Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense Acquisitions: Sound Practices Critical to Ensuring Value for the Defense Logistics Agency's Acquisitions
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions Sound Practices Critical to Ensuring Value for the Defense Logistics Agency s Acquisitions written by William M. Solis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's ability to project and sustain military power depends on effective logistics. As the DoD'¿¿s largest combat support agency, providing worldwide logistics support in both peacetime and wartime, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) supplies almost every consumable item the military services need to operate, from Meals Ready-to Eat to jet fuel. This testimony identifies the challenges DoD faces in ensuring DLA gets value for the taxpayer's dollar and obtains quality commodities in a cost-efficient and effective manner. It focuses on sound practices that have been identified regarding obtaining value when contracting and how they can also apply to DLA's acquisition of commodities. Charts and tables.
Download or read book DOD Supply Chain Management written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Panel on Defense Acquisition Reform and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions Actions Needed to Ensure Value for Service Contracts Congressional Testimony written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Circular written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Logistics Acquisition Regulation written by United States. Defense Logistics Agency and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring Value and Efficiency written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Panel on Defense Acquisition Reform and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acquisition Workforce written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO's continuing reviews of the acquisition workforce, focusing on the Department of Defense (DOD); the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Energy, and Health and Human Services; the General Services Administration; and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, indicate that some of the government's largest procurement operations are not run efficiently. GAO found that requirements are not clearly defined, prices and alternatives are not fully considered, or contracts are not adequately overseen. The ongoing technological revolution requires a workforce with new knowledge, skills, and abilities, and the nature of acquisition is changing from routine simple buys toward more complex acquisitions and new business practices. DOD has adopted multidisciplinary and multifunctional definitions of their acquisition workforce, but the civilian agencies have not. DOD and the civilian agencies reviewed have developed specific training requirements for their acquisition workforce and mechanisms to track the training of acquisition personnel. All of the agencies reviewed said they had sufficient funding to provide current required core training for their acquisition workforce, but some expressed concerns about funding training for future requirements and career development, particularly because of budget cuts made recently at the Defense Acquisition University.
Download or read book Afghanistan written by William M. Solis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD, State, and the USAID have collectively obligated billions of dollars for contracts and assistance to support U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. There are concerns that U.S. funds are being diverted to fund insurgent and criminal activity in Afghanistan. This review was initiated to identify DoD, State, and USAID efforts to vet non-U.S. contractors and assistance recipients in Afghanistan. It examines: (1) the extent to which DoD, State and USAID have established a process to vet non-U.S. vendors to ensure that resources are not used to support insurgents; and (2) the extent to which vetting information is shared among DoD, State, and USAID. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.
Download or read book Getting to Best written by 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?
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense Acquisitions: DOD's Practices and Processes for Multiyear Procurement Should Be Improved
Download or read book Supplementary Stewardship Reporting written by United States. Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statistics Testing and Defense Acquisition written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every weapons system being developed, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must make a critical decision: Should the system go forward to full-scale production? The answer to that question may involve not only tens of billions of dollars but also the nation's security and military capabilities. In the milestone process used by DOD to answer the basic acquisition question, one component near the end of the process is operational testing, to determine if a system meets the requirements for effectiveness and suitability in realistic battlefield settings. Problems discovered at this stage can cause significant production delays and can necessitate costly system redesign. This book examines the milestone process, as well as the DOD's entire approach to testing and evaluating defense systems. It brings to the topic of defense acquisition the application of scientific statistical principles and practices.
Download or read book Providing the Means of War written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acquisition Logistics Guide written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
