Configurations in Management

The report analyzes the effects of legislative acts on the development of business infrastructure in the DoD community. It discusses how these acts led to structural changes and improvements in procurement procedures, acquisition reformations, and single-process initiates. The report concludes that measures should be taken to ensure sustainability towards growth in the DoD community.

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Executive summary:
The aim of this report was to analyze the effects of several legislative acts that have contributed
in the development of business infrastructure in the DoD community. a media and article survey
was conducted to meet the requirements. The results indicate the structural changes that were
witnessed due to the implication of the acts. This report concludes that measures that are more
competitive should be taken to ensure the sustainability towards the growth of the business in the
DoD community.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION:..........................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION:.................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION:..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................6

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INTRODUCTION:
The force unit and the financial infrastructure have witnessed a significant change
following the conclusion of the cold war alongside with its associated industrial partners. US
government solely concentrated on to reduction of deficit and improvement related to the
operational efficiencies in relevance to government agencies. Recapitulations regarding the
single industrial standards involved helped them to acquire efficient specifications to develop
their business and manufacturing systems through the reconstructions in acquisition
methodologies. This report is a representative of the decisions and acts to initiate a business
evolution in DoD community (Chinworth, 2000).
DISCUSSION:
The degradation in the availability of resources caused a limitation in the maintenance of
the weapons in the US force Unit with disadvantage of decreasing funding. The process of
reformation of the acquisitions was objective towards reducing the costs and improving the
operational management through some major initiatives, which would be discussed in the
upcoming sections of the report.
Firstly, the Government Performance Reform Act, established in 1993, focused on the
multi-year strategic objectives and the annual targets and required the involvement of federal
agencies for the allocation procedures (Grimmett & Lange, 2012). Secondly, the Federal
Acquisition streamlining act formed in 1994 had the main objective to provide wider authorities
to the agencies for the purchase of commercial commodities. This act allowed the procurement
officers to purchase discretionary commodities without public competitions, which might be

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stated as a major legislative change. Thirdly, the federal acquisition reform act well stabilized in
1995, which was designated to simplify the procurement procedures by raising thresholds related
to sole-source procurements (Grimmett & Lange, 2012). Next to this is the Information
Technology reform act activated in 1995 is one of the crucial legislations helping the government
to link their technological plans, which required a chief information officer to manage the agency
missions and goals.
Next relevant act was the reformation of Military Unit features, which affected the
research and development departments and simultaneously, the production strategies in DoD
community to support the acquisition processes in multiple ways. This included the support
towards development of the weapon system for the military users, determination of achieving
any long-term logistic requirements for complex weapon systems along with the providence of
consistent measures in the same. Next, from the business point of view, to provide profitability
for the defense-weapon contractors and finally, the public accountability is maintained,
simultaneously, prevented the abuses (Schlossberg, 2012).
Despite initiatives, it was until that the secretary in defense, ensured a directive to
prioritize the commercial standards or features regarding the purchases until a specific
justification is mentioned regarding military specifications, which initiated major changes by
shifting the responsibilities towards industries rather than government citing with the available
warranties.
Another crucial initiate was the Single Process Initiate (SPI) major effectiveness
surrounding the shift towards commercial standardizations (Kim & Lu, 2013). Both the
acquisition configuration and SPI in accordance to the DoD prospects, the importance lies in the

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capability to minimize costing on the weapon system with the reduction i.n the military
specializations. Another important aspect was the exemption of rules and regulations that limit
the commercial practices causing opposition to common industry standardizations (Chinworth,
2000). These practices ensured higher level of integration between the civil and the military
industrial units in US helping in the research and development involved with the DoD
community.
CONCLUSION:
Reductions regarding the system purchases witnessed a persistent graph throughout
several years (Chinworth, 2000). Specific in industrial interests have been influenced by SPI
propositions, management strategies for the improvements and developments that prove
beneficial for the industries involving the efforts from the contractors. DoD have been impacted
with limitations due to preset assumptions regarding the emergence of a more competitive
circumstance, for which the DoD community in not ready. On analysis, one suggestive measure
though, could be to sustain energy levels in its acquisition reformations.

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REFERENCES:
Chinworth, M. W. (2000). Acquisition Reform in the United States: Assessing Change. Defense
Analysis, 16(2), 165-183.
Grimmett, R. F., & Lange, R. S. (2012, September). Intelligence Authorization Legislation:
Status and Challenges. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE.
Kim, E. H., & Lu, Y. (2013). Corporate governance reforms around the world and cross-border
acquisitions. Journal of Corporate Finance, 22, 236-253.
Schlossberg, G. (2012). How Congress Cleared the Bases: A Legislative History of
BRAC. Journal of Defense Communities, 1, 1-12.