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On June 22, 2007, the Joint Program Executive Office issued the first JTRS-Approved radio (not JTRS-Certified) production contract. It gave Harris Corporation $2.7 billion and Thales Communications Inc. $3.5 billion for first-year procurement and allowed the firms to compete for more parts of the five-year program. Harris could make up to $7 ...
A program executive officer, or PEO, is one of a few key individuals in the United States military acquisition process.As can be seen from the examples below, a program executive officer may be responsible for a specific program (e.g., the Joint Strike Fighter), or for an entire portfolio of similar programs (e.g., the Navy PEO for aircraft carriers).
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]
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 ...
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology: John M. Deutch: 2 April 1993 – 11 March 1994: Leslie Aspin, Jr. William J. Perry: Bill Clinton: Paul G. Kaminski: 3 October 1994 – 16 May 1997: William J. Perry William S. Cohen: Bill Clinton: Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics: Jacques S. Gansler
DoD (2007) Acquisition process denoting Milestones A, B, C along a timeline. When a milestone has been met, the triangle then points downward, at this time. Otherwise the milestone is planned, but not yet met at this time. Before a prototype can become a Program of Record, the Army has determined that prototype has a desired capability. [6]
Other services of Media Production include Defense Visual Information Distribution Service [9] and providing internal news and information products for Defense.gov, Army.mil, Navy.mil, Marines.mil, and AF.mil. The Stars and Stripes produces and delivers a newspaper distributed overseas (and online products) for the U.S. military community.
The charter of CREATE is to reduce the cost, time, and risks of DoD acquisition programs by developing and deploying multidisciplinary, physics-based software applications for the design and analysis of military aircraft, naval ships, and radio frequency antenna systems (expanded to include ground vehicles in 2012) by DoD engineering organizations.