The A-7 attack aircraft: contract history emphasizing the Navy business clearance process.
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Authors
Gates, Christopher Gleason.
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DeMayo, P.
Date of Issue
1973-09
Date
September 1973
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en_US
Abstract
Beginning with intense competition for the first A-7 , the
Navy by necessity entered sole source negotiations for later
procurements of the A-7. The operational need of these A-7's
drove the Navy to letter contracts while increasing sophistication
of the avionics and changing military requirements
complicated the definitization of these contracts.
To better understand these problems and the Navy business
clearance process, a history of the Navy Procurement Control
and Clearance Division is presented in Section II. Sections
I and III present A-7 contracts in case study format for the
A-7A, A-7B, A-7D, and A-7E. Section IV is a case study of
the A-7F VAST contract.
The procurement of a military aircraft is a complex
process. The Project Manager and the contracting officer
must constantly strive to make the technology advances and
requirement change's compatible with sound business practices.
The study of the A-7 contracts illustrates many of the inevitable
conflicts that arise in this process.
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Operations Research and Administrative Sciences
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.