Download or read book Defense Financial and Investment Review Appendix 4 Part 1 Survey of Defense Procurement Personnel Results and Findings written by M. T. Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Manpower Data Center conducted a survey of DoD procurement personnel in support of the Defense Financial and Investment Review study. The questionnaire was broken down into five main sections: Section I covered respondent characteristics; Section II covered pricing policies and practices; Section III covered profit policies and practices; Section IV covered contract financing policies and practices; and Section V covered contractor investment incentive policies and practices. Responses are compared to previous profit studies for each of the subject areas. This report is not required to understand the Defense Financial and Investment Review final report, but the personnel survey does present the most current perceptions of the procurement community in the subject areas. Keywords: Capital Investment, Contract Financing, Contract Pricing, Profit Policy, Pricing, Progress Payments, Weighted Guidelines. (Author).

Download or read book Government Reports Announcements Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Administration Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government reports annual index written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report to the Congress written by United States. Office of Federal Procurement Policy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Reports Annual Index Keyword A L written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of the Spare Parts Procurement Practices of the Department of Defense written by United States. Office of Federal Procurement Policy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Financial and Investment Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Defense Financial and Investment Review (DFAIR) was chartered by the Deputy Secretary of Defense to study contract pricing, financing and profit (markup) policies. Financial data covering the years 1975-1983 were collected and analyzed by the DFAIR and compared with similar data collected during the 1970-1974 period for the Profit '76 study. Comparisons were also made with the financial results of durable goods manufacturers, and with the commercial work performed by defense contractor segments. Analysis of industry financial and investment trends indicates that the goals of many of the precious policy changes are being realized, although there are a number of refinements and improvements which need to be made. The final report of DFAIR is based on data from many sources. Four appendices (in separate volumes) contain much of the source data. The appendices are not required to understand the report, but they would be useful to anyone interested in doing further research in the subject area. Keywords: Capital investment; Contract financing; Contract pricing; Profit policy; Pricing; Progress payments; Weighted guidelines.

Download or read book Impact of Military Supply and Service Activities on the Economy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Defense Procurement and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Background Material on Economic Aspects of Military Procurement and Supply written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Procurement Policies and Procedures written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Panel on Defense Procurement Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1204 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. Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Contracting written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense Financial and Investment Review (DFAIR) to determine its adequacy, the validity of its findings, and the appropriateness of its recommendations. GAO found that: (1) DFAIR determined that contract pricing, financing, and profit policies were related and should be examined on an integrated basis; (2) the profitability of defense businesses was comparable to commercial businesses from 1970 to 1980 and from 1983 to the present; (3) although DOD reported that a 1980 change in its profit policy resulted in an unintended 0.5- to 1-percent increase in profit objectives, GAO believes that the increase was larger than 1 percent; (4) DFAIR recommended changes to the weighted guidelines to do away with the unintended increase, but profits would have actually increased 25 percent if DOD had implemented all of the recommendations; (5) achieving comparability between defense and commercial businesses will require more than a 1-percent reduction in profit objectives because actual defense business profits have been substantially greater than those DFAIR calculated; and (6) the recently established DOD interim profit policy, based on DFAIR data and analysis, will not achieve the appropriate profit reductions because it uses as a baseline the flawed data analyses contained in DFAIR.

Download or read book Report on Procurement written by United States. Department of Defense. Advisory Committee on Fiscal Organization and Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Defense Contract Audit Agency written by United States. Defense Contract Audit Agency and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DFAS Pay personnel Procedures Manual Navy written by United States. Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Cleveland Center and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sources of Weapon System Cost Growth written by Joseph George Bolten and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies have shown that the Department of Defense (DoD) and the military departments have historically underestimated the cost of new weapon systems. Quantifying cost growth is important, but the larger issue is why cost growth occurs. To address that issue, this analysis uses data from Selected Acquisition Reports to examine 35 mature, but not necessarily complete, major defense acquisition programs similar to the type and complexity of those typically managed by the Air Force. The programs are first examined as a complete set, then Air Force and non-Air Force programs are analyzed separately to determine whether the causes of cost growth in the two groups differ. Four major sources of cost growth were identified: (1) errors in estimation and scheduling, (2) decisions made by the government, (3) financial matters, and (4) miscellaneous sources. Total (development plus procurement) cost growth, when measured as simple averages among the program set, is dominated by decisions, which account for more than two-thirds of the growth. Most decisions-related cost growth involves quantity changes (22 percent), requirements growth (13 percent), and schedule changes (9 percent). Cost estimation (10 percent) is the only large contributor in the errors category. Less than 4 percent of the overall cost growth is due to financial and miscellaneous causes. Because decisions involving changes in requirements, quantities, and production schedules dominate cost growth, program managers, service leadership, and Congress should look for ways to reduce changes in these areas.