When Internal Transfer Prices and Costs Differ: How Stock Funding of Depot-Level Reparables Affects Decision Making in the Air Force

Camm, Frank

Shulman, H. L.

Reference

UNKNO

The Department of Defense (DoD) has sought to take a proactive approach to its environmental concerns but has found it difficult to implement proactive policies in ways that affect decisions made throughout the organization. This study focuses on how commercial firms recognized as having the best environmental management practices in the country have implemented those practices. Among study findings DoD can learn a great deal from commercial firms. DoD should integrate environmental management with its core mission concerns and should develop a formal environmental management program to increase the likelihood that implementation will succeed. Finally, DoD can use Total Quality Management (TQM) to provide formal templates to verify its implementation approach, particularly in the area of pollution prevention. Effective proactive environmental management in central logistics activities could help lead DoD toward broad acceptance of TQM.

Environmental Management in Proactive Commercial Firms: Lessons for Central Logistics Activities in the Department of Defense

Business & Money

Economics

RAND Corporation

How can the Air Force improve its ability to identify the appropriate level of funding for the spare parts that warfighters need?

Effective Treatment of Logistics Resource Issues in the Air Force Planning, Programming, and Bugeting System (PPBS) Process

History

Lewis professor of English Gou, Leslie

Military

<p>New approaches to the acquisition of services and the related policy issues in which the office of the Secretary of Defense is likely to become involved.</p>

Recent Large SErvice Acquisitions in the Department of Defense: Lessons for the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

As the Army transforms its operating force, it must also transform its institutional activities to align them with operating forces and to release resources from institutional activities that the Army can use to add new brigades and weapon systems.

What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities: Executive Summary (2006)

What the Army Needs to Know to Align Its Operational and Institutional Activities, Executive Summary (2006)

The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to promote early production experience with such plants. Facing significant uncertainty about the future, it also wants to limit the cost to the public of doing this. This report offers an analytic way to design and assess packages of policy instruments that the government can use to achieve its goal.

Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels (Technical Report)

Bartis, James T.

Bushman, Charles J.

To summarize trends and identify factors contributing to bid protest activity and outcomes in Air Force procurements, the authors assembled data from Air Force administrative databases on procurement activity and protests and developed statistical models to analyze bid protests.

Analysis of Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections over the Past Two Decades

Light, Thomas

Chenoweth, Mary E.

Rudavsky, Rena

LEWIS, Peter

Recent bid protests have caused large disruptions in resource and operational planning in the Air Force, even leading to the cancellation of the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter program. Some tactics that the Air Force could use to counter such protests in the future include simplifying and clarifying selection criteria and priorities, explaining how its cost estimates are developed, and involving attorneys in external review of bids. 

Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Selections: Evidence and Options (Documented Briefings)

The Inspector General of the Air Force (SAF/IG) is leading an Air Force–wide effort to reduce the burden of Air Force inspection activities while also improving the quality of oversight the inspection system provides. In 2010, SAF/IG asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to join in this effort. This report presents primary data RAND collected on the Air Force inspection system and identifies effective inspection and information collection practices that the Air Force might emulate.

Charting the Course for a New Air Force Inspection System (Technical Report)

Kim, Julie

Werber, Laura

Wilke, Elizabeth

Management & Leadership

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