Instructions, laws, and Regulations
The DoD Instruction Series that governs acquisition,
What is the 5000 series.
This is considered the highest level and highest fidelity of cost estimate.
What is an Independent Cost Estimate
Materiel Solution Analysis, Engineering & Manufacturing Development, Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction, Production & Deployment, Sustainment, Disposal describe what in the Defense Acquisition system?
What is a phase.
This position is created by Contracting officers as a delegate for all service contracts, including construction, unless the contracting officer retains and executes contract oversight responsibilities when the conditions of subpart 201.602-2 of the DFARS Procedures, Guidance, and Information (Reference (g)) exist.
DoD 5000.85 covers this acquisition pathway
What is Major Capability Acquisition
Which acqusition phase happens before happend after engineering & manufacturing development?
What is Production & Development.
In this contract type, the contractor bears all cost overruns; profit is fixed.
What is Firm Fixed Price.
This authorizes appropriations for fiscal year for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Depart ment of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes.
What is the National Defense Authorization Act
In this family of contracts, the government reimburses the contractor for allowable, allocable, and reasonable costs plus a fee. The government assumes most cost risk, while the contractor has less financial exposure but more administrative oversight.
What is Cost-Reimbursable.
The 1982 federal law designed to control cost overruns in U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Major Defense Acquisition Programs.
What is the Nunn-McCurdy Act.
The adaptive acquisition framework defined this number of different pathways
What is 6 - Urgent Capability Acquisition, MTA, MCA, Sofware, Defense Business Systems, and Acquisition of Services