Best Practices Commercial Quality Assurance Practices Offer Improvements for Dod

By Schinasi, Katherine V.

Book Id: WPLBN0000222106
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.3 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Best Practices Commercial Quality Assurance Practices Offer Improvements for Dod
Author:	Schinasi, Katherine V.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) spends about $1.5 billion extra per year on military-unique quality assurance requirements for major acquisitions and billions more on cost and schedule overruns to correct problems caused partly by poor quality practices. To help improve DOD?s quality assurance program, we reviewed world-class commercial organizations to determine what practices they had adopted to more efficiently produce quality products. Specifically, this report describes (1) the historical problems DOD has had in improving quality assurance practices, (2) some private sector practices that could benefit DOD, and (3) a current plan for improving quality assurance activities.