Posted by
hob on Thursday, September 16th 2010
Forsvarsminister Gates har nu afsløret sit nye roadmap for hvordan indkøbsprocedurerne indenfor det amerikanske forsvar skal reformeres. Som National Defense Magazines blogger udtrykker det: the party is over. Grundlæggende har der været alt for meget slack i den amerikanske procurement proces, og slet ikke nogen effektivitetsvækst, der er sammenlignelig med tilsvarende civile procurementprocesser. Roadmappet udstikker således nogle generelle principper for hvordan det amerikanske forsvars materialanskaffelser fremadrettet skal organiseres:
The much-anticipated road map for how the Defense Department will save $100 billion over five years has finally been revealed. Anyone who expected a laundry list of big-ticket program terminations or some wizardly formulas that would produce instant “efficiencies” will be disappointed.
What Defense Secretary Robert Gates unveiled today is basically a compilation of standard common-sense procurement practices. Some of these policies have been in existence for decades and, had they been followed properly during the past 10 years, probably would have already saved far more than $100 billion.
For industry, the most worrisome item in the plan is changes in the way contractors are compensated. A system of almost guaranteed “award fees” will be replaced by a regime that rewards performance and efficiency, according to Gates.
The 23-point strategy explains how the Pentagon will squeeze cost savings from the $400 billion a year it spends on goods and support services. The $100 billion in savings, if achieved, will not be cut from the budget top line, Gates stressed, but will be reallocated to high-priority military programs.
Most Americans probably have no idea that the $400 billion the Pentagon spends on contracts is more than half the entire defense budget, Gates noted.
An explosion in contract spending since 9/11 has created a bloated system where productivity is a foreign concept and every problem is fixed by throwing more money at it, Gates said at a news conference.
The “defense economy,” Gates said, has not seen the productivity growth that has been witnessed in the overall U.S. economy. As a result, the taxpayer continues to pay more and receives less.
The much-anticipated road map for how the Defense Department will save $100 billion over five years has finally been revealed. Anyone who expected a laundry list of big-ticket program terminations or some wizardly formulas that would produce instant “efficiencies” will be disappointed.
What Defense Secretary Robert Gates unveiled today is basically a compilation of standard common-sense procurement practices. Some of these policies have been in existence for decades and, had they been followed properly during the past 10 years, probably would have already saved far more than $100 billion.
For industry, the most worrisome item in the plan is changes in the way contractors are compensated. A system of almost guaranteed “award fees” will be replaced by a regime that rewards performance and efficiency, according to Gates. The 23-point strategy explains how the Pentagon will squeeze cost savings from the $400 billion a year it spends on goods and support services. The $100 billion in savings, if achieved, will not be cut from the budget top line, Gates stressed, but will be reallocated to high-priority military programs. Most Americans probably have no idea that the $400 billion the Pentagon spends on contracts is more than half the entire defense budget, Gates noted.
An explosion in contract spending since 9/11 has created a bloated system where productivity is a foreign concept and every problem is fixed by throwing more money at it, Gates said at a news conference. The “defense economy,” Gates said, has not seen the productivity growth that has been witnessed in the overall U.S. economy. As a result, the taxpayer continues to pay more and receives less.
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