This report reviews the six most recent major acquisition reform reports, starting in 1949 with the Hoover Commissions and including McNamara's Total Package Procurement, Fitzhugh Commission, the Commission on Government Procurement,the Grace Commission, and ending with the Packard Commission report in 1986. The reports' recommendations are devided into six areas: centralized procurement, professionalization of the acquisition corps, management improvements, changes in contracting procedures, new development strategies, and legislative/executive relations.Lean Aerospace Initiativ
DOD reduced force structure after the Cold War ended. More efficient and sophisticated weapons are n...
This report outlines the Department of Defense's (DOD) defense acquisition structure, discusses rece...
A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For sev...
Research conducted for this joint applied project attempted to determine which policies should be pu...
Many in the Department of Defense associate the phase "acquisition reform" with major policy and leg...
The response of our defense industrial base to major changes, such as the collapse of the former Sov...
Attaining an adequate level of defense at an acceptable cost is as vital and elusive a goal as any t...
The President\u27s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management Report identified several problems a...
In 1986, the Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) began to examine what defense program manager...
Most Americans believe that their nation's weapon acquisition system is one of the worst-managed act...
The purpose of this study was to develop insights into the impact acquisition reforms have had on pr...
The end of the Cold War and its impact on defense spending has created a strong need to reform Depar...
The United States continues to develop and deploy the best weapons systems in the world. However, th...
Recently, I was teaching in an executive education program at the Kennedy School for GS-l5 level (an...
This decade has seen an unprecedented amount of legislation in the area of federal defense procureme...
DOD reduced force structure after the Cold War ended. More efficient and sophisticated weapons are n...
This report outlines the Department of Defense's (DOD) defense acquisition structure, discusses rece...
A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For sev...
Research conducted for this joint applied project attempted to determine which policies should be pu...
Many in the Department of Defense associate the phase "acquisition reform" with major policy and leg...
The response of our defense industrial base to major changes, such as the collapse of the former Sov...
Attaining an adequate level of defense at an acceptable cost is as vital and elusive a goal as any t...
The President\u27s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management Report identified several problems a...
In 1986, the Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) began to examine what defense program manager...
Most Americans believe that their nation's weapon acquisition system is one of the worst-managed act...
The purpose of this study was to develop insights into the impact acquisition reforms have had on pr...
The end of the Cold War and its impact on defense spending has created a strong need to reform Depar...
The United States continues to develop and deploy the best weapons systems in the world. However, th...
Recently, I was teaching in an executive education program at the Kennedy School for GS-l5 level (an...
This decade has seen an unprecedented amount of legislation in the area of federal defense procureme...
DOD reduced force structure after the Cold War ended. More efficient and sophisticated weapons are n...
This report outlines the Department of Defense's (DOD) defense acquisition structure, discusses rece...
A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For sev...