1.5 Key Attributes
(Revised 09/1999)
The Acquisition Management System embodies seven key attributes considered essential for
achieving good acquisition management. The seven attributes are:
- Effectiveness - the timely and cost-effective acquisition of products and
services that work well for the customer.
- Flexibility - the ability to make good decisions based on best practices for
particular circumstances rather than rigid adherence to standard procedures.
- Efficiency - simple processes and a competent workforce that achieve good
decisions without undue oversight or waste of resources.
- Checks and balances - a system of program boundaries and monitoring techniques
that identify and correct problems before they become unmanageable.
- Assurance of balance - a healthy tension between the pull of requirements and the
push of technology that enables the agency to best satisfy mission needs within realistic
resource constraints.
- Public trust - fairness and trust achieved through open and honest communications
with industry, the aviation community, and the public.
- Continuous process improvement – the systematic
ongoing activity to improve the capability, efficiency,and effectiveness of agency processes
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