An Exploratory Analysis of FMS Delivery Data to Improve Blanket Order Payment Schedule Calculations.
Abstract
The United States Government, to enhance its objectives of peace and security, provides military logistical support to friendly foreign nations through Foreign Military Sales (FMS). By law, the U.S. agencies which manage the FMS programs must ensure they operate those programs without expenditure of U.S. appropriated dollars. Official audits of these agencies revealed their general failure to recover all costs on a timely basis. These audits specifically noted inaccurate payment schedules of FMS cases as a partial cause of this failure. To date, the few efforts to improve payment schedule accuracy have met with little success. To remedy the situation, this thesis was undertaken to perform an exploratory statistical analysis of selected types of blanket order (follow-on support) FMS cases, and to provide an empirical basis for payment schedule accuracy improvement. Specifically, the study ascertains if current FMS blanket order payment schedules do reflect actual delivery behavior. It also makes a determination of whether or not identifiable FMS delivery and ordering patterns exist, and if a relationship exists between specified delivery and ordering pattern types. These tasks are accomplished through statistical testing and the use of computer data analysis. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1982
- Accession Number
- ADA123771
Entities
People
- Charles W. Kowalchuk
- Luanne B. Handley
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology