IG Calls For Acquisition Exit Criteria Improvements

By Dan Dupont / January 10, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Exit criteria, used to establish goals for major defense acquisition efforts, should be better tailored to the programs they support to give acquisition leaders the information they need to make milestone decisions, the Pentagon inspector general states in a new report. The IG reviewed the exit criteria of nine Defense Department programs and determined that seven were insufficient. "Milestone decision authorities did not ensure that program managers proposed program-specific exit criteria for use at the future milestone decision point(s)," the...

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