U.S. Department of Defense Services Contract Spending and the Supporting Industrial Base, 2000-2011

Abstract

The first goal of this research is to analyze trends in DoD services contract actions between 1990-2011 for the DoD overall and for individual DoD components (Army, Navy, Air Force, and other); by area of defense service contract action; and by level of competition, type of contract, and type of funding mechanism. The second goal is analyze the composition of the industrial base supporting DoD service contracts by using a breakdown of the defense services industrial base into small, medium, and large companies and by identifying the top 20 defense services companies (by total dollars obligated) for the DoD overall and for each DoD component (Army, Navy, Air Force, and other). This annotated brief presents the preliminary findings of this research, and covers only the years of 2000-20111 for the DoD overall.