Exercise: Performance Measurement

A$-12$ Avenger II Program

Background

Replacement for the US Navy's A$-6$ Intruder aircraft

January $1988,$ General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas were

awarded the full$-$scale development program

Contract

$6$ year fixed price incentive contracts

$5$ full$-$scale test articles; $8$ flight units

First flight schedule for June $17,1990$

What Happened

December $1989$ formal program review

Navy Program Manager declared program $"$on schedule, on cost$,$ on track"

Cost Performance Data provided starting in February $1989$

Data for April $1990,$ Millions of Dollars