Talk:Defense Acquisition Guide

Why History ???
This Talk page starts saying this is within Military History -- seems odd, I'd call it more of a current Program Management or DoD item. Anyone think it should move ? Markbassett (talk) 23:41, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Foreword from the DAG
I'm able to find many cites to the DAG, but not many discussions of it's history and contect. The DAG forword (previously in article but deleted) describes it's purpose:


 * The Defense Acquisition System exists to manage the Nation's investments in technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve the National Security Strategy and support the United States Armed Forces. In that context, our continued objective is to rapidly acquire quality products that satisfy user needs with measurable improvements to mission capability at a fair and reasonable price. The fundamental principles and procedures that the Department follows in achieving those objectives are described in DoD Directive 5000.01 and DoD Instruction 5000.02.


 * The Defense Acquisition Guidebook is designed to complement those policy documents by providing the acquisition workforce with discretionary best practice that should be tailored to the needs of each program.


 * Acquisition professionals should use this Guidebook as a reference source supporting their management responsibilities. As an "on-line" resource, the information is limited only by the user's interest or need. Some chapters contain general content; they provide individual topic discussions and describe processes and considerations that will improve the effectiveness of program planning. Some chapters may provide a tutorial on the application of these topics to the acquisition framework. Depending on the subject matter, a chapter may contain general background information, tutorial discussions, and/or discussions of the detailed requirements for each milestone decision and phase. All chapters contain non-mandatory staff expectations for satisfying the mandatory requirements in DoD Instruction 5000.02


 * Each chapter is designed to improve understanding of the acquisition process and ensure adequate knowledge of the statutory and regulatory requirements associated with the process. Discussions, explanations, and electronic links to related information enable the "reader" to be efficient, effective, innovative, and disciplined, and to responsively provide warfighting capability. Each chapter lists potential ways the program manager or assigned manager can satisfy mandatory process requirements and meet staff expectations for other activities. Differences of view regarding discretionary practice will be resolved by the Milestone Decision Authority.

Language 'the Defense Acquisition Guidebook is designed to' is repeated in CiteSeer http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.182.4354 and used in books that provide subject expertise and refer to DAG as an authority for doing such a best practices book. Markbassett (talk) 23:38, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Title wrong
The article is mistitled -- Defense Acquisition Guide versus the text title is Defense Acquisition Guidebook. Any objections to changing title ? Markbassett (talk) 14:08, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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