Enhanced Competition: Shaping the Depots after Next.
Abstract
If the U.S. intends to maintain its present military edge into the 21st Century, substantial expenditures in research and procurement will be required. The military's overly-large and expensive maintenance depot system has been identified by virtually all defense observers as a key billpayer for these investments. Although a precise vision cannot yet be articulated, the future maintenance depot system - the Depots After Next - must obviously be better, faster, and cheaper than ever before in order to provide the responsiveness, flexibility, and cost savings needed in a volatile, violent and fiscally-constrained environment. Despite a plethora of rhetoric to the contrary, competition for DoD maintenance depot workload has come to a halt. The benefits of competition will remain unrealized and this vision of better-faster-cheaper Depots After Next will stay unrevealed until the following strategic objectives are accomplished by DoD: (1) rectify depot cost accounting; (2) reduce legal impediments; (3) increase interservicing; (4) rightsize depot core capability; and (5) incentivize the private sector. Only by removing barriers and capitalizing upon the benefits of unrestrained and open competition can optimal fiscal and operational performance be realized by the Depots After Next.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 02, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA344963
Entities
People
- Steven M. Anderson
Organizations
- United States Army War College