Download or read book More Department of Defense DoD Oversight Needed for Purchases Made Through the Department of Energy DoE written by Richard B. Jolliffe and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviewed DoD procedures for purchases through the DoE, specifically projects that DoE National Nuclear Security Admin. sites performed under the DoE Work for Others program. The report found that DoD has significant contracting problems when using DoE. It also found potential bona fide needs rule violations, including inappropriate use of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation and Operations and Maintenance funds. The report includes recommendations, as well as management comments. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Download or read book More DoD Oversight Needed for Purchases Made Through the Department of Energy written by United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2009, we reviewed DoD procedures for purchases through the Department of Energy (DOE), specifically projects that DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) sites performed under the DOE Work for Others (WFO) program. DoD requesting activities continue to use DOE for assisted interagency acquisitions while DOE has not certified that it will comply with Defense procurement requirements in accordance with Section 801 of the FY 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 801). In addition, for all WFO projects that NNSA sites perform for DoD, NNSA contracting officers do not record detailed procurement data into the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation database, make price reasonableness determinations, obtain certified cost or pricing data, designate contracting officer's representatives, or designate individuals to review contractor invoices. This is because DOE does not believe that Section 801 applies to reimbursable activities performed by DOE and its contractors. We recommend that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics resolve the Section 801 noncompliance issues we identified. We recommend the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer instruct the Services and Defense Threat Reduction Agency to initiate preliminary reviews of potential Antideficiency Act violations and update the Financial Management Regulations with general and detailed funding guidance. We recommend that Acquisition Executives for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the Director, Defense Threat Reduction Agency make program and contracting officers aware of their responsibilities for obtaining and reviewing detailed cost information for individual WFO projects.
Download or read book Defense Procurement Full Funding Policy Background Issues and Options for Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full funding policy is a federal budgeting rule imposed on the Department of Defense (DOD) that requires the entire procurement cost of a weapon or piece of military equipment to be funded in the year in which the item is procured. The policy relates to Congress's power of the purse and its responsibility for conducting oversight of DOD programs. Support for the policy has been periodically reaffirmed over the years. In recent years some DOD weapons have been procured with funding profiles that do not conform to the policy. DOD has proposed procuring ships and aircraft using funding approaches that do not conform to the policy. DOD's proposals would establish new precedents for procuring other DOD weapons and equipment with non-conforming funding approaches. Such precedents could further circumscribe the full funding policy. This, in turn, could limit and complicate Congress's oversight of DOD procurement programs, or require different approaches to exercise control and oversight. A principal effect of the full funding policy is to prevent the use of incremental funding, under which the cost of a weapon is divided into two or more annual portions. Incremental funding could make the total procurement costs of weapons and equipment more difficult for Congress to understand and track, create a potential for DOD to start procurement of an item without necessarily stating its total cost to Congress, permit one Congress to tie the hands of future Congresses, and increase weapon procurement costs by exposing weapons under construction to uneconomic start-up and stop costs. Congress has several options for responding to recent procurement proposals. These options could have the effect of terminating, modifying, maintaining, or strengthening the full funding policy. In weighing these options, Congress may consider several factors, including Congress's power of the purse, ability to conduct oversight of DOD procurement programs, and the potential impact on weapon costs.
Download or read book Defense Procurement written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full funding policy is a federal budgeting rule imposed on the Department of Defense (DOD) by Congress in the 1950s that requires the entire procurement cost of a weapon or piece of military equipment to be funded in the year in which the item is procured. Although technical in nature, the policy relates to Congress's power of the purse and its responsibility for conducting oversight of DOD programs. Support for the policy has been periodically reaffirmed over the years by Congress, the Government Accountability Office, and DOD.
Download or read book Ways to Make Greater Use of the Life Cycle Costing Acquisition Technique in DOD Department of Defense written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circular No A 11 written by Omb and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The June 2019 OMB Circular No. A-11 provides guidance on preparing the FY 2021 Budget and instructions on budget execution. Released in June 2019, it's printed in two volumes. This is Volume I. Your budget submission to OMB should build on the President's commitment to advance the vision of a Federal Government that spends taxpayer dollars more efficiently and effectively and to provide necessary services in support of key National priorities while reducing deficits. OMB looks forward to working closely with you in the coming months to develop a budget request that supports the President's vision. Most of the changes in this update are technical revisions and clarifications, and the policy requirements are largely unchanged. The summary of changes to the Circular highlights the changes made since last year. This Circular supersedes all previous versions. VOLUME I Part 1-General Information Part 2-Preparation and Submission of Budget Estimates Part 3-Selected Actions Following Transmittal of The Budget Part 4-Instructions on Budget Execution VOLUME II Part 5-Federal Credit Part 6-The Federal Performance Framework for Improving Program and Service Delivery Part7-Appendices Why buy a book you can download for free? We print the paperback book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the bound paperback from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these paperbacks as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound paperback, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com
Download or read book Acquisition Reform written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2019 Missile Defense Review written by Department Of Defense and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Missile Defense Review - January 2019 According to a senior administration official, a number of new technologies are highlighted in the report. The review looks at "the comprehensive environment the United States faces, and our allies and partners face. It does posture forces to be prepared for capabilities that currently exist and that we anticipate in the future." The report calls for major investments from both new technologies and existing systems. This is a very important and insightful report because many of the cost assessments for these technologies in the past, which concluded they were too expensive, are no longer applicable. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com
Download or read book DOD systems modernization continued investment in the standard procurement system has not been justified written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amount of money that the Department of Defense (DOD) spends each year contracting for goods and services dwarfs the amounts spent by other federal agencies. For example, during fiscal year 1999, DOD reported that it spent about $130 billion on contracts for goods and services. By comparison, the second largest contractor of goods and services in the federal government was the Department of Energy, which reported that it spent about $15.5 billion during the same period.
Download or read book Acquisition Reform written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of DOD s Management of Inside Information in the Acquisition Process written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DOD Should Streamline Its Decision Making Process for Weapon Systems to Reduce Inefficiencies written by United States Government Accountability and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) has repeatedly delivered the most capable weapon systems in the world, but with consistent schedule delays and at significant cost to taxpayers. The process used to manage the acquisition of these systems has been characterized by organizations both internal and external to DOD as one that is inefficient, cumbersome, and bureaucratic.1 A contributing factor to this inefficient process is the significant time and effort required to complete information requirements before an acquisition program can proceed through a milestone to the next phase in the weapon system acquisition process. DOD leadership has acknowledged that too much time is invested in preparing for key milestones, including the documentation and oversight of information required by statutes and policy,2 which takes time away from conducting day-to-day core program management tasks such as contractor oversight, engineering, and risk management. There is a natural tension between oversight and accountability on one hand and efficient program management on the other. Oversight and accountability add process, which is justifiable given the high cost and risk associated with major weapons and the inherent incentives for program managers and contractors to be optimistic about what they can accomplish. The additional process does come at a cost of time and other resources that a program manager could potentially employ better. If it were clearly demonstrable that program cost and schedule outcomes have improved as oversight has intensified, then the additional process would be easy to accept. But, as we have reported over the years, program outcomes have not significantly improved. Thus, it is an appropriate time to assess the value of the documents and reviews demanded of today's acquisition process. We are not suggesting that individual actions to improve oversight were not justifiable, but rather questioning whether their cumulative demand is in balance with their desired effects. According to federal internal control standards, agencies should develop effective and efficient processes to ensure that actions are taken to address requirements, such as in this case, completing the information required to aid in milestone decisions.3 DOD has embarked on some initiatives aimed at streamlining different aspects of its weapon system acquisition process, but acknowledges more needs to be done. In the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, Congress mandated that GAO review DOD's weapon systems acquisition process, with an objective of identifying processes or procedures with little or no value added.4 This report examines (1) the effort and value involved in DOD's preparation for a milestone decision, (2) the factors that influence the time needed to complete the milestone decision process, and (3) alternative processes used by some DOD programs and leading commercial firms.
Download or read book Joint Requirements Oversight Council Procurement Quantity Validation Process for Major Defense Acquisition Programs written by United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JROC is required to assist the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in identifying, assessing, and approving joint military requirements. Joint military requirements are the capabilities necessary to fill or prevent a gap in a DoD core mission area, and requirements documents must describe the quantities of assets required to attain the capability requirements. JROC officials accepted MDAP procurement quantities that were included in requirements documents provided by Military Service acquisition officials but did not obtain input and reviews for procurement quantity from officials within the Office of the Secretary of Defense when validating requirements documents. As a result, JROC officials could not ensure that appropriate tradeoffs were made between life-cycle cost, schedule, performance, and procurement quantity.
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by Us Government Accountability Office and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part to improve the availability of information on and management of DOD's acquisition of services, Congress enacted section 2330a of title 10 of the U.S. Code, which required the Secretary of Defense to establish a data collection system to provide management information on each purchase of services by a military department or defense agency.6 The information to be collected includes, among other things, the total dollar amount of the purchase and the extent of competition provided in making the purchase. In 2008, Congress amended section 2330a to add a requirement for the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual inventory of the activities performed pursuant to contracts for services for or on behalf of DOD during the preceding fiscal year.
Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
Download or read book Manufacturing Engineering Education written by J Paulo Davim and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing Engineering Education includes original and unpublished chapters that develop the applications of the manufacturing engineering education field. Chapters convey innovative research ideas that have a prodigious significance in the life of academics, engineers, researchers and professionals involved with manufacturing engineering. Today, the interest in this subject is shown in many prominent global institutes and universities, and the robust momentum of manufacturing has helped the U.S. economy continue to grow throughout 2014. This book covers manufacturing engineering education, with a special emphasis on curriculum development, and didactic aspects. Includes original and unpublished chapters that develop the applications of the manufacturing engineering education principle Applies manufacturing engineering education to curriculum development Offers research ideas that can be applied to the work of academics, engineers, researchers and professionals
Download or read book Department of Energy Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2002 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Procurement and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
