Defense Industry Restructuring: Cost and Savings Issues.

Abstract

This report discusses the General Accounting Office's work on the costs and savings associated with defense industry restructuring. The issue of whether the Department of Defense (DOD) should be paying defense companies for restructuring costs associated with acquisitions and mergers has been a controversial one-and one that is not well understood. Provided is a brief overview of DOD's decision to pay restructuring costs; the process DOD uses to ensure that paying restructuring costs is in the government's best interest, and the amount and nature of costs that DOD has paid and estimates of savings it has realized.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA324503

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Defense Industry
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fixed Price Contracts
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Regulations
  • Space Systems

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics