Report on Program and Acquisition Management in Defense

This report provides an overview of program and acquisition management, specifically within the context of defense. It discusses the acquisition process as transforming needs into products and services, encompassing planning, contracting, and program management. The report highlights the role of defense acquisition systems in managing investments for national security, and how the Department of Defense (DoD) restructures its acquisition technology to improve military speed. It emphasizes the importance of careful preparation, program development, and resource determination within the DoD framework. The report also touches on the importance of joint program management, international strategies, and the adoption of commercial specifications and standards to enhance acquisition processes and address global threats. The report references relevant literature and resources to support its analysis of the subject.

RUNNING HEAD: Program and Acquisition Management
Program and Acquisition Management
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Learning Objectives 2
The acquisition is explained as a procedure of transforming individuals needs into
products, services, and the information gathered is required to fulfill their requirements (Mark,
2000). It pertains scheming, planning, contracting, program management and logistics needed to
support an enterprise. Therefore, defense acquisition systems arise to manage the investments in
technology and programs to achieve National security.
Defensive Acquisition has provided a framework for conducting Public Relation Service
assisting program managers and Department of Defense in preparing the decision. Department of
Defense restructures the acquisition technology to improve the military speed (Garamone, 2017).
It has been well directed by the National Defense Act that emphasizes the reorganization of the
office that is of undersecretary, technology, and logistics and submits with detailed information
of the process. Defense Department also facilitates planning, programming, budgeting, and
Execution of system. Therefore, it is a DoD process for careful preparation, developing the
program, and determination of resources. It is most significant to enable craft planning and
programming that meets all demands of the national security tactics despite lack of enough
resources. (Defense Acquisition program support methodology, n.d.). Defense Operations
enhances the workplace of a subordinate official for the defense of the accession, logistics, and
technology that boost decision-making process for major defense acquisition program through
quality engineering and program assessment support. This facilitates approval of the
recommended program objective programs. As a result, it promotes successful operation of the
program through recommendations of the independent actions of the government program
management. Thus, the Joint managers are advised to learn the COCOM rationale for significant
programs to access wide area and be sensitive the operations of environmental components. It
also enhances adoption of the methodology that ensures that all PRS are conducted using a

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consistent approach and that it addresses all the relevant areas. This department also provides
acquisition management systems that are known as life cycle it determines the mission needs,
research, development support, and disposal. It thus sustains some considerations that include
supply maintenance and data management. Through DoD, Personnel performance is more
accessible to evaluate. The joint program management provides the evaluation of the members of
Joint Program Operations hence allowing one to follow the rules and regulations international
organizations. The more useful ground should be adapted to provide flexibility to enable
implementation approaches to be taken. It also aims in Provision of the ways of solving disputes,
whereby there are disagreements, and it is beyond the program manager and the joint program
operations, the international strategy will be adopted as it focuses on promoting allied weapons
and IT capability through multi-national agreements. Therefore, Sensitivity to the participating
components that includes operations in the environment should be considered to help in fair
solving of the conflict.
The DoD is aiming in recognition of acquisitions as evidenced by commercials
specifications and standards. Thus, this indicates new acquisition knowledge is required to
improve the pace and scope of acquisition. Therefore, it needs to attract the top national talent to
enhance the unpredictable global threat in the united states (Acquisition, Technology, and
Logistics, 2017).

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