ABSTRACT
In the summer of 2006, a government agency invited a study team to apply the Profiler to one of its key acquisition programs. The agency director and deputy director were well aware that their agency faced a number of challenges that were impacting their ability to achieve their mission and execute their acquisition responsibilities within the planned resources and schedule. Moreover, they recognized that their agency was operating in a complex political and economic environment and faced not only these, but also a number of operational and technical challenges. They had been trying to communicate the unique circumstances and constraints facing their program, but believed that they had not been as successful in doing this as they had hoped.
