Acquisition Reform
Author(s)
Sapolsky, Harvey
McKinney, Ethan
Gholz, Eugene
Date Issued
June 1994
Abstract
This report reviews the six most recent major acquisition reform reports, starting in 1949 with the Hoover Commissions and including McNamara's Total Package Procurement, Fitzhugh Commission, the Commission on Government Procurement,the Grace Commission, and ending with the Packard Commission report in 1986.
The reports' recommendations are devided into six areas: centralized procurement, professionalization of the acquisition corps, management improvements, changes in contracting procedures, new development strategies, and legislative/executive relations.
Subjects
weapons acquisition
Hoover Commissions
acquisition
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