The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether or not the Army is effectively and adequately employing innovative IPbased knowledge management KM tools to manage the knowledge of information technology IT development acquisition and integration. A world of unmanaged IT information is available to the military from various commercial and government sources that could improve its IT requirements analysis efficiency of acquisition and stewardship of taxpayer dollars in this age of rapidly changing technologies. This important issue is a leadership challenge for all officers to effectively and adequately employ KM to exploit synergies gain efficiencies and economies of scale that ultimately save taxpayer dollars and lives.