Black Berets And The Berry Amendment
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Black Berets And The Berry Amendment
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Author : William E. Zeller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Black Berets And The Berry Amendment written by William E. Zeller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Buy national policy categories.
This paper explores the Berry Amendment and how this important and sometime parochial legislation has affected Department of Defense strategic procurements in recent years. It focuses on a single incident, the procurement of the Army's Black Berets, a strategic decision on the part of the Army Chief of Staff and the Army's symbol of transformation. But more importantly, it shows how this one seminal event caused doubt about the Defense Logistic Agency's ability to deliver goods in time of war. It also demonstrates how politics and parochialism can affect an otherwise benign and insignificant procurement of one piece of military headgear and move it to the center of public and political opinion, illustrating the complexity of logistics at the strategic level.
Contract Management Update On Dod S Purchase Of Black Berets
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language : en
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Release Date : 2001
Contract Management Update On Dod S Purchase Of Black Berets written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
On May 2, 2001, we testified on Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) efforts to purchase black berets for Army forces. These purchases responded to the Army's announcement, in October 2000, that Army personnel would begin wearing berets 8 months later. In an effort to respond to the Army's requirement in the limited% time provided, DLA contracted for production of nearly 5 million berets at a cost of about $30 million. In the process, DLA shortcut normal contracting procedures and waived restrictions, contained in the so-called "Berry Amendment," that limit Department of Defense (DOD) purchases of certain items, including clothing, to those produced in the United States or its possessions. Despite these efforts, DLA was unable to meet the Army's deadline, and it terminated three contracts because the contractors did not meet delivery requirements. In response to your request, we followed up on our earlier work in order to assess the current status of the black beret procurement as well as the status of DOD's efforts to ensure proper waivers of the Berry Amendment. To date, DOD has received about 2.1 million berets-less than 1 million of which were distributed to Army personnel. DOD still expects another 1.6 million berets to be delivered by September 2002. DOD has also taken steps to ensure that proposed waivers of the Berry Amendment are considered at an appropriate management level. DOD no longer allows the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics) or the service secretaries to delegate their authority to approve Berry Amendment waivers. Requests for waivers must also be supported by analyses of why alternatives that would not require a waiver were unacceptable. Since these requirements were set, the Under Secretary has approved six waivers, all of which originated at the Defense Logistics Agency. Because DOD is taking actions to ensure proper waivers of the Berry Amendment, we are not making recommendations.
Reflexions Historiques Polititiques Et Critiques Sur Le Journal Intitul La Clef Du Cabinet Des Princes De L An 1713
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Author : Michael Richey (digter, professor)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1713
Reflexions Historiques Polititiques Et Critiques Sur Le Journal Intitul La Clef Du Cabinet Des Princes De L An 1713 written by Michael Richey (digter, professor) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1713 with categories.
The Berry Amendment
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language : en
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Release Date : 2001
The Berry Amendment written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Buy national policy categories.
The Berry Amendment requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to give preference in procurement to domestically produced, manufactured, or home grown products, notably food, clothing, fabrics, and specialty metals. In order to protect the U.S. industrial base during periods of adversity and war, Congress passed domestic source restrictions as part of the 1941 Fifth Supplemental DOD Appropriations Act; these provisions later became the Berry Amendment. Since then numerous other items have been proposed and/or added. Congress modified the Berry Amendment in Section 832 of S. 1438, the FY2002 DOD Authorization Act, P.L. 107-107. The Berry Amendment is now part of the United States Code (10 U.S.C. ʹ 2533a. The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) was amended to include exceptions for the acquisition of food, speciality metals, and hand or measuring tools when needed to support contingency operations or when the use of other than competitive procedures is based on an unusual and compelling urgency; it was revised in January 2005 to add new items, components, and materials covered under the Berry Amendment. In the spring of 2001, Congress revisited the Berry Amendment largely in response to a controversy involving the Army2s procurement of black berets. DOD had granted the Defense Logistics Agency authority to waive the Berry Amendment in order to purchase berets from foreign sources. However, it was reported that DOD had known for 25 years that no U.S. firm produced a solely domestic beret; this suggested that other violations of the Berry Amendment may have been overlooked or under-reported. This procurement event raised important questions: (1) If the U.S. does not produce a solely domestic item, should DOD procurement be restricted from access to foreign sources? (2) Do procurement policies under the Berry Amendment adequately provide the best value to DOD and the federal government? (3) To what extent do U.S. national security interests justify waivers of the Berry Amendment? Some policymakers believe that policies like the Berry Amendment contradict free trade policies, and that the presence and degree of such competition is the most effective tool for promoting efficiencies and improving quality. On the other hand, others believe that key U.S. sectors need the protections afforded by the Berry Amendment. These two views have been the subject of ongoing debate in Congress. In the debate over the passage of the FY2004 defense authorization bill, Representative Duncan Hunter, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, sought to strengthen and expand both the Berry Amendment and the Buy American provisions. In the 108th Congress, both the proposed FY2005 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4200), and P.L. 108-287, the FY2005 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, (H.R. 4613), contain provisions that may affect domestic source provisions in the Berry Amendment and the Buy American Act. This report examines the original intent and purpose of the Berry Amendment, legislative proposals to amend both laws and regulations governing the application of domestic source restrictions, as well as options for Congress. The report will be updated as events warrant.
Hearing On Black Beret Procurement
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Hearing On Black Beret Procurement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Berry Amendment
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Author : Valerie Bailey Grasso
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2011-08
Berry Amendment written by Valerie Bailey Grasso and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08 with Business & Economics categories.
In order to protect the U.S. industrial base during periods of adversity and war, Congress passed domestic source restrictions as part of the 1941 DoD Appropriations Act. These provisions later became known as the Berry Amendment (BA). The current BA Requirement to Buy Certain Articles from American Sources contains a number of domestic source restrictions that prohibit DoD from acquiring food, clothing, fabrics (including ballistic fibers), stainless steel, and hand or measuring tools that are not grown or produced in the U.S. It also excludes specialty metals. This report examines the original intent and purpose of the BA and legislative proposals to amend the application of domestic source restrictions. This is a print on demand report.
Hearing On Black Beret Procurement
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Hearing On Black Beret Procurement written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
Summary Of Activities
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Summary Of Activities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Small business categories.
Nominations Before The Senate Armed Services Committee First Session 107th Congress
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Nominations Before The Senate Armed Services Committee First Session 107th Congress written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Vitamania
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Author : Catherine Price
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Vitamania written by Catherine Price and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Health & Fitness categories.
"Measured, funny, and fascinating... If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book." Scientific American ("Food Matters") Most of us know nothing about vitamins. What’s more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we’ve become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that vitamins are an absolute good—and the more of them, the better—vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. In Vitamania, award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about vitamins, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health. When vitamins were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. Yet it wasn’t long before vitamins spread from labs of scientists into the realm of food marketers and began to take on a life of their own. By the end of the Second World War, vitamins were available in forms never before seen in nature—vitamin gum, vitamin doughnuts, even vitamin beer—and their success showed food manufacturers that adding synthetic vitamins to otherwise nutritionally empty products could convince consumers that they were healthy. The era of “vitamania,” as one 1940s journalist called it, had begun. Though we’ve gained much from our embrace of vitamins, what we’ve lost is a crucial sense of perspective. Vitamins may be essential to our lives, but they are not the only important substances in food. By buying into a century of hype and advertising, we have accepted the false idea that particular dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to health—whether they be antioxidants or omega-3s or, yes, vitamins. And it’s our vitamin-inspired desire for effortless shortcuts that created today’s dietary supplement industry, a veritable Wild West of overpromising “miracle” substances that can be legally sold without any proof that they are effective or safe. For the countless individuals seeking to maximize their health and who consider vitamins to be the keys to well-being, Price’s Vitamania will be a game-changing look into the roots of America’s ongoing nutritional confusion. Her travels to vitamin manufacturers and food laboratories and military testing kitchens—along with her deep dive into the history of nutritional science— provide a witty and dynamic narrative arc that binds Vitamania together. The result is a page-turning exploration of the history, science, hype, and future of nutrition. And her ultimate message is both inspiring and straightforward: given all that we don’t know about vitamins and nutrition, the best way to decide what to eat is to stop obsessing and simply embrace this uncertainty head-on. By exposing our extraordinary psychological relationship with vitamins and challenging us to question our beliefs, Vitamania won’t just change the way we think about vitamins. It will change the way we think about food. Booklist, *STARRED* "A hidden, many-faceted, and urgent story." Wall Street Journal "The baselessness of our hopes for various elixirs, alongside our baseless fear of science’s true achievements, opens up a rich vein of hypocrisy that Ms. Price mines with engaging relish."