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Author: Karen Nigara Publisher: Universal-Publishers ISBN: 1581122209 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 129
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For my thesis I studied government A-76 studies and outsourcing in general. Specifically my goal was to determine the efficiency resulting from these often timely and intensive studies. To do this I first looked at several functional areas to include Army Depot level maintenance, Training and Professional Development, family housing or the Residential Communities Initiative, and the Logistics Civil Augmentation program. I then looked at specific installation A-76 studies for three installations, FT Belvoir, Virginia, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, and Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. My intent was to study a variety of different cases with different circumstances to include those in which the government operation presided and those in which a contract was awarded.The data gathered is actual data from public documents and numerous interviews with staff officials involved in the A-76 process.In addition I researched the congruent A-76 programs of the other Department of Defense services, the Navy, Air Force and Marines. This study is intended to serve as a comparative analysis to the U.S. Army program and provide a basis for comparison and evaluation of progress. I concluded that the in most cases, actual process of A-76 itself fostered efficiency either in the actual downsizing of government employees or in the increased efficiency of existing work forces due primarily to the detailed study of the work force and its work load. Staffs that did a good job in the A-76 study worked towards a leaner and more efficient staff focused on mission essential tasks. The end result, doing the essential elements of work required with the appropriate staff did save the government dollars with the added benefit of increased efficiency.
Author: Karen Nigara Publisher: Universal-Publishers ISBN: 1581122209 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 129
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For my thesis I studied government A-76 studies and outsourcing in general. Specifically my goal was to determine the efficiency resulting from these often timely and intensive studies. To do this I first looked at several functional areas to include Army Depot level maintenance, Training and Professional Development, family housing or the Residential Communities Initiative, and the Logistics Civil Augmentation program. I then looked at specific installation A-76 studies for three installations, FT Belvoir, Virginia, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, and Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. My intent was to study a variety of different cases with different circumstances to include those in which the government operation presided and those in which a contract was awarded.The data gathered is actual data from public documents and numerous interviews with staff officials involved in the A-76 process.In addition I researched the congruent A-76 programs of the other Department of Defense services, the Navy, Air Force and Marines. This study is intended to serve as a comparative analysis to the U.S. Army program and provide a basis for comparison and evaluation of progress. I concluded that the in most cases, actual process of A-76 itself fostered efficiency either in the actual downsizing of government employees or in the increased efficiency of existing work forces due primarily to the detailed study of the work force and its work load. Staffs that did a good job in the A-76 study worked towards a leaner and more efficient staff focused on mission essential tasks. The end result, doing the essential elements of work required with the appropriate staff did save the government dollars with the added benefit of increased efficiency.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Leveraging technology for a competitive advantage is a crucial element of the US Army's future. New US Army doctrinal concepts utilize technology to gain information superiority in unprecedented fashion. Information superiority becomes a decisive point for attaining mission accomplishment. The information system employed by future US Army organizations is the means of achieving information superiority. Outsourcing provides a means of leveraging technology for an advantage. Outsourcing is so successful that it has created its own industry in the 1990s. The Department of Defense capitalizes on the advantages of outsourcing to gain significant benefits. The question that this monograph answers is whether a Light Infantry Division should outsource all, or a part of, its information system. The monograph examines extending the outsourcing trend to a Light Infantry Division to see if there is a limit in replacing signal soldiers and military equipment with contractors. The monograph answers this question by using an analytical model that is recommended by information management professionals in the private sector. Examination begins by identifying the relevance of outsourcing to the US military. Next, the monograph introduces a core identification model used by information system professionals to analyze outsourcing decisions. The monograph identifies the components of the Light Infantry Division's information system and then analyzes the components within the context of the identification model. The monograph concludes that outsourcing will gain an ever increasing role in the Light Infantry Division. Outsourcing will leverage near-term advantages for the division during crisis response scenarios. Outsourcing will also assist in obtaining information superiority for the future experimental Light Infantry Division design.
Author: Bruce E. Stanley Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1612347177 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 237
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Faced with a decreasing supply of national troops, dwindling defense budgets, and the ever-rising demand for boots on the ground in global conflicts and humanitarian emergencies, decision makers are left with little choice but to legalize and legitimize the use of private military contractors (PMCs). Outsourcing Security examines the impact that bureaucratic controls and the increasing permissiveness of security environments have had on the U.S. military’s growing use of PMCs during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bruce E. Stanley examines the relationship between the rise of the private security industry and five potential explanatory variables tied to supply-and-demand theory in six historical cases, including Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the U.S. intervention in Bosnia in 1995, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Outsourcing Security is the only work that moves beyond a descriptive account of the rise of PMCs to lay out a precise theory explaining the phenomenon and providing a framework for those considering PMCs in future global interaction.
Author: Michael Robillard Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190671459 Category : Civil-military relations Languages : en Pages : 241
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"Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society which they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members been uniquely exploited insofar as they have disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's collective war-fighting decisions since the inception of the all-volunteer force post-Vietnam and particularly since 9/11? In this work, Michael Robillard and Bradley Strawser argue that many of American soldiers have indeed been exploited in this unique way. By offering their original normative theory of 'moral exploitation'; the notion that persons or groups can be wrongfully exploited by being made to shoulder an excessive amount of moral responsibility, moral risk, and exposure to 'dirty hands', Robillard and Strawser make the case that such a state of affairs indeed describes America's present relationship with her military. By offering a thorough and in-depth analysis of some of the exploitative and misleading elements of present-day military recruitment, the pernicious civil-military divide existing between military members and the civilian principle both within the organs of government and the public at large, and the stifling effect that 'Thank You for Your Service', 'I support the troops' culture has had on serious public engagement concerning America's ongoing wars, Robillard and Strawser offer a tour de force of eye-opening arguments on the demoralizing state of affairs for the American soldier. They conclude by arguing for several normative and prudential prescriptions to help close this ever-widening fissure existing between America and its military and existing within America herself. In so doing, their work gives a much needed and urgent voice to America's other 1%"--
Author: John C. Kilgallon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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This paper examines the state of the Army's information technology (IT) acquisition workforce, in light of the push for outsourcing. It then makes recommendations to improve the workforce. For the last few decades, a variety of market forces and government initiatives have pushed the Army to outsource IT system development. From having entire units of government programmers and hardware engineers, the Army has steadily moved toward outsourcing, using commercial industry to design and build its IT solutions. But at the same time the Army has moved away from designing and building its own IT systems, IT has become more prevalent and pervasive within the Army. It has become even more critical to Army success in the field. Almost every Army system fielded today contains some sort of computer system. In this era of net-centric warfare, these computer systems are expected to share information with each other securely and efficiently. It is these interconnections that have helped the Army fight and win in recent wars. There is mounting evidence in the military, the federal government, and private industry that too much outsourcing can be a bad thing. It can leave an organization without the talent needed to oversee the outsourced work, and eliminate a career ladder that allows Army IT leaders to learn their trade before making multi-million dollar procurement decisions. Congress has realized this in the last few years, and is beginning to push the armed services to strengthen their control over IT outsourcing efforts. This paper makes the case for the uniqueness of IT acquisition as compared to the acquisition of non-IT products and for the need of skilled and experienced Army IT acquisition professionals and leaders to oversee the contractors and ensure quality results. It analyzes the current Army IT acquisition workforce along with current Army and DoD policy. From this analysis, it determines that there is much confusion over the exact duties that the IT Acquisition Workforce should be performing, there is no single entity responsible for shaping and developing the workforce, there is inadequate technical education and training, and finally that there is a lack of hands-on development experience that would help in overseeing the commercial contractors doing the work. The paper offers several recommendations to strengthen the Army's IT acquisition workforce including: determining the specific duties and responsibilities of the IT Acquisition Professional, centrally managing the entire workforce, formalizing a mid-career hiring program, creating a non-management technical track, and keeping some technical work inhouse to train government personnel so that they can better understand and oversee contractor's technical efforts.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Contracting out Languages : en Pages : 87
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"Outsourcing Small Wars: Expanding the Role of Private Military Companies in U.S. Military Operations" argues that, under current domestic and international laws, and current military regulations and doctrine, the U.S. Army could, with only a few uniformed personnel, employ a force consisting of predominately private military companies (PMCs) to fight a non-vital interest U.S. small war. This work identifies a historical U.S. willingness to outsource operations that are traditionally conducted by its uniformed military; categorizes outsourcing as surrogate warfare and, therefore, manageable by U.S. Army Special Forces; addresses some of the risks involved with outsourcing; and analyzes the legal environment in which PMCs operate in today today's environment. The recommendation from this thesis includes an illustration of how a Special Forces-led private military force should be organized, paying particular attention to the key components of the contract.
Author: Ann Hagedorn Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416598812 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 320
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"The story behind the ultimate American privatization, which has taken place gradually and almost invisibly: how we privatized our national security"--
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Readiness Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 136
Author: Joakim Berndtsson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317042212 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 443
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Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in which states have come to rely on private contractors to support interventions. Part One puts into context the evolution of outsourcing in Western states that are actively involved in expeditionary operations as well as the rise of the commercial security sector in Afghanistan. To explain the various theoretical frameworks that students can use to study security/military outsourcing, Part Two outlines the theories behind security outsourcing. Part Three examines the law and ethics surrounding the outsourcing of security by focusing on how states might monitor contractor behaviour, hold them to account and prosecute them where their behaviour warrants such action. The drivers, politics and consequences of outsourcing foreign policy are covered in Part Four, which is divided into two sections: section one is concerned with armed contractors (providing the provision of private security with the main driver being a capability gap on the part of the military/law enforcement agencies), and section two looks at military contractors (supporting military operations right back to antiquity, less controversial politically and often technologically driven). The final Part takes into consideration emerging perspectives, exploring areas such as gender, feminist methodology, maritime security and the impact of private security on the military profession. This book will be of much interest to students of military and security studies, foreign policy and International Relations.
Author: Strategic Studies Strategic Studies Institute Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781505563375 Category : Languages : en Pages : 30
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The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mark an era of unprecedented outsourcing in contingency operations. Although significant outsourcing occurred in prior wars, never has the scale been so large for so long. Counterintuitively, as outsourcing increased, the number of government acquisition personnel decreased. This led to waste, fraud, and abuse. The Commission on Wartime Contracting made several findings and recommendations to prevent future contract administration problems in contingency operations. A principal concern is that the U.S. military needs to increase the number of acquisition experts, change its culture, and treat government contracting as a core competency. In response to outsourcing concerns, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued Policy Letter 11-01 on the Performance of Inherently Governmental and Critical Functions. The Letter provides strategic-level guidance to federal agencies to assess risk and accountability when outsourcing. Although the Letter provides helpful guidance, it is only a first step. More is needed to prevent the contract administration failures of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from recurring. This Paper examines further-needed steps and ways in which the U.S. military can change its culture and make government contracting a core competency
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Author: Ann Hagedorn
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Readiness
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Author: Strategic Studies Strategic Studies Institute