Going the Distance: Leveraging the Benefits of Competition Throughout the Life of a Program

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) strives to foster competition; however, like many government agencies, the DoD tends to view competition as occurring only during the contracting process, rather than as a dynamic tool for achieving success over the life of a program. Most DoD programs today award development and production contracts to a single prime contractor or contractor team. Using this single-provider approach, the DoD fails to maintain "continuous life-cycle competition" -- the use of competition to motivate contractor performance throughout the life of a program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA608629

Entities

People

  • Chang Su
  • Mike Janiga
  • Rodney Stevens

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Competition
  • Complex Systems
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Overruns
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Life Cycles
  • Military Acquisition
  • Models
  • Production
  • Program Management
  • Prototypes
  • Satellite Guided Weapons

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).