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Does the program manager matter?

December 28, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

If PMs indeed can have little influence over program outcomes, it is unreasonable to hold them fully accountable for those outcomes; however, this opposes NPM’s approach that has guided defense acquisition for more than two decades.

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