Defense

of Winged Defense from a 1919 lecture given by Captain Thomas Hart on the value of submarines in warfare. With his lack of evidence and knowledge exposed, Mitchell had no chance of exoneration by the court. While Mitchell’s court-martial proceeded into December, the Morrow Board submitted its report to President Coolidge regarding the possibility and predicted outcome of bolstering the Air Service. Unfortunately, their findings did not meet Mitchell’s expectations, as the report rejected the…

The current fiscal environment continues to highlight challenges of U.S. Defense Acquisitions to support the Joint Force Commander (JFC). Continued technical proficiency deficits in personnel, cost over-runs, performance issues, and missed production and delivery deadlines plague efforts to provide the JFC with goods and services. Moreover, Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition risks continue to increase. Constantly changing requirements, reliance on multiple processes and policies, and…

America. The effect of this thinking has led many to support the government’s decrease of federal spending on big ticket items, in particular, the Department of Defense. One of the most common arguments revolve around the fact that the United States spends more money on the defense budget that a half dozen countries combined (U.S. Defense Spending Compared to Other Countries). The stakeholders in the argument essentially would be the American people. Decreasing the national debt would have a…

The Department of Defense(DOD) for the United States, founded in 1947, is the largest national employer. The department employing 1.3 million service members and seven hundred forty-two thousand civilian employees (USDoD). Currently in charge of the department is Secretory James Mettis. Their mission statement is located on the website, “Provide military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the country.” (USDoD). They work to fulfill their mission statement with nearly six…

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is a multifaceted organization, providing expertise to America and our allies in order to reduce the potential threat of weapons of mass destruction. This organization was developed to mitigate the potential threat, providing reach-back capabilities, eliminate, and reduce the usage of any chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosives. We will discuss the creation of the organization, the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat…

Organization Overview The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) was established in 1991 by the Secretary of Defense to standardize accounting and financial operations and reduce costs associated with these services (“Agency Overview,” n.d.). DFAS is the official finance and accounting arm of the Department of Defense, therefore, it is a federal government agency. Located around the globe, DFAS has over 12,000 employees. The majority of employees work at one of the five primary sites…

Lynx Defense Range Bag This bag is made in the USA in Sanford North Carolina, and it is Berry Amendment compliant under USC, Title 10, and Section 2533a. What is the Berry Amendment and what does it have to do with a range bag anyway. The Berry Amendment is a statutory requirement that restricts the Department of Defense (DoD) from using funds appropriated or otherwise available to DoD for procurement of food, clothing, fabrics, fibers, yarns, other made-up textiles, and hand or measuring tools…

Introduction Currently being a contractor for the Department of Defense (DOD), I chose to write my paper on performance-based logistics. Acquisition Logistics Engineering (2013) defines performance-based logistics as, The current approach for reducing the logistic footprint in operational environments while increasing overall warfighting capability and reducing cost. It calls for establishing long-term agreements between the developer and the warfighter on exactly what the support requirements…

occupants from IEDs. However, a protracted conflict between the requirements based Defense Acquisition System and the politically charged “moral imperative” to reduce causalities, delayed further MRAP fielding for nearly 3-years. This delay resulted in 1,600 preventable U.S. deaths. The Department of Defense (DOD) eventually fielded large quantities of MRAPs utilizing a highly tailored approach to the Defense Acquisition System (DAS). DOD should utilize the MRAP rapid acquisition approach…

Federal policy mandates that an Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) is required for all phases of the Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP). The APB ensures that the legal requirements as set forth in Title 10 USC 2435, 2220 as well as DODI 5000.02 for all (ACAT) initiatives. The (PM) or Program Manager is charged in creating the APB the established and mandated criteria, and for overseeing the baseline thresholds relating to schedule, costs, and Key Performance Parameters (KPPs) are met.…