Integrated Cost Analysis Teams: How ICATs Support Better Buying Power 2.0

Abstract

John DelGreco starts each morning at 0600 at the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) Raytheon Tewksbury Contract Management Office (CMO). He s been doing it a while. January 2014 represented the start of his 27th year as a contract price/cost analyst at DCMA. Over the course of his career, he has seen many changes within the agency and the pricing career field. In the early 1990s, with mandatory personnel reductions, the pricing function began its slow move away from DCMA and toward the buying commands. When DelGreco first started at DCMA, 12 price/cost analysts and six cost monitors assigned to the CMO were performing pricing work. By 2008, only two price/cost analysts remained at the CMO. In April 2009, however, this was all set to change as Ashton Carter was appointed the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA608786

Entities

People

  • Jason B. Newman

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Reductions
  • Costs
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Military Acquisition
  • Negotiations
  • Procurement
  • Supply Chain

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  • Industrial Economics
  • Military Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting