Can the Current Acquisition Process Meet Operational Needs?

Abstract

Since the 1950s the acquisition system has been modified and changed many times to clean up the system and prevent fraud, waste, and mismanagement. However, the system had become too big, cumbersome, and unresponsive to meet operational needs. In 1985 the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, the Packard Commission, was established to make recommendations for new reform. In June 1986 the commission published its final report that made sweeping recommendations. Those recommendations were implemented by the National Security Decision Directive 219 in April 1986, the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act in October 1986, and the Defense Management Report in July 1989. Since then, many changes have occurred that have improved operational perspective and jointness in acquisition planning, linked national security objectives to system acquisition, and improved acquisition management.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA329991

Entities

People

  • Craig V. Bendorf

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Communication Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Program Management
  • Students
  • Systems Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.