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Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Air Force Institute of Technology

Theses and Dissertations

2015

Government purchasing

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Army Information Technology Procurement: A Business Process Analysis, Alexander M. Vukcevic Mar 2015

Army Information Technology Procurement: A Business Process Analysis, Alexander M. Vukcevic

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents a business process analysis of the Army's ICT procurement system. The research identified several inefficiencies and proposes several potential solutions. the contributions of this research include a unified taxonomy, a method to prioritize requests, and system architecture products for development of an automated and sustainable collaboration interface for the CIO/G6 to streamline their IT acquisition process. Development of a centralized system would reduce waste in the request process from submission to formal accounting, hasten the movement of requests between stakeholders, maintain a digital signature authorization for each approval authority, provide a reporting database to recognize reprogramming thresholds, …