Speaking with a Commonality Language

As the U.S. Army becomes increasingly interested in "commonality"--the sharing of common parts across different entities--there is a need for a clearer definition of the concept. Motivated by the reported costs arising from a lack of clear definitions during recent Army acquisition processes and by cases in which unclear definitions have led to significant problems, this report offers a new, more rigorous lexicon and illustrative examples.Newsome, Bruce is the author of 'Speaking with a Commonality Language', published 2007 under ISBN 9780833041807 and ISBN 0833041800.