Proceedings of the Federal Acquisition Research Symposium with Theme: Government, Industry, Academe: Synergism for Acquisition Improvement, Held at the Williamsburg Hilton and National Conference Center, Williamsburg, Virginia on 7-9 December 1983

The 1983 Federal Acquisition Research Symposium was sponsored by the Department of Defense and Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and hosted by the Department of the Air Force at the Williamsburg Hilton and National Conference Center in Williamsburg, Virginia, 7-9 December. The theme was Government, Industry, Academe Synergism for Acquisition Improvement. The proceedings contains 93 papers presented at the symposium on the following subjects acquisition automation, acquisition information management, acquisition risk and uncertainty, acquisition strategy, acquisition workforce, balancing government and industry interactions, capital investment initiatives, competition, contracting methods, contracting strategy, cost applications, cost growth control, cost impact of prod rate variation, estimating and pricing analysis, industrial preparedness, ., integrated logistics support, management of support resources, market research and analysis, multinational applications and innovations, product assurance, program manage- ment, related aspects of productivity improvement, socio-economic considerations, and source selection.