Privatization of Depot Level Maintenance: Achieving Savings While Maintaining Readiness.

Abstract

The end of the cold war led to significant reductions in defense spending and corresponding reductions in force structure. However, constrained budgets created a severe lack of funding for equipment modernization. A major hurdle facing DoD is how to create resources needed to modernize the force, while maintaining readiness. The support structure, which has not declined in proportion to force structure, is one source of funding. Maintenance depots constitute a major component of the support structure. The central theme of this study is to analyze if DoD can create significant savings by privatizing more depot level maintenance and simultaneously balance readiness, sustainment, and private sector reliability. This study concludes that greater privatization increases savings, which DoD can use to modernize and sustain the force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA326785

Entities

People

  • Clarence C. Newby

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerospace Industry
  • Air Force
  • Base Closures
  • Cold War
  • Department Of Defense
  • Government Employees
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics