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Chapter 3 provides concise explanations of how the Department of Defense acquires equipment, the internal Pentagon budget cycle, congressional budget activity, and the critical personal and professional relationships that facilitate the budget’s movement through each phase. Although this book is mostly concerned with the budget’s path through Congress, understanding basic acquisition principles and the process by which the budget is crafted inside the Pentagon provides useful and necessary insight.
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U.S. Department of Defense (2007).
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Decker and Wagner (2011), p. xix.
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National Security Strategy, May 2010, 12.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office (2010), p. 5.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Defense Acquisitions: Assessment of Selected Weapons Programs,” March 2012, 18.
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Cong. Rec., 107th Cong., 2nd sess., 2002, 148, no. 82: S5730.
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Cong. Rec., 107th Cong., 2nd sess., 2002, 148, no. 82: S5730.
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U.S. Department of Defense, Prepared Statement of the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, on the Crusader Recommendation before the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Donald Rumsfeld, May 19, 2002, http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2002/May/Rumsfeld.pdf (October 15, 2010).
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Oppel and Shanker (2010).
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Cong. Rec., 107th Cong., 2nd sess., 2002, 148, no. 82: S5744.
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Cong. Rec., 107th Cong., 2nd sess., 2002, 148, no. 82: S5731.
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Fact Sheet: The debate over the Crusader (2002).
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Cong. Rec., 107th Cong., 2nd sess., 2002, 148, no. 82: S5730.
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House Committee on Appropriations, Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2003, and for Other Purposes, Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 5010, 107th Cong., 2nd sess., H.R. 107–732.
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House Committee on Appropriations, Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2003, and for Other Purposes, Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 5010, 107th Cong., 2nd sess., H.R. 107–732.
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U.S. Department of Defense, Introduction to Defense Acquisition Management, 9th ed. (Fort Belvoir: Defense Acquisition University Press, 2009): 2.
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Schwartz (2010), p. 23.
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Converse (2012), pp. 22–24.
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Eisenhower (2012).
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Defense Acquisition History Project (2011).
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Ferrara (1996), pp. 113–115.
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Axe (2012).
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U.S. Government Accountability Office (2005), p. 9.
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Harris Corporation Receives $17.6 Million Order from U.S. Army for Falcon III AN/PRC-152 (C) (2010).
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U.S. Government Accountability Office (2009c), pp. 3–4.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office (2009c), p. 6.
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Feickert (2011), p. 3.
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Feickert (2011), p. 1.
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Miller (2010), p. 19.
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Krepinevich and Dakota (2007), p. 60.
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National Security Council Document 162/2, “A Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary on Basic National Security Policy,” October 30, 1953, 19.
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Schwartz (1940), p. 68.
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National Security Strategy, May 2010, 14.
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U.S. Department of Defense, The National Military Strategy of the United States of America, (2004), 14.
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For instance, in 2010, two separate documents—the Guidance for the Development of the Force and the Joint Programming Guidance—were combined into the Defense Planning and Programming Guidance, though the focus remained unchanged. See U.S. Department of Defense, “Procedures and Schedule for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012–2016 Integrated Program/Budget Review,” April 9, 2010, https://dap.dau.mil/policy/Documents/Policy/FY12-FY16_Program_Budget_Schedule.pdf (October 18, 2010).
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Data taken from the Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary for Defense (Comptroller), National Defense Budget Estimates for FY2012, March 2011, 60.
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Department of the Army (2010a), p. 212.
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U.S. Senate, Committee on Armed Services, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, Report to Accompany S. 1390, 111th Cong., 1st sess., S.R. 111-35.
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Fenno (1973), 2.
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U.S. Department of Defense (2007).
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For a significant collection of defense industry information and discussion of the difficulties of soliciting information from defense contractors, see Adams (1981).
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Moss (2010).
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Demarest, H.B. (2017). An Acquisition and Budgeting Primer. In: US Defense Budget Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52301-9_3
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