Command and Control: Defense's Use of Engineering Contractors for Acquiring Automated Systems

Abstract

The Department of Defense depends on in-house and outside technical expertise to design and develop highly complex command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) systems. Defense relies on engineering support contractors for advice and direction on automated data processing software engineering, system architecture, and hardware design and development. In November 1989 you asked us to determine the extent to which Defense uses engineering support contractors. As agreed in later discussions with your office, this report describes the kinds of services these contractors perform and the cost of the contracts

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA267431

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Command And Control
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Procurement
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control