The Department of Defense (DoD) has a long history of seeking improvements in the way it goes about buying new weapon systems. In the past two decades alone, DoD has mounted two distinct movements that each carried the title "Acquisition Reform" (AR).' In the 1980s, reform efforts focused on reducing "waste, fraud, and abuse" in the system. In the 1990s, the emphasis shifted toward trying to make the acquisition process ...
This report documents the principal findings of a study on exploring innovative ways for acquiring advanced technologies to meet future Army needs- namely, using public-private partnerships (PPPs). This report is an updated and expanded version of a paper presented at the Army Materiel Command (AMC) executive Steering Committee meeting in April 1997. At that time, the focus of the study was limited to generating revenue ...
Despite conducting substantial research and development, the Army is facing a series of constraints in maintaining its technological edge: (1) future reductions in science and technology (S&T) funding that have averaged 15 percent per year over the past few years; (2) commercial domination of many of the important technological areas for the Army, such as information technologies; (3) growth in international technology capabilities and in competition from European and Japanese ...
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