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  • Trends in Department of Defense Other Transaction Authority Usage

    CSIS Report

    by Rhys McCormick, Gregory Sanders ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    The federal government’s use of Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements has exploded in recent years, thanks in large part to a surge in popularity within the Department of Defense (DoD). Rather than a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement, OTAs are an acquisition approach that pursues innovation by enabling certain federal agencies to access goods and services outside of the traditional ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Is the Ratio of Investment between Research and Development to Production in Major Defense Acquisition Programs Experiencing Fundamental Change?

    by Rhys McCormick, Gregory Sanders, Andrew P. Hunter ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    With the advent of the information age, both commercial industry and the Department of Defense are moving towards complex R&D-intensive systems over the simpler, mass-produced systems of the industrial age. This CSIS report analyzes the historical trends in the relationship of production costs to development costs in complex acquisition programs. To understand this phenomenon, the study team ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Leveraging Networks in Future Operations

    DISA’s Changing Role in Battle Networks

    by Gregory Sanders, Rhys McCormick ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    A central player in the DoD’s organizational approach to communications is the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Today, DISA manages the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN)—a communications network serving as the core connectivity between the various networks of the military services and defense agencies, operating around the world and across the internet with data storage systems, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Acquisition Trends, 2018

    Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back

    by Rhys McCormick, Andrew P. Hunter, Samantha Cohen, Gregory Sanders ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This report analyzes the current state of affairs in defense acquisition by combining detailed policy and data analysis to provide a comprehensive overview of the current and future outlook for defense acquisition. This analysis will provide critical insights into what DoD is buying, how DoD is buying it, from whom is DoD buying, and what are the defense components buying using data from the ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the Industrial Base, 2000-2013

    by Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders, Rhys McCormick ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This report analyzes contracting for products, services, and research & development (R&D) by the Department of Defense (DoD) and its key components. In provides an in-depth look at trends in DoD contracting since 2000, and provides an initial picture of the impact that sequestration has had on DoD contracting and the supporting industrial base. This fourth edition of the DoD report updates reports ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • National Technology and Industrial Base Integration

    How to Overcome Barriers and Capitalize on Cooperation

    by Rhys McCormick, Samantha Cohen, Andrew P. Hunter, Gregory Sanders ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    In light of Section 881 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which expanded the legal definition of the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB) to include the United Kingdom and Australia, this report informs NTIB partners on barriers and opportunities for effective integration. The expansion of the NTIB is based on the principle that defense trade between the ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

  • Defense Acquisition Trends, 2015

    Acquisition in the Era of Budgetary Constraints

    by Jesse Ellman, Andrew P. Hunter, Rhys McCormick, Gregory Sanders ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This study examines contracting trends at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It relies on empirical analysis of DoD contracting transaction data from the open-source Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). The authors seek to identify and study emergent trends in the contracting data and marry that analysis with discussion of changing goals and methods for the larger acquisition system. ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Army Modernization Imperative

    A New Big Five for the Twenty-First Century

    by Andrew Hunter, Rhys McCormick ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    The U.S. Army currently faces a difficult truth: without changes to its modernization strategy, the Army risks losing qualitative tactical overmatch. A lost procurement decade and recent, significant modernization funding declines have resulted in an Army inventory that remains heavily leveraged on the “Big Five” programs, originally procured in the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile, technology ... Read more

    $50.29 USD

  • Institutional Foundations of Federated Defense

    by Stephanie Sanok Kostro, Rhys McCormick ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This report focuses on the institutional foundations that enable—or, at times, hinder—federated approaches to defense. Successful defense collaboration in a budget-constrained environment is predicated on the ability and willingness of the United States to provide assistance and/or equipment to allies and partners. Accordingly, the report describes the context for refining US institutional ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the Supporting Industrial Base, 2000-2012

    by Gregory Sanders, Jesse Ellman, Rhys McCormick ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    In a time of austerity, the U.S. Department of Defense has drawn budgetary savings primarily from reductions in private-sector contracting. The 2000-2012 edition of this report by National Security Program for Industry and Resources (NSPIR) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) examines this trend as well as its broader implications for defense industrial policy. The report ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Measuring the Impact of Sequestration and the Drawdown on the Defense Industrial Base

    by Rhys McCormick, Andrew P. Hunter, Gregory Sanders ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    The presence of a technologically superior defense industrial base has been a foundation of U.S. strategy since 1945. While the implementation of the budget cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011 has caused concerns for the industrial base, the resulting debate has been lacking in empirical analysis. The purpose of this research is to measure the impact of the current defense drawdown across all ... Read more

    $50.29 USD