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File Number: NPS-PM-04-017
Author: David Matthews
Title: The New Joint Capabilities Integration Development System
(JCIDS) and Its Potential Impacts upon Defense Program Managers
Published: December 2004
Sponsored by: Acquisition
Chair, Naval Postgraduate
School
Full Text URL:
http://www.acquisitionresearch.net/_files/FY2004/NPS-PM-04-017.pdf
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Abstract:
The June 2003 release of the radically-revised CJCSI
3170.01C and CJCSM 3170.01 promulgating the new Joint Capabilities Integration
Development System (JCIDS) literally turned the legacy Service-initiated Requirements
Generation System (RGS) upside down. The
decades-old “threat-driven,” “bottom-up” development process of
warfare-materiel requirements was summarily replaced by a “revolutionary,”
“capabilities-driven,” “top-down” process.
The author provides an analysis, from a Program Manager’s (PM)
perspective, of the potential impacts of these changes upon the acquisition
community in four distinct areas: Continuity with Service legacy requirements generation expertise, PM management challenges when other PMs are responsible
for supplying critical subsystems and components that will enable satisfaction
of Key Performance Parameters, Total
Ownership Cost implications of deploying multiple, low-density materiel configurations,
and potential disconnections between
Presidential Budget Requests and Congressional enactment.
Keywords: Project
Management, Program Management, JCIDS, Requirements Generation
About the Author:
David F. Matthews,
Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business & Public Policy and Colonel U.S. Army (Ret.) B.A. 1966, M.A.
1974. COL Matthews is a graduate of the
U.S Army Command and General Staff College,
the U.S. Army War College, and the Defense
Systems Management
College. An Ordnance Corps logistician for the first
two decades of his career, he served successively in the office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Logistics, HQ, Department of the Army; Chief of the
Logistics Division, Multiple Launch Rocket System Project Management Office;
Commander of the U.S. Army logistics and materiel acquisition organization
assisting in the modernization of the Royal Saudi Land Forces; and finally, as
Project Manager, Army Tactical Missile System from 1990-1994. During the latter assignment, he was selected
to receive the Secretary of the Army’s 1991 Project Manager of the Year
Award. In June 2003, and again in
December 2004, he was selected to receive the Meyer Award for
Teaching Excellence in Systems Engineering. He has served for the past
ten years as a Senior Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate
School, teaching Project
Management and Defense Systems Acquisition.
David Matthews
Senior Lecturer
Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA 93943
Phone: (831) 656-2360
E-mail:
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The
research presented in this report was supported by the Acquisition Chair of the
Graduate School
of Business & Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate
School.
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Acquisition Research or to become a research sponsor, please contact:
RADM
James B. Greene, USN, (Ret), Acquisition Chair
Tel:
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