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Price-based acquisition (PBA), a major acquisition reform measure being used by the Department of Defense (DoD), is claimed to reduce costs and enhance acquisition efficiency. This study presents findings based on structured interviews and case studies to determine whether the claims are true and what potential benefits PBA may hold for DoD. ... Read more

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Making future DoD models and simulations more composable. ... Read more

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Commercial facilities have discovered that pursuing integrated, facilitywideapproaches to environmental management is good for the environment and makesgood business sense.Direct benefits can include cost savings, increasedoperational flexibility, and improved public image.But despite thebenefits, implementation can be difficult, as Department of Defense (DoD)installations have discovered while trying such integrated approaches.Commercial facilities similar to DoD installations offer insights about howto implement integrated approaches successfully.Demonstrated successfactors include getting and sustaining high-level leadership support forchange until change is complete, which will take time; implementing aneffective environmental management system, often based on an internationalenvironmental management standard, ISO 14001, throughout the organization;establishing proactive environmental goals and activities with clearrelationships to the organization1s core values and mission; training andmotivating personnel; using creative environmental assessment and prioritysetting techniques; developing good relationships with all stakeholders.The commercial lessons offered here can help DoD and other organizationsimplement integrated facilitywide approaches to environmental management. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Armed Forces Comptroller, published by American Society of Military Comptrollers on June 22, 2001. The length of the article is 3599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Department of Defense's Business Case for Smart Card Technology.('Common Access Card' for identification being issued by the Dept. of Defense)
Author: Mary Dixon
Publication: Armed Forces Comptroller (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2001
Publisher: American Society of Military Comptrollers
Volume: 46Issue: 3Page: 40

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US Department of Defense Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information, Organization, Policies ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Armed Forces Comptroller, published by American Society of Military Comptrollers on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1341 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: We're talking SFIS: introducing the common business language of DoD.(Standard Financial Information Structure, Department of Defense)
Author: Christine Wenrich
Publication: Armed Forces Comptroller (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: American Society of Military Comptrollers
Volume: 50Issue: 2Page: 19(3)

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DSMC 2000-2001.
By Warren M. Anderson, et al. 
Sumarizes the conclusions drawn form a year long study by fellows selected by the Defense Acquisition University concerning the problem of the effectiveness of the Department of Defense’s implementation of outsourcing, privatization, and commercial acquisition practices.

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This digital document is an article from Defense Transportation Journal, published by National Defense Transportation Association on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 862 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Department of Defense.(GOVERNMENT)
Author: Donald H. Rumsfeld
Publication: Defense Transportation Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: National Defense Transportation Association
Volume: 61Issue: 2Page: 16(2)

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The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must prepare now to transition smoothly to a future in which it does not depend on petroleum. This is no small task: up to 77 percent of DOD s massive energy needs and most of the aircraft, ground vehicles, ships and weapons systems that DOD is purchasing today depend on petroleum for fuel. In Fueling the Future Force: Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Era, report authors Christine Parthemore and John Nagl argue that to ready America's armed forces for tomorrow's challenges, DOD should ensure that it can operate all of its systems on non-petroleum fuels by 2040. Parthemore and Nagl recommend 12 specific guiding principles that will help DOD map a path forward that relies on technological innovation, fuel source diversification and efficiency to hedge against price spikes and scarcities and to accommodate America's economic, political and environmental needs. The authors argue that by planning now around these likely future conditions, DOD can weather change, protect its own interests, reduce its vulnerability to extreme price spikes and most importantly ensure that it can meet its mandate to protect the nation's security. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Armed Forces Comptroller, published by American Society of Military Comptrollers on September 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1494 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Department of Defense Budget and the 106th Congress.
Author: Ronnette Coffman
Publication: Armed Forces Comptroller (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2000
Publisher: American Society of Military Comptrollers
Volume: 45Issue: 3Page: 42

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Contrary to widespread perceptions, program office personnel do not spend inordinate amounts of time on statutory and regulatory compliance activities. Further, the authors could not identify any areas in which policy change or streamlining implementation would save significant dollars in program management funds, reduce personnel, or improve program outcomes. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from U.S. Department of Defense Speeches, published by U.S. Department of Defense Speeches on September 18, 2009. The length of the article is 514 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: POW/MIA Recognition Day.
Author: Robert M. Gates
Publication: U.S. Department of Defense Speeches (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 18, 2009
Publisher: U.S. Department of Defense Speeches
Page: NA

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Surveys the history of the Department of Defense and describes its structure, current function, and influence on American society. ... Read more

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This report presents an analysis of the pay competitiveness, and quality of employees recruited and retained, for civilian scientific and engineering positions in Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories. This study uses pay, promotion, performance, and demographic data drawn from personnel records on scientists and engineers (S/Es) employed in DoD labs from 1982 through 1996. This report examines whether "returns to skills" (increases in pay due to investments in worker skills, such as higher education or on-the-job training that increases productivity) rose in the DoD labs during 1982 through 1996 as they did in the private sector. The report also analyzes whether there were changes in the quality of S/E lab employees the DoD was able to attract and retain during that period. For DoD lab scientists and engineers, the report finds little evidence of changes in returns to skills or the quality of the workforce. Similarly, little evidence exists that the quality of S/Es hired or retained declined during the defense drawdown in the 1990s. The report also analyzes whether personnel outcomes differed among three pay systems: the General Schedule (GS), the Performance Management Recognition System (PMRS), and the experimental China Lake system. The study finds little evidence that the additional flexibility in personnel management provided by the PMRS or China Lake pay systems led to substantially different personnel outcomes for the S/E segment of the DoD labor force. ... Read more