Defense acquisition trends, 2015 : acquisition in the era of budgetary constraints / / project director, Andrew P. Hunter, project coordinator, Rhys McCormick, principal authors, Jesse Ellman [and three others], contributing authors, Kaitlyn Johnson, Gabriel Coll

• Autore: Hunter Andrew
• Pubblicazione: Lanham : , : CSIS, Center for Strategic & International Studies : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (129 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.6/212
• Soggetto topico: Government purchasing - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Armed Forces Procurement; United States Armed Forces Appropriations and expenditures; United States Military policy
• Persona (resp. second.): McCormickRhys; EllmanJesse; JohnsonKaitlyn; CollGabriel
• Note generali: A report of defense outlook: a CSIS series on strategy, budget, forces, and acquisition.
• Nota di contenuto: Figures; Tables; Executive Summary; What Is DoD Buying?; Birth of the Defense Innovation Initiative-Third Offset Strategy; A Five-Year Trough Has Developed in the Weapon Systems Pipeline; Services Contracts Surprisingly Resilient; How Is DoD Buying?; Major Acquisition Reform Efforts in 2015 Will Take Time to Deliver Results; Effective Competition Rates Are Steady, Despite Desire to Promote Competition; Contract Outcomes Can Be Examined Using Contract Data; Whom Is DoD Buying From?; Small Vendors Accounted for Their Largest-Ever Share of Defense Contracts in 2014 ; The Big 5 Defense Vendors Are Winning a Declining Share of R&D Contract ObligationsThe Present and Future of Defense Industry Consolidation; DoD Starts with a Narrow But Sustained Base for Outreach to Silicon Valley; What Are the Defense Components Buying?; Service Acquisition Portfolios Are Shifting In Distinct Ways; Army; Navy; Air Force; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Report Organization; 1.2. DoD Contract Spending in a Budgetary Context; 2. What Is DoD Buying?; 2.1. Innovation, R&D, and Technological Superiority; 2.1.1. Defense Innovation Initiative-"Third Offset Strategy" ; 2.1.2. Defense Innovation Unit Experimental: Finding New Sources of Innovation2.1.3. Research and Development Contracting during the Budget Drawdown; 2.2. Defense Contract Obligations by Platform Portfolio; 2.3. Defense Contract Obligations by Budget Account; 2.3.1. Procurement; 2.3.2. Operations & Maintenance; 2.3.3. Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; 3. How Is DoD Buying It?; 3.1. Reforming the Defense Acquisition System; 3.1.1. Better Buying Power; 3.1.2. 2016 National Defense Authorization Act; 3.2. Contract and Fee Type ; 3.3. Defense Contract Obligation by Rate of Effective Competition3.4. Contract Outcomes beyond the Headlines; 3.4.1. Terminations; 3.4.2. Change Orders; 4. Whom Is DoD Buying From?; 4.1. Changes in the Composition of the Defense Industrial Base; 4.1.1. Army; 4.1.2. Navy; 4.1.3. Air Force; 4.1.4. Defense Logistics Agency; 4.1.5. Products; 4.1.6. Services; 4.1.7. Research and Development; 4.2. The Present and Future Consolidation of Defense Industry; 4.2.1. Top Products Vendors; 4.2.2. Top Services Vendors; 4.2.3. Top Research and Development Vendors ; 4.3. Silicon Valley Participation in the Defense Industrial Base4.3.1. Narrow Silicon Valley Base; 4.3.2. Persistence in the Top Tier, Tumult Below; 4.3.3. Silicon Valley Avoids Drawdown and Budget Cap Cuts Thanks to HP; 4.3.4. Implications for the Future; 5. What Are the Defense Components Buying?; 5.1. Army; 5.2. Navy; 5.3. Air Force; 5.4. Defense Logistics Agency; 5.5. Missile Defense Agency; 5.6. Other DoD; 6. Conclusion; Appendix A: Methodology; About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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).
• Titolo autorizzato: Defense acquisition trends, 2015
• ISBN: 1-4422-5919-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816421203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: CSIS report.