An Enterprise Cost-Effectiveness Approach to Decisionmaking: Improving Analytic Support to Senior Defense Leaders

Drawing from subject-matter expertise, a literature analysis, and a tabletop exercise, the authors highlight key insights about the ongoing defense analytic problem and its enduring challenges. The authors propose analytic and programmatic frameworks to explore potential cost-per-effect measures, assess those measures with an enterprise cost-effectiveness approach, and chart a roadmap to include a joint focus in future Air Force decisionmaking.