Improving Competition: Reforming the Requirements Process

Abstract

Typical acquisition reform efforts have been focused in the margins, achieving marginal results. The evidence of decades of acquisition reform indicates that the marginal reforms typically taken are not making the fundamental changes needed by the Departmentof Defense (DoD). Legislative changes made since 2009 and several years of Better Buying Power refinements have incrementally improved acquisition practice, but many would argue that more change is needed. The simple, but revolutionary reform idea presented here is based on the authors research for the paper and presentation titled Three Big Ideas for Reforming Acquisition, delivered to the 12th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium in Monterey, California, on May 13, 2015.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1023271

Entities

People

  • Roy Wood

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Competition
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Government Furnished Equipment
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Military Acquisition
  • Navy
  • Procurement

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design