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Directors of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation [3] [4] Name Tenure SecDef(s) served under President(s) served under Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis) Alain C. Enthoven September 10, 1965 – January 20, 1969 Robert S. McNamara. Clark M. Clifford. Lyndon Johnson: Ivan Selin (Acting) January 31, 1969 – January 30, 1970 ...
Initially, TINA only applied to the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, and NASA. Certified cost or pricing data may not be obtained for acquisitions at or below the simplified acquisition threshold. [3] Other exceptions are stated in FAR 15.403-1(b) or may be adopted under a waiver requested by the contracting officer in exceptional ...
As the post-WW2 space programs developed, general research costs came to be seen as ordinary costs of doing business, and in 1959 they were allowed as indirect costs. [36] [37] The 1970 defense appropriations act temporarily limited the funding for the first time, due to concerns about adequate contract administration and benefits for the ...
Cost: A number of cost thresholds exist which trigger increasing degrees of complexity in the acquisition process. These thresholds include the micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, and the commercial items threshold. The micro-purchase threshold, as of August 2007, is generally $3,000, with some exception.
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
Contract administration within DoD has been studied and modified for many years. In the early 1960s, a study was commissioned by the Secretary of Defense to examine the entire DoD contracting process. Known as "Project 60," the findings pointed to numerous benefits of consolidating contract administration and audit.
Cost Accounting Standards (popularly known as CAS) are a set of 19 standards and rules promulgated by the United States Government for use in determining costs on negotiated procurements. CAS differs from the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) in that FAR applies to substantially all contractors, whereas CAS applied primarily to the larger ones.
Within the Department of Defense, she is known for the "Spruill chart", a spreadsheet for estimating the costs of weapons programs that she developed, [1] [2] and for threatening to sue the United States Navy in 1979 because it would not allow her, as a woman, to stay aboard one of its aircraft carriers. [1]