Defense Acquisition Trends, 2015

Download or read book Defense Acquisition Trends, 2015 written by Jesse Ellman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines contracting trends at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It relies on empirical analysis of DoD contracting transaction data from the open-source Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). The authors seek to identify and study emergent trends in the contracting data and marry that analysis with discussion of changing goals and methods for the larger acquisition system.