Centralized Accounting and Disbursing for Foreign Military Sales. Direct-Cite Procurements: Test Evaluation.

Abstract

Foreign military sales (FMS) have grown significantly in dollar volume. The General Accounting Office has accused the Department of Defense (DOD) of a longstanding inability to manage the FMS program, and recently recommended centralization of accounting and disbursing functions as the best long-range solution to the program's problems. Defense subsequently initiated a limited test of centralization at the Security Assistance Accounting Center. The test involves several major direct-cite procurement contracts, and was designed to form the basis of DOD's response to the Congress regarding the centralized concept. This thesis describes and evaluates this ongoing test, in particular, its relevancy towards the decision of whether or not to expand and implement centralization of the FMS program. The study concludes that, although centralization is not a panacea for all the problems of the U.S. foreign military sales program, and cannot be expected to produce instant solutions, it is an advancement. Until a better alternative is developed, centralization should be pursued. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA110072

Entities

People

  • Roger Allen Willis

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Contract Administration
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Analysis
  • Foreign Military Sales
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • History
  • Information Systems
  • International Organizations
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement

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  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design