Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation

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United States Department of Defense office government organization

The Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation is a senior U.S. Department of Defense organization responsible for providing independent analysis of defense programs, budgets, and costs to inform high-level strategic and resource decisions.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation	2
Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office	1
Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation	1
Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Department of Defense office ⓘ government organization ⓘ
advises	Deputy Secretary of Defense ⓘ United States Secretary of Defense ⓘ surface form: Secretary of Defense other senior Department of Defense leaders ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
focusesOn	cost-effectiveness of defense programs ⓘ long-term defense resource planning ⓘ trade-offs among defense capabilities ⓘ
goal	ensure affordability of defense programs ⓘ improve efficiency of defense spending ⓘ provide objective analytic support for strategic decisions ⓘ
hasAbbreviation	ODCAPE ⓘ
hasHead	Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
hasParentOrganization	Office of the Secretary of Defense ⓘ
hasPredecessor	Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation
hasShortName	Director, CAPE ⓘ Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
jurisdiction	United States government ⓘ surface form: federal government of the United States
legalBasis	10 U.S.C. § 139 ⓘ Title 10 of the United States Code ⓘ surface form: Title 10, United States Code
locatedIn	Arlington, Virginia ⓘ Pentagon ⓘ surface form: The Pentagon
oversees	analysis of alternatives for major defense investments ⓘ independent cost estimates for major defense acquisition programs ⓘ
partOf	Department of Defense ⓘ surface form: United States Department of Defense
positionRank	Presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed official ⓘ
reportsTo	United States Deputy Secretary of Defense ⓘ surface form: Deputy Secretary of Defense United States Secretary of Defense ⓘ surface form: Secretary of Defense
responsibleFor	analysis of defense budgets ⓘ analysis of defense resource allocation ⓘ development of analytic methods for cost estimation ⓘ development of analytic methods for program evaluation ⓘ independent analysis of defense programs ⓘ independent cost assessment of Department of Defense programs ⓘ program evaluation of major defense acquisition programs ⓘ programmatic analysis for the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process ⓘ support to the Quadrennial Defense Review ⓘ supporting senior leadership decisions on force structure ⓘ supporting senior leadership decisions on modernization ⓘ supporting senior leadership decisions on readiness ⓘ
subjectArea	cost analysis ⓘ defense economics ⓘ program evaluation ⓘ
usesProcess	Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System ⓘ surface form: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution system
worksWith	Defense Agencies ⓘ Joint Staff ⓘ United States military departments ⓘ surface form: Military Departments

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
Description of subject: The Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation is a senior U.S. Department of Defense organization responsible for providing independent analysis of defense programs, budgets, and costs to inform high-level strategic and resource decisions.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Office of the Secretary of Defense → oversees → Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation ⓘ

Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation → hasShortName → Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation

Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation → hasPredecessor → Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation

Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation → hasHead → Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation

Major Defense Acquisition Programs → monitoredBy → Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation ⓘ

subject surface form: Major Defense Acquisition Program

this entity surface form: Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation office