Baselining Defense Acquisition

by Tim Conley, Irv Blickstein, William Shelton, et al.

In support of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) efforts to improve mission effectiveness and efficiency, this report identifies DoD government functions for procurement and acquisition, estimating their costs at between $29 billion and $38 billion. As a percentage of DoD contracting obligations, the program management portion of these costs have been about 1.5 percent, which is below industry benchmarks of 2 to 15 percent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197740202X
• ISBN13: 9781977402028
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"