The Army must reduce dependence on contractors to maintain the operational readiness required to accomplish its’ mission. According to an industry study on privatized military operations the author pointed out that the overreliance on contractors potentially erodes unit core competencies as organic knowledge, skills and abilities are lost from disuse. The use of contractors in mission critical areas prevents the transfer of actual experience and self-reliance necessary for successful operations. Placing a comparable amount of military personnel who normally perform a function with the contractor will help sustain operational capacity, institutional expertise and support more effective contract oversight. The ability to assess contractor reliability against standardized metrics will significantly reduce the risk to deployed forces who are highly dependent on the contractors for mission accomplishment. …show more content…
By eliminating uncertainty and ambiguity between the contractor and the contracting officers, the government could get rid of the divergent interpretations that inflate the cost. Realizing it is to the contractor’s advantage to pass on all expenses it can to the buyer in order to maximize profits every opportunity to clarify criteria for cost, reduce disagreement, and set clear limits are necessary. The difficulty in writing a contract to get rid of all unexpected cost is evident but doing it will cut down on the confusion over the life of the agreement. Defining costs allowed and which are not along with potential penalties for delayed service delivery will yield a better
The United States Army has been a leader in military prowess on the world stage since its inception in 1775, and with such a record, it is reasonably assumed that there must be solid foundation within the organization working to maintain the high level of performance. The Noncommissioned Officer Corps is one institution within the Army that serves as a large portion of this foundation that makes it the fighting force that it has always been, and the noncommissioned officers have been an integral piece since the very inception of the Army. The Prussian General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, organizer of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps, encapsulated this idea when he coined the noncommissioned officer (NCO) as the backbone of the Army. (Arms, 1991) In an Army that is continuously adjusting to world around it while maintaining its status as the military leader to all other nations, the Noncommissioned Officer Corps has always provided the platform for continuity through a growing rank system based on its original core, an evolving training program to develop effective leaders, and a creed that moves us forward while remembering the rich history of the corps that came before us.
Abrashoff begins the book by informing the reader of how his story begins; when he is given command of the USS Benfold. The Benfold was the Navy’s most advanced guided missile destroyer the Navy had in 1997 and its command was to be one of the Navy’s top innovators. Unfortunately, Abrashoff points out some flaws with the Navy’s personnel management that I found to be shocking. First, was that “nearly 35 percent of the people who joined the military annually, wouldn’t complete their enlistment contracts.” (p.2) Such turnover can be understood by many business managers in the service industry, but unlike the quick and cheap training process for them, the cost for the military (taxpayers) is astounding. Abrashoff estimates that it cost roughly “$35,000 to recruit a trainee and tens of thousands more in additional training costs to get new personnel to the basic level of proficiency.” (p.2) Curbing this trend on his own ship and eventually helping to achieve a decrease overall in the mil...
This paper will not bore with the definition of a profession. The United States Army is about more than words, it is about action. The action of over 238 years of tradition and service. The Army is a profession. A profession requires its members to adhere to prolonged training and learn specialized skills. A member of a profession must wholly commit himself and his skills to a calling which is entrusted by the public. A profession provides its members with intrinsic value which motivates beyond financial gain. The Army is a higher calling which demands all of these qualities and more.
“The Army Profession”, describes the essential characteristics of the Army Profession. As trusted Army professionals, we affirm that the heart of the Army is the Army
Contracting private military companies and private security contractors are not without their issues. Management of these companies and contractors are a crucial issue for the government. One of the most significant challenges in d...
Armed with numerous studies, and intensive public hearings, Congress mandated far-reaching changes in DOD organization and responsibilities in the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. This landmark legislation significantly expanded the authority and responsibility of the chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Included in this expanded authority and responsibility was the requirement for the chairman to develop a doctrine for the joint employment of armed forces. As operations Urgent Fury, Just Cause, and Desert Storm have vividly demonstrated, the realities of armed conflict in today's world make the integration of individual service capabilities a matter of success or failure, life or death. Furthermore, the operation Desert One demonstrated the need for a strengthened Joint Warfare Doctrine and the consequent change in Joint Warfare Employment. It is plain to see the benefits of having the greatest navy integrated with the world's greatest army and air force. However, even in the wake of a relatively successful joint operation in the Middle East (Desert Storm), certain weaknesses are evident in the current joint employment tactics and/or capabilities. By analyzing past operations such as Urgent Fury and Desert Storm, we are able to see sufficient evidence that the Joint Warfare Concept can be disastrous in one instance and virtually flawless in another.
In Taft, California, with a perimeter of razor wire, armed prison guards, supervise hundreds of medium security level federal inmates. Welcome to one of America's newest and fastest growing trends in the area of corrections. This new phenomenon is termed, The Corporation of Modern Corrections. Faced with an increase in prison overcrowding and aging institutions, court orders demanding immediate reform coupled with a straining budget, mandatory minimum sentences, and the public's attitude toward "getting tough on crime", America's justice system is in need of an overhaul. Thus, government leaders are ready to consider different options to help reduce the strain, while still meeting is legal responsibility to provide services. The option to emerge to the forefront is Prison Privatization - " the transfer of asset's and of production of public goods and services from government to the private sector."1 in other words, private interest is being given the opportunity to help alleviate the strain of taking care of a growing population more economically and efficiently than the government.
Thorpe, C. P., & Bailey, J. C. L. (2006). Commercial contracts: A practical guide to deals
Private security is more focused on crime prevention, and matters that happen on private property. Private security generally has more relaxed entry requirements. Supreme court do not necessarily apply to private security. Private security is detrimental, because requirements for employment are minimal, and in many cases, training is nonexistent. There are few federal, state, or local laws that guide private police conduct. In my opinion, I believe the large private security presence in the United States is beneficial to law enforcement efforts in the United States, because they are nothing like the police but they carry equipments like the police. They get critical intelligence from the law enforcement. They out number the real police. Investigating
Robert Greenwald’s documentary film, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteer, highlights how the private military contractors (PMCs) make the profit out of the Iraq War, and visualizes how the motive of profit-oriented PMCs has a negative impact on U.S. image. The film shows interviews of former PMCs employees and their families, Iraqi civilians, U.S. military staff, and more. The question has raised that how the U.S. government solve such tragedy and at the same time to fulfill its needy of manpower in Iraq. Accountability is not the only significant opportunity cost of U.S. government deploying PMCs to Iraq, but also losing oligopoly leverage of traditional military in the labor market of the business of
Award-winning branding consultant Simon Mainwaring once said, “More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.” While several people think private military contracting is a low standard job, others disagree. Private military contracting is a job involving being handy in combat. Many people may ask how a private military contractor is different from a regular soldier. Several people choose private military contracting over the military because it is more convenient for individuals and provides a satisfying salary.
Furthermore, there is good price certainty at the award of the contract because of full set information. However, there are some disadvantages to the process. First, it is very consume time in the pre-contract process due to the strategy is sequential and construction cannot be started before the completion of design. Also, the contractor is not appointed at the design stage, so the contractor and supply chain have no input into the design or planning of the project. Moreover, there are divided responsibility of design and construction, so it is easy to cause disputes in the post-contract processes.
To be considered a professional, in the Army one must exemplify several essential characteristics and qualities. Some of these characteristics are expertise, trust, development, values, and service. These are just a few features that an individual needs; h...
It my hope that some of the experiences poses for the fast 11 years as an active duty will help me perform my job as a recruiter. Nonetheless, according to Leslie L. Rosen (2017), bad employees not only affect an employer by driving down sales, but they cost the company unwanted expenses due to negligence or simple lack of motivation. I supposed the same would be true when the Army recruit the Soldiers. The task of a Soldier does not only cost the Soldiers who are not highly motivated, lack resiliency and adaptability, but the Army in general.
..., 2013). As these contractors are risk-averse, they will drop out in the first phase leaving only the most efficient contractors to compete against each other. Furthermore the inclusion of a premium, offers less incentive for collusion as contractors are more inclined to deviate from a cartel to receive a higher payoff. Although theoretically feasible in a controlled environment, in real life there are laws and regulations that protect firms against collusive practices. In the case where the client may suspect collusion is a real possibility, AMSA offers the most effective collusion deterrence. However administratively it may be difficult to implement phase 1, where the price sequentially drops as the tender process takes several months with contractors rarely interacting with each other compared to an auction where the bidders are together and bid in one sitting.