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Project Portfolio Management: An Investigation Of One Air Force Product Center, Bryan D. Edmunds Mar 2005

Project Portfolio Management: An Investigation Of One Air Force Product Center, Bryan D. Edmunds

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Over the last two decades, reducing product development times in the DoD has been the focus of many committees, commissions, and research efforts. Despite the implementation of numerous recommendations, the DoD still struggles with long acquisition cycle times. This research is part of the Air Force Cycle Time Reduction Research Program (CTRRP), which grew out of the Cycle Time Reduction Action Plan, developed in 1998. This research focuses on the portfolio management (project selection and resource allocation) part of the CTRRP. The purpose of this research effort was to investigate the use of portfolio management within the Air Force. Specifically, …