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  • National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006  (P. L. 109-163)

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  • National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004  (P. L. 108-136)

  • Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003  (P. L. 107-314)

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Reading

• Analysis
  • The Sad, Yet Illustrative, Case Of PMO Partnership Joint Venture
  • In Search of Reasonable Compensation: Patent Infringement by Defense Contractors with the Authorization and Consent of the U.S. Government.
  • Emerging Policy and Practice Issues (2009).
  • Federal Contracting and Acquisition: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
  • Less is More: Encouraging Greater Competition in Computer Software Procurement by Simplifying the DFARS Licensing Scheme.
  • Tempering 'Buy American' in the Recovery Act - Steering Clear of a Trade War.
  • Public Procurement: Focus on People, Value for Money and Systemic Integrity, Not Protectionism.
  • The Challenge of Contracting for Large Complex Projects: A Case Study of the Coast Guard’s Deepwater Program.
  • Why Contractor Fatalities Matter.
  • Too Dependent on Contractors? Minimum Standards for Responsible Governance.
  • They're Here To Help
  • Public Procurement Systems: Unpacking Stakeholder Aspirations and Expectations
  • Political Connections and the Allocation of Procurement Contracts
  • A Legal Analysis of the Statutory and Contractual Allocation of Data Rights in Federal Contracts Subject to 10 U.S.C. 2320
  • Emerging Policy and Practice Issues
  • Renewed Focus on Program Performance Management Or The Government-Imposed Shotgun Marriage Between the Accountant and Engineer
  • Emerging Policy and Practice Issues (2006)
  • Recommended Books for Government Contracting Professionals
  • Poor Leadership, Not Excessive Oversight, Is What Troubles Contracting
  • Procurement Reform in the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 — A Creature of Compromise, Pointing the Way to Future Debates
  • Government Purpose Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software in DOD Acquisition.
  • Improving Federal Procurement: The Benefits of Vendor-Neutral Contract Specifications.
  • Post-Katrina Reconstruction Liability: Exposing the Inferior Risk-Bearer.
  • A Proposal for a New Approach to Performance-Based Services Acquisition.
  • A Modest Proposal to Enhance Civil/Military Integration: Rethinking the Renegotiation Regime as a Regulatory Mechanism to Decriminalize Cost, Pricing, and Profit Policy
  • Constructing a Bid Protest Process: Choices Every Procurement Challenge System Must Make
  • Emerging Policy and Practice Issues (2005)
  • In Memoriam, John Cibinic, Jr.
  • Katrina's Continuing Impact on Procurement - Emergency Procurement Powers in H.R. 3766.
  • Understanding the Current Wave of Procurement Reform:  Devolution of the Contracting Function.
  • Commentary on the Acquisition Workforce
  • Implementing Alternative Sourcing Strategies: Four Case Studies
  • e-Sourcing in Procurement: Theory and Behavior in Reverse Auctions with Non-Competitive Contracts.
  • Risky Business: Managing Interagency Acquisition.
  • Organizational Conflicts of Interest: A Growing Integrity Challenge
  • Emerging Policy and Practice Issues
  • Government Garage Sales: Online Auctions as Tools for Asset Management.
  • Competitive Sourcing: What Happens to Federal Employees?
  • The Centrality of Military Procurement: Explaining the Exceptionalist Character of United States Federal Public Procurement Law.
  • Contractor Atrocities at Abu Ghraib: Compromised Accountability in a Streamlined, Outsourced Government,
  • Making Federal Information Technology Accessible: A Case Study in Social Policy and Procurement.
  • A Survey of Florida's Recent District Court of Appeal and Administrative Decisions Involving Bid Protests: Challenging the Government's Conduct Regarding a Public Procurement
  • The Level of Confidence Assessment Rating Technique: A Tool for Source Selection
  • Consolidation of Boards of Contract Appeals: An Old Idea Whose Time Has Come?
  • Suspension and Debarment: Emerging Issues in Law and Policy
  • A Modest Proposal
  • Competitive Sourcing Policy: More Sail Than Rudder?
  • Governance by Contract: Constitutional Visions; Time for Reflection and Choice
  • The Time-and-Materials Contract: The Time Has Come For A Long, Hard Look
  • The Fixed-Price Incentive Firm Target Contract:  Not As Firm As the Name Suggests
  • Competitive Negotiation WLMP Style
  • Competitive Processes in Government Contracting:  The FAR Part 15 Process Model and Process Inefficiency
  • The Threat of Former Employees
  • The Five-Year Limit on Government Contracts:  Reality or Myth? 
  • Making Performance-Based Contracting Perform:  What Federal Departments and Agencies Can Learn From State and Local Governments
  • IT Outsourcing:  A Primer for Public Managers
  • The Procurement Partnership Model:  Moving to a Team-Based Approach
  • The Future:  Scrutinizing the Empirical Case for the Court of Federal Claims
  • Model Behaviour?  Anecdotal Evidence of Tension between Evolving Commercial Public Procurement Practices and Trade Policy.
  • The True Story of the Wright Brothers' Contract  (It’s not what you think.)
  • Remaking Federal Procurement
  • Case Study of Complex Business Management for Competitive Sourcing  (pdf file)
  • A Vision of the Government as a World-Class Buyer:  Major Procurement Issues for the Coming Decade
  • Contracting for the 21st Century:  A Partnership Model.
  • It’s Time to Use the Legislative History of the Federal Acquisition Regulation
  • Desiderata: Objectives for a System of Government Contract Law
  • The Award Term Incentive:  A Status Report
  • Commercial Purchasing:  The Chasm Between the United States Government's Evolving Policy and Practice
  • Fear of Oversight:  The Fundamental Failure of Businesslike Government.
  • Research and Development Dollars are Understated by Billions in The Federal Procurement Data System
  • The Adarand Chronicle:  From Bakke to Adarand VII
  • Award Term:  The Newest Incentive
  • Past Performance Revisited
  • FAR Councils vs. The United States Courts--Round 3
  • Do Reverse Auctions Violate FAR 15.307(b)?
  • Inventory Control Point Leads the Way
  • An Incentive for Commercial Items Contracts
  • Navy Sets Sail for the New World
  • From Suspended Animation to Debarment
  • Legislating in Opposite Directions
  • Priced-Based Acquisition
  • Conflicts of Interest and Participation on A-76 Evaluation Panels
  • Many Faces to Industry
  • When Large Is Small--Or Maybe Not
     
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  • Unleashing Change: A Study of Organizational Renewal in Government
  • Business:  The Ultimate Resource.
  • Intellectual Property: Three Primers for Acquisition Practitioners.
  • Project Management: Two Books for Beginners.
     
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