Laura H Baldwin - Böcker

This report, originally prepared as an annotated briefing, discusses the recommendations of the economics and business management literatures on issues related to outsourcing. It is found that organizations should outsource those activities that c...

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Describes best commercial practices for purchasing services that are analogous to services the Air Force purchases to support its installations The authors examine whether and how well-respected commercial firms apply performance-based practices w...

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Discusses the complexities of, and recommends a methodology for, measuring changes in service costs incurred by the military. The 2002 National Defense Authorization Act set goals for the Department of Defense to achieve savings in service contrac...

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To assist the Air Force in the process of significantly changing the way it purchases goods and services, this monograph reviews related commerical-sector framework of metrics to track progress and refine procurement-workforce-development efforts ...

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For the past several years, the U.S. Air Force has been using data from the Individual Contracting Action Report form, also known as the DD350, to analyze its goods and services expenditures. For this study, the authors collected data from Air For...

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This study examines contingency purchases made in theater to support U.S. Air Force activities during Operation Iraqi Freedom in fiscal years 2003 and 2004. It develops a custom database to determine the types of goods and services purchased and i...

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