Methodologies in Analyzing the Root Causes of Nunn-Mccurdy Breaches

Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, to investigate root causes of overruns. Having conducted six analyses, the authors were able to develop a methodology for such analyses.