Defense Acquisition Trends 2016

Author : Jesse Ellman,Samantha Cohen,Andrew Hunter,Kaitlyn Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442280120

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Defense Acquisition Trends, 2016 by Jesse Ellman,Samantha Cohen,Andrew Hunter,Kaitlyn Johnson Pdf

This report is the second in an annual series examining trends in what the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is buying, how DoD is buying it, and from whom DoD is buying. This year’s study looks in depth at issues in research and development, acquisition reform in the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), performance of the defense acquisition system, the future of cooperative International Joint Development Programs, and major trends apparent in the activities of the major defense components. By combining detailed policy and data analysis, the study provides a comprehensive overview of the current and future outlook for defense acquisition.

Author : Gregory Sanders,Won Joon Jang,Alexander Holderness
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538140604

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Defense Acquisition Trends 2021 by Gregory Sanders,Won Joon Jang,Alexander Holderness Pdf

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.

Author : Jesse Ellman,Andrew P. Hunter,Rhys McCormick,Gregory Sanders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442259195

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Defense Acquisition Trends, 2015 by Jesse Ellman,Andrew P. Hunter,Rhys McCormick,Gregory Sanders Pdf

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.

Author : Rhys McCormick,Andrew P. Hunter,Samantha Cohen,Gregory Sanders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442281066

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Acquisition Trends, 2018 by Rhys McCormick,Andrew P. Hunter,Samantha Cohen,Gregory Sanders Pdf

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.

Author : Rhys McCormick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396892302

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Acquisition Trends 2018: Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back Executive Summary by Rhys McCormick Pdf

Author : Henrik Breitenbauch,André Ken Jakobsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000732177

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Defence Planning as Strategic Fact by Henrik Breitenbauch,André Ken Jakobsson Pdf

Defence Planning as Strategic Fact provides and elaborates on an "upstream" focus on the variegated organizational, political and conceptual practices of military, civilian administrative and political leaderships involved in defence planning, offering an important security and strategic studies supplement to the traditional "downstream" focus on the use of force. The book enables the reader to engage with the role of ideas in defence planning, of organizational processes and biases, path dependencies and administrative dynamics under the pressures of continuously changing domestic and international constraints. The chapters show how defence planning must be seen as a constitutive element of defence and strategic studies – that it is a strategic fact of its own which merits particular practical and scholarly attention. As defence planning creates the conditions behind every peace upheld or broken and every war won or lost, Defence Planning as Strategic Fact will be of great use to scholars of defence studies, strategic studies, and military studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Defence Studies.

Author : Gregory Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396885462

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Defense Acquisition Trends 2021 by Gregory Sanders Pdf

Author : Rhys McCormick,Andrew P. Hunter,Gregory Sanders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442280601

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Measuring the Impact of Sequestration and the Drawdown on the Defense Industrial Base by Rhys McCormick,Andrew P. Hunter,Gregory Sanders Pdf

The presence of a technologically superior defense industrial base has been a foundation of U.S. strategy since 1945. While the implementation of the budget cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011 has caused concerns for the industrial base, the resulting debate has been lacking in empirical analysis. The purpose of this research is to measure the impact of the current defense drawdown across all the tiers of the industrial base. This report analyzes prime and subprime Defense Department contract data to measures the impacts of the drawdown by sector to better understand how prime and subprime contractors have responded to this external market shock.

Author : Andrew P. Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396890060

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Defense Acquisition Trends, 2015: Acquisition in the Era of Budgetary Constraints by Andrew P. Hunter Pdf

Author : Rhys McCormick,Gregory Sanders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538170540

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Trends in Department of Defense Other Transaction Authority Usage by Rhys McCormick,Gregory Sanders Pdf

The federal government’s use of Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements has exploded in recent years, thanks in large part to a surge in popularity within the Department of Defense (DoD). Rather than a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement, OTAs are an acquisition approach that pursues innovation by enabling certain federal agencies to access goods and services outside of the traditional acquisition system. This CSIS report examines the notable trends in DoD OTA usage since the DoD's authority to enter into OTAs was expanded by the statuary changes in the FY 2015 and FY 2016 NDAAs. It seeks to provide insight into how the DoD is using OTAs to pursue innovation, how DoD spending under an OTA is organized, and to whom the majority of OTA obligations go.

Author : Aggie Hirst,Lecturer in International Relations Theory and Methods Aggie Hirst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197629208

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Politics of Play by Aggie Hirst,Lecturer in International Relations Theory and Methods Aggie Hirst Pdf

In the current century, games play a key role in many areas of our lives. Once thought frivolous and nerdy, videogames are now the leading global entertainment medium, and games are widely used in education, medicine, government...and war. Since 2014, the US government has directed the military to expand the use of wargames across their training, planning, and rehabilitation spheres. Combining original empirical data gathered at US military computer-assisted command post exercises (CPXs) and school-houses with a distinctive theory of immersive play, The Politics of Play offers a new critical analysis of the use of wargaming to produce soldiers in the digital age.

Author : William Sims Curry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000832310

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Government Contracting by William Sims Curry Pdf

Through three comprehensive editions, Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement has been lauded for exposing fraud, incompetence, waste, and abuse (FIWA) and analyzing corruption, mismanagement, and ineptitude that defile government contracting. The first two editions thoroughly outlined procurement throughout the contracting cycle including initial planning, evaluating proposals, contractor selection, contract administration, contract closeout, and auditing. They further provided much-needed guidance on contracting documents, management tools, and processes for addressing negative influences on government contracting. This third edition incorporates the results of a new nationwide study into best public procurement practice, as well as recent examples of real-world procurement fraud cases, offering recommendations for procurement practices to deter fraud. Public procurement tools such as requests for proposals, pro forma contracts, proposal evaluation forms, sole source justification and approval forms, and other useful tools including PowerPoint presentations are provided on a website to accompany the book. This textbook is aimed at postgraduate students and academics working in the fields of public administration, policy and procurement, along with public procurement professionals.

Author : Todd Harrison,Andrew Hunter,Kaitlyn Johnson,Thomas B. Roberts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442280045

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Implications of Ultra-Low-Cost Access to Space by Todd Harrison,Andrew Hunter,Kaitlyn Johnson,Thomas B. Roberts Pdf

Since the advent of the space age, a primary constraint on military, commercial, and civil space missions has been the cost of launch. Launching objects into space requires substantial investments in launch systems and infrastructure, which has restricted the market to only a handful of national governments and several large private companies. This study explores the possibility of a space industry significantly less constrained by the cost of access to space.

Author : Raj M. Shah,Christopher Kirchhoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781668031384

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Unit X by Raj M. Shah,Christopher Kirchhoff Pdf

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.

Author : Burgess, Kevin,Antill, Peter
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781522506003

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Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement by Burgess, Kevin,Antill, Peter Pdf

Military and defense organizations are a vital component to any nation. In order to maintain the standards of these sectors, new procedures and practices must be implemented. Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the present state of defense organizations, examining reforms and solutions necessary to overcome current limitations and make vast improvements to their infrastructure. Highlighting methodologies and theoretical foundations that promote more effective practices in defense acquisition, this book is ideally designed for academicians, practitioners, researchers, upper-level students, and professionals engaged in defense industries.