organizations are better than others. Rather, I would observe that there is no substitute for experienced, self motivated people (in govt. and industry) that will get the job done in spite of management organization shortcomings. I'm having deja vu over past program management slogans. Reminisce with me: Zero Defects, Total Quality Management, Integrated Product Teams, ISO 9000, Six Sigma. Anybody have any favorites of their own? I'm about to hurl.</i>


<b>Acquisitions Should Go 'Back to the Future,' </b>General Says (Posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2004)
[Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, Sept. 15, 2004]

The U.S. Air Force/Department of Defense's acquisition system needs to go "back to the future" to improve its speed and efficiency, a retired lieutenant general's study has concluded.

Speaking at the Air Force Association's Air & Space Conference in Washington on Sept. 14, Lt. Gen. Dick Scofield (USAF-Ret.) said his study shows similarities in speed and effectiveness between three program developments in the Defense Acquisition System and parallel Air Force acquisition system of the 1970s and two aerospace companies' current direct commercial sales to foreign nations that did not fall under DAS reforms of the past 30 years.

<u>The three program developments cited favorably are the F-15A, the A-10A and the F-16A, and the direct commercial sales were by Boeing of the F-16K and Lockheed Martin of the F-16 Block 60, an executive summary of the study provided at the conference says. </u>

Organizational and policy changes have started the Air Force in the right direction, but changes also are needed in the way the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Congress manage Air Force programs, the study says.

"OSD and Congress have to be willing to reduce their involvement in directing the execution of individual programs, as well as the amount of information they request during the development and early production phases of the programs," the study says.

"Small teams with sufficient management authority, minimal reporting requirements and the necessary resources is the successful operating model," the study says.

- Andy Savoie




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Tee Hee, There is no F16K from Boeing,

It is the F15K (korea) Boeing/Macair

"The power to Destroy the planet, is insignifigant to the power of the Air Force----Mudd Vader