Outsourcing the Air Force mission
Subtitle: a strategy for success
By: William G. Palmby
Contributors: Air University (U.S.). College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education
Series: Walker paper -- 4; Walker paper (Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.) -- no. 4.
Publisher: Air University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781585661503
Subjects: Procurement; Personnel management; Contracting out; Armed Forces; United States. Air Force; United States
Description: "Colonel Palmby's study not only serves as a primer for readers not intimately familiar with either outsourcing or the acquisition/manpower career fields, but also provides Air Force leadership and decision makers recommendations designed to help them resolve or prevent the numerous pitfalls that accompany the outsourcing process. Toward those ends, it provides background on the terminology, processes, and regulatory guidance used in outsourcing. It also reviews various forces that drive the Air Force toward outsourcing as a resource option and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages that may reside in any outsourcing situation. The paper also examines numerous issues facing the Air Force and Department of Defense in general as the outsourcing of missions continues to increase. Additionally, the paper offers some critical recommendations designed to help begin the considerable effort of evolving the Air Force's culture and structure to allow full integration of outsourcing as a key and equal component of its Total Force team."--Abstract from AU Press web site.
Notes: At head of title: Air Force Fellows ; College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education ; Air University."

"April 2006."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-62).

Also available via the Internet.