United States Defence Procurement - Acquisition Program Baseline, Concept Development and Experimentation, Defense Acquisition Guide, Defense Acquisiti (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Acquisition Program Baseline, Concept Development and Experimentation, Defense Acquisition Guide, Defense Acquisition University, Department of Defense Whistleblower Program, Electronic Defense Laboratories, Joint Capabilities Integration Development System, Joint Planning Document, Joint Requirements Oversight Council, National Military Strategy (United States), Nunn-McCurdy Amendment, Office of Defense Mobilization, Prompt Global Strike, Randy T. Fowler, RiskAoA, The Standard Procurement System, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, United States Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology. Excerpt: The Department of Defense Whistleblower Program enables, in part, the federal mission of protecting whistleblowers by committing the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Defense to whistleblower protection and the training of DoD personnel on their whistleblower rights. It also administers the Defense Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Program (DICWP), as a sub-mission. The Inspector General's Defense Criminal Investigative Service also conducts criminal investigations which rely, in part, on Qui Tam relators. Whistleblowers disclose acts of illegality, fraud, waste and abuse. This can prevent government failure in the future. But whistleblowers can then be targeted for retailiation, "smeared as traitors, turncoats and liars by their superiors and suffer harassmenet, punishment or firing." The Department of Defense Whistleblower Program is increasingly focused on disclosures which will aid in resolving the United States' national security threat due to fiscal failure: In 2009, the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense targeted the Whistleblower Protection Program as a top priority. For more than 20 years, the DoD...