Air Force Service Procurement: Approaches for Measurement and Management

Abstract

Chairman and distinguished members: Thank you for inviting me to testify at this panel on "Measuring Value and Risk in Service Contracts." I am a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and currently serve as the Director of the Resource Management Program within Project AIR FORCE. For more than a decade, RAND has conducted a broad portfolio of research on implementing best purchasing and supply management practices within the Department of Defense. My testimony today will describe research I co-led (along with my colleague John Ausink who is here today) that examined successful commercial practices for managing services acquisition and that focused on performance metrics to improve contract outcomes. That research was sponsored by the Air Force Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting (SAF/AQC) and conducted during fiscal year 2003. Here I begin by providing some context for the research, followed by a discussion of what we did, what we found, and how it is relevant to the U.S. Air Force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA498585

Entities

People

  • Laura H. Baldwin

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Commodities
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Homeland Security
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Measurement
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.