Juan E. Perot

Date of Award

3-21-2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

First Advisor

Edward D. White, PhD.

Abstract

Since June 1986 the Argentina Air Force maintains at WPAFB Ohio a procurement office to obtain defense articles under the Foreign Military Sales system. The aim of this thesis is to provide an historical review (1994-2012) of the procurement under FMS and bring some visibility about the procedures and get some managing indicators. The analysis considered three different aspects: the characteristics of the acquisition processes, the time in the procurement system and the relationships between independent variables and the acquisition time through a multivariate linear regression model. The results of the analyses are as follows: the USAF Services has the shortest procurement time, 78% of all acquisition processes initiated resulted in a 92% of fill rate; 68% of all acquisitions were considered Standard; and for both Standard and Non Standard the acquisition median delivery time was around a year. Also, neither the type of the defense article, type of procurements or the U.S. Service supplier influenced the pipeline time. Only the country priority showed a slight degree of linear association with time. The multivariate regression model had an R2 equal to 0.169, showing a weak linear association between variables.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-ENC-13-M-04

DTIC Accession Number

ADA579986

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