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Accession Number:
ADP002758
Title:
An Analysis of the Acquisition Strategy Decision Process along Three Dimensions of the Acquisition Improvement Program,
Corporate Author:
ARMY ARMAMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER DOVER NJ
Report Date:
1983-01-01
Abstract:
This study investigates the acquisition strategy decision process as it relates to the major themes of the Acquisition Improvement Program AIP. Further, it examines a wide spectrum of acquisition, program, contracting, and industry considerations. The study isolated variables critical to the AS decision process, defined their causal relationships, and produced a causal model. Findings support the notion that a programs effect on the industrial base, readinesssustainability, and cost can be pre-determined from a specific number of program factors. Further, their effects can be enhanced or otherwise altered by a few, key AS approachesfactors. The findings also suggest that programs with limited competition at the subsystem level fare better than those predicted on the extremes of either open competition with component breakout or restricted to a sole source of the systems level that a moderate, middle-of-the-road AS approach is more effective for most programs.
Supplementary Note:
This article is from 'Proceedings of the Federal Acquisition Research Symposium with Theme: Government, Industry, Academe: Synergism for Acquisition Improvement, held at Williamsburg, Virginia on 7-9 December 1983,' AD-A137 700, p64-77.
Pages:
0014
File Size:
0.00MB
