Defense acquisition trends, 2015 : acquisition in the era of budgetary constraints : a report of Defense Outlook

Defense acquisition trends, 2015 : acquisition in the era of budgetary constraints : a report of Defense Outlook / principal authors Jesse Ellman, Andrew P. Hunter, Rhys McCormick, Gregory Sanders, contributing authors Kaitlyn Johnson, Gabriel Coll.

Acquisition, Budgets, Force Structure, and Strategy all have critical distinctions and underlying interlinkages. The new CSIS initiative, Defense Outlook: A CSIS Series on Strategy, Budget, Forces, and Acquisition, aims to better explain each element of the continuum by better understanding the way...

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Main Authors: Ellman, Jesse (Author), Hunter, Andrew P. (Author), McCormick, Rhys (Author), Johnson, Kaitlyn (Author), Coll, Gabriel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2016.
Series:CSIS series on strategy, budget, forces, and acquisition.
Subjects:
United States. > Department of Defense > Procurement.
United States. > Department of Defense > Appropriations and expenditures.
United States. > Department of Defense
Defense contracts > United States.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Armed Forces > Procurement
Defense contracts
Expenditures, Public
United States > Armed Forces > Procurement.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Figures; Tables; Executive Summary; What Is DoD Buying?; Birth of the Defense Innovation Initiative-Third Offset Strategy; A Five-Year Trough Has Developed in the Weapon Systems Pipeline; Services Contracts Surprisingly Resilient; How Is DoD Buying?; Major Acquisition Reform Efforts in 2015 Will Take Time to Deliver Results; Effective Competition Rates Are Steady, Despite Desire to Promote Competition; Contract Outcomes Can Be Examined Using Contract Data; Whom Is DoD Buying From?; Small Vendors Accounted for Their Largest-Ever Share of Defense Contracts in 2014.
  • The Big 5 Defense Vendors Are Winning a Declining Share of R & D Contract ObligationsThe Present and Future of Defense Industry Consolidation; DoD Starts with a Narrow But Sustained Base for Outreach to Silicon Valley; What Are the Defense Components Buying?; Service Acquisition Portfolios Are Shifting In Distinct Ways; Army; Navy; Air Force; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Report Organization; 1.2. DoD Contract Spending in a Budgetary Context; 2. What Is DoD Buying?; 2.1. Innovation, R & D, and Technological Superiority; 2.1.1. Defense Innovation Initiative-"Third Offset Strategy."
  • 2.1.2. Defense Innovation Unit Experimental: Finding New Sources of Innovation2.1.3. Research and Development Contracting during the Budget Drawdown; 2.2. Defense Contract Obligations by Platform Portfolio; 2.3. Defense Contract Obligations by Budget Account; 2.3.1. Procurement; 2.3.2. Operations & Maintenance; 2.3.3. Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; 3. How Is DoD Buying It?; 3.1. Reforming the Defense Acquisition System; 3.1.1. Better Buying Power; 3.1.2. 2016 National Defense Authorization Act; 3.2. Contract and Fee Type.
  • 3.3. Defense Contract Obligation by Rate of Effective Competition3.4. Contract Outcomes beyond the Headlines; 3.4.1. Terminations; 3.4.2. Change Orders; 4. Whom Is DoD Buying From?; 4.1. Changes in the Composition of the Defense Industrial Base; 4.1.1. Army; 4.1.2. Navy; 4.1.3. Air Force; 4.1.4. Defense Logistics Agency; 4.1.5. Products; 4.1.6. Services; 4.1.7. Research and Development; 4.2. The Present and Future Consolidation of Defense Industry; 4.2.1. Top Products Vendors; 4.2.2. Top Services Vendors; 4.2.3. Top Research and Development Vendors.
  • 4.3. Silicon Valley Participation in the Defense Industrial Base4.3.1. Narrow Silicon Valley Base; 4.3.2. Persistence in the Top Tier, Tumult Below; 4.3.3. Silicon Valley Avoids Drawdown and Budget Cap Cuts Thanks to HP; 4.3.4. Implications for the Future; 5. What Are the Defense Components Buying?; 5.1. Army; 5.2. Navy; 5.3. Air Force; 5.4. Defense Logistics Agency; 5.5. Missile Defense Agency; 5.6. Other DoD; 6. Conclusion; Appendix A: Methodology; About the Authors.

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