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Analysis Of Cost Growth In Us Air Force Base Support Function Contracts, James S. Romasz
Analysis Of Cost Growth In Us Air Force Base Support Function Contracts, James S. Romasz
Theses and Dissertations
The United States Air Force (USAF) has outsourced a significant portion of their activities defined as commercial activities and plans to aggressively outsource more in the future. The USAF outsources its commercial activities in the form of multi-year contracts to the private sector. Cost growth (either negative or positive) has been experienced by most of these contracts. This research effort performed a review of current literature and used statistical analysis to clarify the issue: what are the causes, and extent of cost growth in USAF base-support-function contracts?. From the literature, it can be concluded that changes to the statement of …