Does EVMS serve any other purpose than to justify cost overruns?
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a complicated system for measuring baseline plans, actual costs, and technical progress on large, complex defense contracts. It evolved from […]
Ernest Fitzgerald
Rumbles on the Columbia-class submarine
Current Navy plans call for construction on the first of 12 Columbia-class nuclear-armed submarines to begin in 2021, with an overall price tag of $128 billion. But […]
Effects of performance management systems
The unfortunate results of imposing management control systems on contractors was that they then felt obligated to operate two systems in parallel. The contractors used […]
In memory of Ernest Fitzgerald
Ernie Fitzgerald, described in the pages of the Washington Post as “America’s best-known whistle blower,” was also “the most hated person in the Air Force,” according to Verne Orr, secretary of […]