Issue: The general officer and Director of a multi-billion dollar program faced repeated inquiries from Congress over why he did not manage his program like some "successful" historical programs.

Solution: Performed a detailed management and technical analysis of the historical programs and identified common characteristics between these programs. Most of the common attributes were either negative in nature or beyond the control of the program manager. The general officer and his staff used this information to address additional inquiries from Congress.

Issue: The contractor and government were at odds over the amount of attention paid to Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV) and its effectiveness on a multi-billion dollar program with very high DoD CAIV visibility.

Solution: Performed an independent assessment of the program’s CAIV activity. Identified and documented contractual CAIV requirements, the contractor's CAIV approach and progress made to date in implementing CAIV, and areas of miscommunication between the contractor and government. Developed recommendations for the contractor and government which could lead to improved CAIV effectiveness.

Issue: Several competing concepts were being evaluated to perform a series of missions, yet key engineering design characteristics and limitations of these concepts were largely unknown.

Solution: Guided the engineering design analysis of the competing concepts, which included developing a structured approach for evaluating each concept and identifying potential risk issues.

Issue: A business was using a flawed risk management process on a multi-billion dollar high visibility program, which prevented it from accurately prioritizing risk issues and allocating funds to handle risks.

Solution: Performed an independent assessment of the risk management process. Identified and documented flaws in the risk analysis methodology and provided solutions that permitted an accurate prioritization of risk issues and development of suitable risk handling options.

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Issue: Supporting technology programs were not focused to effectively assist the needs of a major development program.

Solution: Worked with the supporting technology program task managers to better focus the supporting technology programs to the potential needs of the major development program, including modifications induced by shifts in budget, schedule and design changes.