Executive Summary
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) is a project taken by General Dynamics corporation. The project was a failure to 11 out of 14 test and went overbudget. The reason behind the failure concluded from no clarification and proper execution on the objective. When creating a schedule, it is recommended that the scope management is focused on identifying, conceptualizing, and implementing the objective. It also recommended that General Dynamics should use the Budget-Up method to not exceed the estimated cost.
Introduction
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) is a Marine Corps’ all terrain troop carrier vehicle designed to transport an assault team from the sea to nearby shores. The results of all the tests led to an unreliable prototype. The purpose of this report is to identify and analyze the main traits which have caused the EFV to become a failure. Once the problems are identified, a solution can be made and taken to consideration by companies doing similar projects so they won’t fall under the same steps of failure. Research has been made to help us identify the background history of general dynamics, the data of the EFV project, an overall analysis of the EFV project, and a recommendation.
Background …show more content…
General dynamics is a company whose headquarters are in Falls Church, Virginia. The company is known for their work on aerospace, marine systems, combat systems, and information systems technology which all relate to the EFV. General Dynamics Corporation has been involved in case involving the army and a similar project which they were assigned to develop prototypes for the Divisional Air Defense System. The Cost-Plus contract which General Dynamics agreed exceeded over $8,000,000. In our case, the EFV project had more than $8,000,000 invested into under a cost-plus
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) is a project taken by General Dynamics corporation. The project was a failure to 11 out of 14 test and went overbudget. The reason behind the failure concluded from no clarification and proper execution on the objective. When creating a schedule, it is recommended that the scope management is focused on identifying, conceptualizing, and implementing the objective. It also recommended that General Dynamics should use the Budget-Up method to not exceed the estimated cost.
Introduction
The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) is a Marine Corps’ all terrain troop carrier vehicle designed to transport an assault team from the sea to nearby shores. The results of all the tests led to an unreliable prototype. The purpose of this report is to identify and analyze the main traits which have caused the EFV to become a failure. Once the problems are identified, a solution can be made and taken to consideration by companies doing similar projects so they won’t fall under the same steps of failure. Research has been made to help us identify the background history of general dynamics, the data of the EFV project, an overall analysis of the EFV project, and a recommendation.
Background …show more content…
General dynamics is a company whose headquarters are in Falls Church, Virginia. The company is known for their work on aerospace, marine systems, combat systems, and information systems technology which all relate to the EFV. General Dynamics Corporation has been involved in case involving the army and a similar project which they were assigned to develop prototypes for the Divisional Air Defense System. The Cost-Plus contract which General Dynamics agreed exceeded over $8,000,000. In our case, the EFV project had more than $8,000,000 invested into under a cost-plus