Accession Number:

AD1023244

Title:

Turning "Desirements" into Requirements

Descriptive Note:

Journal Article

Corporate Author:

Defense Systems Management College Fort Belvoir United States

Personal Author(s):

• Court,Charles

Report Date:

2015-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

4.0

Abstract:

Because we are humans, everything we need either starts or finishes with something we want. As students, we could take the bus to school, but we wanted a car. Moreover, we did not want just any car. A Corvette, a Porsche or a Mustang would do much better. The author wanted the Aston Martin from the movie Goldfinger. You know The one with the ejection seat, automated license plates and electronic tracking. On the professional military level, the Services and agencies fall into the same trap. There are things we need, but many more things we want. Why settle for tanks, ships and aircraft if we could have cloaking devices, The Death Star, Mr. Fusion and phasers

Descriptors:

• aircraft industry
• aircraft equipment
• transport aircraft
• lessons learned
• aircraft carriers
• system software
• cost estimates
• systems management
• military acquisition
• department of defense
• management planning and control

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE