Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2023 written by Gregory Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2021 written by Gregory Sanders and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense Acquisition Trends 2021 is the latest in an annual series of CSIS reports examining trends in what the DoD is buying, how the DoD is buying it, and from whom the DoD is buying using data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). This report analyzes the current state of affairs in defense acquisition by combining detailed policy and data analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of the current and future outlook for defense acquisition. It provides critical insights into understanding the current trends in the defense-industrial base and the implications of those trends on acquisition policy.
Download or read book Acquisition Trends 2018 written by Rhys McCormick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyzes the current state of affairs in defense acquisition by combining detailed policy and data analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of the current and future outlook for defense acquisition. This analysis will provide critical insights into what DoD is buying, how DoD is buying it, from whom is DoD buying, and what are the defense components buying using data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). This analysis provides critical insights into understanding the current trends in the defense industrial base and the implications of those trends on acquisition policy.
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2016 written by Jesse Ellman and published by CSIS Reports. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual report examines trends in what the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is buying, how DoD is buying it, and from whom DoD is buying.
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2021 written by Gregory Sanders and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2015 written by Jesse Ellman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines contracting trends at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It relies on empirical analysis of DoD contracting transaction data from the open-source Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). The authors seek to identify and study emergent trends in the contracting data and marry that analysis with discussion of changing goals and methods for the larger acquisition system.
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2020 Topline DoD Trends written by Rhys McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2016 The End of the Contracting Drawdown written by Andrew P. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2019 Topline DoD Trends written by Rhys McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acquisition Trends 2018 Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back Executive Summary written by Rhys McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends 2019 Army Contract Trends written by Rhys McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Defense Acquisition Management written by and published by Defense Acquisition University. This book was released on 2003 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6th edition. K. E. Soundheimer, Special Publications Editor. Supersedes all other editions. Provides an update of the statutory and regulatory framework governing Defense systems acquisition as well as commentary on emerging trends and initiatives. Designed to be both a comprehensive introduction to the world of systems acquisition management for the newcomer and a refresher for the practitioner who has been away from the business a few years. Focuses on DOD-wide management policies and procedures.
Download or read book Introduction to Defense Acquisition Management written by Charles B. Cochrane and published by Defense Acquisition University. This book was released on 2005 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide provides an update of the statutory and regulatory framework governing Defense systems acquisition as well as commentary on emerging trends and initiatives. It is designed to be both a comprehensive introduction to the world of systems acquisition management for the newcomer and a refresher for the practitioner who has been away from the business a few years. It focuses on DOD-wide management policies and procedures.
Download or read book Getting to Best written by Business Executives for National Security (U.S.). Task Force on Defense Acquisition Law and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While defense acquisition has far more in common with business than with traditional governmental functions, it is not an easily recognized form of business. It consists of a monopsony (i.e., a buyer's monopoly) run by the world's most powerful customer that makes the rules and enforces them. Yet, embedded within this monopsony are occasional monopolies in the private sector affecting specific products. The firms operating in this environment are expected to compete not only against each other but against the myriad of commercial firms around the globe that seek equity and debt from the same financial sources. How might a business perspective improve the practice of defense acquisition? First, it would ensure that the interests and incentives of all enterprise stakeholders are communicated, understood and agreed upon. Second, reform would begin to create an environment where, rather than striving to become error-free on the process side, the acquisition system is aimed at achieving successful outcomes, that is, providing users what they need, when they need it, and at a cost they can afford. Third, it would open lines of communication between DoD and its suppliers, the defense industrial base in particular as well as the larger commercial sector. The private sector operates as a community of buyers and sellers. In defense acquisition such relationships are at "arm's length" and legally restrained. The Task Force stresses these attainable values throughout this report. However, the first challenge is to recommit the enterprise to certain principles that provide the foundation on which a sound defense acquisition system and its sustaining enterprise can be built.
Download or read book Defense Acquisition Reform Status and Current Issues written by Valerie B. Grasso and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War and its impact on defense spending has created a strong need to reform the Department of Defense's (DoD) acquisition system. With procurement spending down, DoD expects to depend on savings from acquisition reform to help finance future force modernization. Policy makers believe that DoD should use more commercial products because, in many instances, they cost less and their quality is comparable to products built according to DoD military specifications. Many such reform proposals are based on the recognition that DoD regulatory barriers and a Cold War acquisition "culture" have inhibited the introduction of commercial products. The need to encourage greater interaction between the defense and commercial industries is considered vital to keeping U.S. military technology the best in the world -- a major objective of U.S. defense policy. Many high-technology commercial products (e.g., electronics) are state-of-the-art and changing so fast that DoD's military specifications, or "milspecs," system cannot keep pace. Congress has passed several important reforms, among them the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996, Defense Reform Act of 1997, and the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998. DoD has lowered or abolished regulatory barriers; experts agree, however, that more work is required to make the system responsive to U.S. defense needs. Enacted reforms will mean greater freedom to innovate, make quicker decisions, and improve DoD program development -- running DoD more like a private sector operation. At issue is just how to change DoD personnel management policies, and introduce DoD's acquisition reform initiatives to the private sector. Although DoD has begun outsourcing some functions, expanding its use has been a major goal. Congress will continue to exercise a strong oversight role because of its longtime interest in streamlining DoD's acquisition processes.
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unit X written by Raj M. Shah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites—all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation. Unit X was specifically designed as a bridge to Valley technologists that would accelerate bringing state of the art software and hardware to the battle space. Given authority to cut through red tape and function almost as a venture capital firm, Shah, Kirchhoff, and others in the Unit who came after were tasked particularly with meeting immediate military needs with technology from Valley startups rather than from so-called “primes”—behemoth companies like Lockheed, Raytheon, and Boeing. Taking us inside AI labs, drone workshops, and battle command centers—and, also, overseas to Ukraine’s frontlines—Shah and Kirchhoff paint a fascinating picture of what it takes to stay dominant in a fast-changing and often precarious geopolitical landscape. In an era when America’s chief rival, China, has ordered that all commercial firms within its borders make their research and technology available for military exploitation, strengthening the relationship between Washington and Silicon Valley was always advisable. Today, it is an urgent necessity.
