Browsing by Author "Gansler, Jacques"

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    Competitive Sourcing: What Happens to Federal Employees
    (IBM Center for the Business of Government, 2004-10) Gansler, Jacques; Lucyshyn, William
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    Digitally Integrating the Government Supply Chain: E-Procurement, E-Finance, and E-Logistics
    (IBM Endowment for the Business of Government, 2003-02) Gansler, Jacques; Lucyshyn, William; Ross, Kimberly
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    Evaluation of Performance Based Logistics
    (Naval Postgraduate School, 2006-08) Gansler, Jacques; Lucyshyn, William
    The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America (NDS) establishes a set of overarching defense objectives that guide DoD’s security actions and provides direction for the National Military Strategy (NMS). It was developed based on the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) process and is focused on preparing DoD to meet 21st century challenges. One of the four implementation guidelines, which it details, is “Continuous Transformation.” The purpose of continuous transformation “is to extend key advantages and reduce vulnerabilities.” No area needs transformation more than DoD logistics. In fact, the former Army Chief of Staff, General Eric K. Shinseki has said, “You cannot have an Army transformation without a logistics transformation.” This precept can be unarguably broadened—you cannot transform the Department of Defense without transforming logistics. And, while transforming many military disciplines there are often little proven precedents, in the logistics world, many of the necessary tools and concepts have been proven in the commercial world.
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    Moving Toward Market-Based Government: The Changing Role of Government as the Provider
    (IBM Endowment for the Business of Government, 2003-06) Gansler, Jacques
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    A Strategy for Defense Acquisition Research
    (Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, Center of Public Policy, University of Maryland, 2005-08) Gansler, Jacques; Lucyshyn, William
    Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is again experiencing a major shift in the geopolitical landscape. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of theCold War have profoundly changed the nation’s security environment. However, as theSeptember 11th attacks demonstrated, new deadly challenges have emerged from terrorist networks and rogue states. Although none of these threats equal the destructivecapabilities of the Soviet Union, their determination to obtain, and the greater likelihood that they will use, weapons of mass destruction, creates a more complex and dangerous security environment. The Department of Defense (DoD) has also entered a transformative period—leveraging emerging technologies to develop a net-centric warfare capability—whileactively conducting military operations, throughout the spectrum of conflict, in support of the global war on terror. As a result, DoD is struggling to meet these competingrequirements and reconcile the spending between traditional and new programs.Therefore, creating a more efficient acquisition system is a top priority. High-qualityresearch in the area of acquisitions is necessary to catalyze positive and lasting changes to improve performance, reduce acquisition cycle times, and reduce the costs of DoD acquisitions, even as the Department confronts rapidly changing external and internalenvironments. This report highlights some the forces that are acting to change theenvironment including: budget constraints, a changing threat environment, technological innovations, force transformation, human capital management, a shrinking industrialbase, and ethics; and then develops a strategy for acquisition research.