The Pentagon 'Four-Step',

Abstract

In the Secretary of Defense's Annual Report for FY'79 to the Congress, released on 2 February 1978, he indicated that the Department of Defense (DOD) was currently testing a new concept for contractor source selection on major programs called the 'four-step' process. He further indicated that a decision would be made in February on whether DOD would adopt this process. DOD's encouragement of the publication by the Wall Street Journal of a favorable article on the subject on 6 March would seem to indicate that this decision has been made and that DOD intends to go ahead and adopt the concept as a matter of policy. This paper questions both the desirability and the necessity for DOD to do so, since the objectives of 'four-step' can be accomplished in other ways. And these ways do not risk reducing program results, as 'four-step' does. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA053963

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  • Norman Waks

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