Dean H. Stanton · Selected Work
DoD Operations Research, Cost Analysis & Supply Chain Optimization
Defense acquisition consulting applying operations research, engineering economics, cost analysis, component and BOM analysis, capacity modeling, and supply-chain judgment to the AMRAAM acquisition environment.
Results
Results and contributions.
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Situation
Operating context
The DoD AMRAAM acquisition program required defensible analysis of contracts, proposals, components, production capacity, and supply-chain data to reduce cost without creating schedule or execution risk.
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Challenge
What made the work difficult
Cost opportunities had to be evaluated alongside capacity, lead time, quality, contractual, manufacturing, and schedule constraints in a large acquisition environment with fragmented proprietary data and multiple organizational stakeholders.
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Dean's role
Responsibility and authority
Dean served as a full-time engineering consultant supporting U.S. government acquisition activities. His work included cost and proposal analysis, component breakout, production modeling, data-system development, work-instruction development, and government-contractor liaison work.
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Actions
How the work moved forward
- Performed contract and proposal cost analysis using operations-research and engineering-economics methods.
- Analyzed components, BOMs, purchase history, production volume, capacity, operations, and lead-time constraints.
- Built spreadsheet and database tools to organize acquisition, BOM, purchase-order, and decision-support information.
- Supported liaison and integrated-team work across government, prime-contractor, manufacturing, contracts, purchasing, engineering, and supplier stakeholders.