Defense Acquisitions. DOD Needs to Exert Management and Oversight to Better Control Acquisition of Services

Abstract

Negative outcomes should be no surprise given the convergence of DOD's growing reliance on contractors to provide services and long-standing problems with contract management. These problems ill-defined requirements, inadequate competition, ineffective management and surveillance of contractor performance, and inappropriate uses of other agencies contracts have resulted in outcomes that have cost the department valuable resources. These problems are not new and, if they remain unresolved, will only continue to waste DOD s resources. However, the department is not in a good position to address these long-standing problems. DOD does not know where it wants service acquisitions to be in the next few years or how to get there. DOD is taking some steps to address these problems but much remains to be done.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 17, 2007
Accession Number
ADA460660

Entities

People

  • Katherine V. Schinasi

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Educational Psychology