Böcker av Gregory Sanders

This CSIS report explores the important choices that the Department of Defense has to make about the future mission and organization of the Defense Information Systems Agency¿the organization created in the Cold War to unify its top-level communications¿as it adapts to the challenges of a changing world.

This CSIS report examines trends in what the DoD is buying, how the DoD is buying it, and from whom the DoD is buying based on analysis of data from the Federal Procurement Data System.

In a time of austerity, the U.S. government's reliance on the private sector for a range of services has declined for two consecutive years. Even so, real services contract spending in 2012 remains more than 80 percent above the level in 2000. This report examines contract factors, like competition, funding mechanism, and vehicle, while also looking at industrial base factors like vendor market share by size and top contractors by total services revenue.