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Defense acquisition: improved program outcomes are possible: statement of Louis J. Rodrigues, Director, Defense Acquisitions Issues
U.S. Government
Paperback. Books LLC, Reference Series 2011-09-30.
ISBN 9781234167080
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Original publisher: Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington, D.C. 20013) : The Office, [1998]. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)38987501 Subject: Defense contracts -- United States. Excerpt: ... DOD procedural changes. Part of the reason is that although shares responsibility for determining what is important in managing an individual program, its traditional approach has been to maintain an " arm's length " relationship with prime contractors and have little involvement with suppliers. On the JDAM, DOD was able to create a better environment for fostering mutual benefits between defense prime contractors and their suppliers. The differences in the practices employed by the leading commercial firms Differences in Practices DOD and are not necessarily explainable by differences in tools, techniques, Reflect Different or talent. Rather, the differences in the actual practices reflect the Incentives different demands imposed on programs by the culture or environment in which they were managed. Indeed, the way success and failure are defined for commercial and defense product developments differs considerably, which creates a different set of incentives and different behaviors from the people managing the programs. Specific practices take root and are sustained because they help a program succeed in its environment. In this sense, practices are adopted because they work - not because they are textbook solutions. In our transition to production review, we observed that, with the possible exception of having more experience with repeated product developments than a DOD program manager, commercial program managers were not better or more ethical than their DOD counterparts. On supplier relations, we noted that it is a major undertaking for a firm to commit the resources to implement an active supplier policy. Such a commitment is not based on altruism or management theory; rather, the commitment comes from the desire to maintain a competitive edge in preserving or increasing
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