Using Metrics to Understand the Performance of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mckernan, Megan

Contributor:

Arena, Mark V.

Drezner, Jeffrey A.

Lewis, Austin

Mele, Judith D.

Moore, Nancy Young

Newberry, Sydne J.

Shokh, Yuliya

Wong, Jonathan P.

Language:

English

Place of Publication:

RAND Corporation 2022

Summary:

The Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) is intended to improve defense acquisition performance by designing pathways to accommodate the diversity of systems and services that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) acquires. As of 2022, the AAF consists of six pathways: Urgent Capability Acquisition, Middle Tier of Acquisition, Major Capability Acquisition, Software Acquisition, Defense Business Systems, and Acquisition of Services. For each pathway, the authors of this report identify an initial set of metrics that DoD can use to measure performance and assess whether the pathway is achieving its goals. The authors also identify challenges to identifying metrics, both within and across pathways.