This study helps determine why Navy military specifications and standards reform (MSSR) was not completed within budget or in accordance with a self-imposed schedule. The report defines the status of Navy reforms, looks for reasons why the Navy missed its self-imposed reform completion date, describes primary options for completing the reforms, and identifies steps RAND could take to help the Navy choose among these options.
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This RAND documented briefing (DB) describes a RAND study conducted in response to a November 1998 Navy request for help in determining why its military specifications and standards reform (MSSR) efforts appeared to be underfunded. The study had four objectives: first, to define the status of Navy military specification and standards reform as of approximately December 1998; second, to find possible explanations for why, as of December 1998, the Navy had not met its self-imposed target date for MSSR completion; third, to describe the primary options for MSSR completion available to the Navy's Acquisition Reform (AR) Office; and fourth, to suggest further steps RAND might take to inform the Navy's choice of options. From December 1998 through March 1999, interviews and data collection efforts were undertaken with personnel from the Navy AR Office, NAVSEA, and NAVAIR. In addition, officials in the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Defense Logistics Agency, and Office of the Secretary of Defense were interviewed. Initial analysis and assessment of the data was completed by end-February 1999, and findings were presented to the sponsor in the form of a briefing on 5 March 1999. RAND's initial findings were accepted by the sponsor, and one of the options chosen as the solution to completing implementation of Navy Mil-Spec reform. As a result, the sponsor invited RAND to attend a meeting of the SYSCOM standardization executives on 16 July 1999 in order to present the findings and assist in implementation approaches as needed. This DB documents the briefing which was presented to Navy officials at both the March and July 1999 meetings. This research was conducted for the U.S. Navy Acquisition Reform Executive within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of RAND's National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, and the defense agencies.
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Mark A. Lorell is a senior analyst in the international studies group at RAND whose research interests include weapon system acquisition policies and force structure modernization, and Japanese, Korean and NATO military force structure planning/issues, among other international policy studies.
Jeffrey A. Drezner (Ph.D., Political Science, Claremont Graduate University) ia a Social Scientist at RAND.
Julia F. Lowell (Ph.D., Economics (1992) University of California, Berkeley) is an Economist at RAND, Santa Monica, CA.
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