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Recognizing Today’s Contracting Business Systems And Compliance

Published on December 23rd, 2011 by Dgriffith.

Recognizing Today’s Contracting Business Systems And Compliance Due to ‘significant deficiencies’ discovered in a DCMA earned value management system audit, NAVSEA announced last month that it is penalizing shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls by withholding 5% of its progress payments on the $697 million ship building contract for the Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Unless Ingalls is able [...]

ProPricer – Facilitating the Need for Cost and Price Analysis On Spare Parts

Published on December 23rd, 2011 by Dgriffith.

Defense policy makers create new directives for government agencies to perform cost or price analysis on proposed spare parts before exercising an option. In response to a recent DoD IG review, Director of Defense Pricing Shay Assad issued a memorandum to Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition executives and the directors of defense agencies and field [...]

ProPricer called “Best In Class” by Senior DoD Price Analyst

Published on December 22nd, 2011 by Dgriffith.

ProPricer called “Best In Class” by Senior DoD Price Analyst Executive Business Services is pleased to announce that the company’s ProPricer Government Edition Source Selection and Cost Analysis product has been named “Best in Class” by a Senior DOD Price Analyst. For over 25 years, ProPricer has been making a significant process improvement impact with [...]

Should Cost Management: Why? How?

Published on September 19th, 2011 by ylambert.

Over the past recent years, the DoD has been forced to cancel one unaffordable program after another to live within budget constraints. When taken as a whole, it is obvious that continuing “business as usual” in defense systems acquisition is not sustainable. As compared to the commercial world, where prices decline over time even as [...]

ProPricer Responds to Today’s Business Systems Requirements

Published on August 23rd, 2011 by Dgriffith.

Contractors Responding to Today’s Business Systems Requirements Recently Congress passed new legislation requiring the Secretary of Defense to develop a program that ensures contractor business systems provide reliable information in response to the oversight and management of Defense programs. Included are Accounting, Estimating, Earned Value Management, Material, and Property Management systems. As a result, Contractors [...]

Accelerated Implementation to Support a Major System Acquisition Proposal

Published on August 23rd, 2011 by Dgriffith.

One of our defense industry clients was a small company that had been purchased by one of the major aerospace and defense prime contractors. The new subsidiary retained the autonomy to choose its own business systems. The parent company is not a ProPricer licensee, relying instead on an in-house developed application. The company needed to [...]

Pentagon Officials Work With OMB on Budget Guidance

Published on August 22nd, 2011 by Dgriffith.

By Lisa Daniel and Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2011 – Defense Department officials are working with the Office of Management and Budget on guidance issued yesterday that all agencies’ fiscal 2013 budget requests be at least 5 percent less than current appropriations. Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters today [...]

OMB directs agencies to cut 2013 budgets

Published on August 22nd, 2011 by Dgriffith.

By Kellie Lunney klunney@govexec.com August 18, 2011: The Obama administration is directing federal agencies to submit fiscal 2013 budget requests that are at least 10 percent below their current appropriation level.