Download or read book Air Force Service Procurement written by Laura H. Baldwin and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research is based on a series of interviews with commercial sector purchasing professionals who are respected by their peers for their successful creation and implementation of what are widely accepted as best purchasing and supply management practices, particularly in the area of service acquisitions. The authors also examine such practices through conference participation and a review of the business literature. They find that commercial firms rely on results-oriented metrics that focus on how acquisition activities support corporate objectives to manage their service acquisition activities. While not a commercial firm, the Air Force can learn from commercial firms' experiences in managing its service acquisitions. The authors recommend a balanced portfolio of performance metrics for the Air Force based on the five major categories of results-oriented metrics that appeared most often in their research: cost, quality, supplier satisfaction, implementation of new initiatives, and special interest items. Commercial firms indicated that in addition to the results-oriented metrics, internal management metrics that track internal customer satisfaction, personnel training and retention, and ethics violations are also important. Selected metrics are reported to top-level executives on a regular basis.
Download or read book Air Force Procurement Instructions written by United States. Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Armed Services Procurement Regulation written by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Logistics) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Service Procurement written by Katherine M. Harris and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testimony presented before the House Armed Services Committee Panel on Defense Acquisition Reform on April 23, 2009.
Download or read book Report on Military Procurement written by United States. Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (1953-1955). Task Force on Procurement and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Pursuant to Section 4 Public Law 86 89 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Procurement Practices of the Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews DOD contract and procurement administration under the Renegotiation Act and the Armed Services Procurement Act. Focuses on contract award procedures, renegotiation accounting and auditing standards, and contractor costing justifications. Includes statistical data on defense small business and other contracts (p. 429-621).
Download or read book Hearings Pursuant to Section 4 Public Law 86 89 Special Subcommittee on Procurement Practices of the Department of Defense of the Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Eighty sixth Congress Second Session written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acquisition Management in the United States Air Force and Its Predecessors written by Richard G. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Manual written by United States. Department of the Air Force and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Study of Armed Services Procurement Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Information Publishing Service 902 S Procurement Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This audit was conducted in response to information received from the Air Force Audit Agency and Congressman Charles Rose, Chairman, Joint Committee on Printing. The information expressed concerns regarding acquisition planning, management, and oversight of the Air Force Information Publishing Service procurement to modernize publishing and information management. To achieve this modernization goal, the Air Force established, with the assistance of the Government Printing Office, a firm-fixed-price, requirements, indefinite- delivery request for proposal with economic price adjustments known as the 902-S. The Air Force estimated the life-cycle cost for the 902-S procurement at more than $1 billion. The procurement was to include publishing and printing of administrative documents and technical manuals (computer-aided logistics support (CALS) documents) and Federal information processing equipment, software, and support services. Effective April 6, 1992, DoD consolidated all printing under the Defense Printing Service.
Download or read book Acquisition Management in the U S Air Force and Its Predecessors written by Lawrence R. Benson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first 50 years as an independent armed service, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has fostered science & technology & -- in partnership with the private sector -- developed & produced the complex tools of aerospace power that helped the Free World prevail in the Cold War. The foundation for these extraordinary achievements was laid in the 40 years before the USAF separated from the U.S. Army in 1947. This document tells the story of how the air components of the Army & then the USAF organized & managed the activities required to get aircraft & other weapon systems from the drawing board to the flightline or the launch pad. This study is the first overall historical synopsis of the service¿s acquisition structure. Illustrations.
Download or read book Procurement written by David L. Belden and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Using a Spend Analysis to Help Identify Prospective Air Force Purchasing and Supply Initiatives written by Nancy Y. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This briefing summarizes research on how the Air Force might use an analysis of its spending to develop better supply strategies, improve its relationships with suppliers, and better manage its supply base. Best practices offer many ways by which the Air Force can improve performance and save money. Such techniques include consolidating multiple contracts with existing providers, selecting the best providers and offering them longer contracts with broader scopes of goods and services, and working with selected strategic partners to improve quality, responsiveness, reliability, and cost. There are many challenges to conducting an Air Force-wide spend analysis, primarily the lack of detailed, centralized data on all expenditures as well as questions about data quality for those data that are available. Nevertheless, the data that do exist point to many prospective sources of savings and performance improvements. The authors analyze the most complete centralized source available on Air Force expenditures, known as DD350 data. Transactions in the DD350 data constitute 96 percent of all Air Force contract dollars spent directly. Among the actions that the Air Force might wish to take are: consolidation of a large number of contracts with similar or the same supplier; grouping contractor ID codes having multiple contracts with the Air Force and many purchase office codes associated with the same contractor, so that the Air Force does not have to pay for the contractor's repetitive bidding and contract administration costs; examining contracts for goods or services available from only one supplier, which gives the Air Force only limited opportunities to gain leverage over such suppliers. Conducting a detailed Air Force spend analysis would require information on the needs, preferences, and priorities of commodity users not available in the DD350 data. Because the Air Force needs to balance prospective savings, performance improvements, risks, socioeconomic and other goals, and other regulations not always present in the private sector, not all best commercial practices may be appropriate for it.
Download or read book Air Force Laboratory Procurement Management written by United States. Air Force. Systems Command and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Procurement Process written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Task Force on Selected Defense Procurement Matters and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance Based Service Acquisition PBSA written by Fred J. Lacey IV. and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal procurement has typically focused much of its efforts on the acquisition of products, with acquisition of services not being held in as high of regard. However, recent changes have required the Department of Defense and the US Air Force (USAF) to increase spending on services. This significant increase in spending on services suggests a need to ensure acquisition professionals are prepared to apply sound business judgment to Performance Based Service Acquisition (PBSA) strategies. PBSA involves acquisition strategies, methods, and techniques that describe and communicate measurable outcomes rather than direct performance processes. The Secretary of Defense, in order to ensure the success of PBSA, has established a goal of 50% of all service acquisitions meet PBSA requirements by 2005. This thesis looks the current status of PBSA with the USAF, if goals are being met, are there any trends to suggest future usage of PBSA, and what factors, if any, are related to whether a contract is classified as having been awarded using PBSA strategies. A combination of demographics, nominal logistical regression, and contingency tables will used in order to determine if the USAF is in compliance and if there are correlations within PBSA that affect its use. The results of this thesis will serve as a starting point from which further research can develop and provide information that can help utilize PBSA in the future.
