11.3. Integrated Program Management
The program manager should obtain integrated cost and schedule performance data at an appropriate level of summarization to monitor program execution. The program manager should require contractors and government activities to use internal management control systems that accomplish the following:
- Relate time-phased budgets to specific tasks identified in the statement of work;
- Produce data that indicate work progress;
- Properly relate cost, schedule, and technical accomplishment; and
- Produce data that is valid, timely, and auditable.
Unless waived by the Milestone Decision Authority, the program manager should require that the management control systems used to plan and control contract performance comply with American National Standards Institute/Electronic Industries Alliance Standard 748, Earned Value Management Systems (ANSI/EIA-748 (see DoD Instruction 5000.02) in accordance with paragraph 11.3.1.1.. The program manager should not impose a specific system or method of management control or require a contractor to change its system, provided it complies with ANSI/EIA-748.
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