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The contract directed AMS to build the Standard Procurement System through an incremental process on top of the company's existing Procurement Desktop - Defense (PD 2) application. [ 1 ] SPS is one of the first DoD software acquisitions using Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 - Acquisition of Commercial Items rules. [ 2 ]
The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment (OASD(Sustainment)) [3] works with logistics and materiel readiness in the Department of Defense (DoD) and is the principal logistics official within the senior management of the DoD. In this capacity, the ASD(S) prescribes policies and procedures for the conduct of logistics ...
Military acquisition or defense acquisition is the "bureaucratic management and procurement process", [1] dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and support its armed forces. Its objective is to acquire products that satisfy specified needs and ...
The Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act, aimed to professionalize the defense acquisition workforce. The Army DACM Office supports DAWIA-required training, education and experience for the workforce through three main lines of effort. [citation needed]
This official will review, approve, and monitor such testing for each Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP); Appointment of a Director of Systems Engineering, who will be the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on systems engineering, and will develop DoD-wide policies and guidance for the application of systems engineering. This ...
The efforts to structure and advance acquisition led to 5 college-level campuses, producing works such as the Defense Acquisition Guide ; library collections; publications of Defense AT&L Magazine and the Defense Acquisition Review Journal; the development of numerous courses including online learning; and professional conferences.
The NATO Standardization Agency—A Continuing Success Story (PDF). Defense Standardization Program Journal. pp. 3– 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-21; Akşit, Cihangir (2012). The Importance of NATO Standardisation (PDF). Defence Procurement International. pp. 1– 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-21
JCIDS was developed under the direction of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to address shortfalls in the United States Department of Defense (DoD) requirements generation system identified by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. These shortfalls were identified as: not considering new programs in the context of other programs, insufficiently ...