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Navy Acquisition Can Easily Be Fixed

Marv's Smart Future

Long acquisition programs also insure that nobody in the acquisition system is personally responsible for failure because a Program Manager’s (PM) 3-4-year leadership tour only covers a portion of the full requirement-to-IOC (Initial Operational Capability) timeline. Driven by peer naval competition from Russia and China, the U.S.

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Meta-methodology

The Programmer's Paradox

To be complete, a methodology should cover every step of the process from gathering all necessary information about the problem to deploying and operating the solution in a production environment. A methodology is so necessary that a bad one is often better than nothing. A constantly shifting landscape is not a suitable foundation for building on.