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Acquisition Policy

Acquisition Policy in AIA News

• AIA eUpdate: Acquisition Reform: The Never-Ending Story
• Press Release: Core Elements of Acquisition System Essential to Cost Control
• Press Release: Sylvester to Lead AIA Procurement & Finance Department
• Statement: Statement by AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey on the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act
• Press Release: AIA Report Urges Positive Defense Acquisition Reform

White Papers

• Ways to Reduce Costs Immediately
  
• DOD Efficiency Initiative
  
• Why FAR Part 12 Authorities Must be Retained
  
• Research & Development Tax Credit
• U.S. Defense Acqusition: An Agenda for Positive Reform

Testimony

• April 22, 2010 - Kirsten Koepsel, Director, Legal Affairs and Tax, Aerospace Industries Association, testimony as prepared entitled "Safeguarding Unclassified Information" (PDF format)
• Sep. 17, 2009 - Richard Sylvester, Vice President of Acquisition Policy, Aerospace Industries Association, written statement to the Panel on Defense Acquisition Reform (PDF format)

Letters

• August 31, 2010 - CODSIA comments on FAR Case 2010-008 "Recovery Act Subcontract Reporting Procedures"
• August 16, 2010 - AIA comments on FAR Case 2008-007 "Additional Requirements for Market Research"
• August 9, 2010 - CODSIA comments on HSAR Case 2009-005 "Revision of Department of Homeland Secureity Acquisition Regulation; Limitation on Subcontracting in Emergency Acquisitions"
• July 23, 2010 - AIA comments on the proposed Department of the Navy Preferred Supplier Program
• July 21, 2010 - AIA comments on DFARS Case 2009-D015 "Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Major Defense Acquisition Programs"
• July 19, 2010 - AIA comments on DFARS Case 2010-D004 "Restrictions on the Use of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements"
• July 9, 2010 - AIA and NDIA comments on CAS-2007-02A "CAS Pension harmonization NPRM"
• July 6, 2010 - AIA comments on DFARS Case 2007-D003 "Presumption of Development at Private Expense"
• July 6, 2010 - AIA comments on DFARS Case 2008-D042 "Preservation of Tooling for Major Defense Acquisition Programs"
• July 6 ,2010 - AIA comments on DFARS Case 2008-D050 "Marking of Government-Furnished Property"
• July 1, 2010 - AIA comments on the draft Product Verification and Material Process Review Checklist
• June 29, 2010 - AIA comments on DFARS Case 2008-D049 "Reporting of Government Property Lost, Stolen, Damaged, or Destroyed"
• June 29, 2010 - CODSIA comments on DFARS Case 2006-D021 "Award-fee contracts"
• June 15, 2010 - AIA comments on FAR Case 2009-006 "Labor Relations Cost"
• June 4, 2010 - CODSIA comments on propoesed OMB policy letter "Work Reserved for Performance by Federal Government Employees"
• May 18, 2010  - CODSIA comments on DFARS Case 2008-D028 "Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Safeguarding Unclassified Information"
• Mar. 16, 2010 - AIA and NAM comments on DFARS Case 2009-D038 "Business Systems - Definition and Administration"
• Jan. 12, 2010 - CODSIA response to FAR Case 2008-025, "Personal Conflict of Interest Rule"
• Dec. 16, 2009 - CODSIA response to FAR Case 2008-034, "Use of Commercial Services Item Authority"
• Dec. 14, 2009 - AIA response to FAR Case 2008-008, "Award Fee Language Revision"
• Dec. 14, 2009 - CODSIA response to FAR Case 2008-031, "Limitations on Pass-Through Charges"
• Nov. 5, 2009 - CODSIA response to FAR Case 2008-027, "Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System"
  
• Nov. 2, 2009 - CODSIA response to FAR case 2008-016, "Termination and Defective Pricing Data Reports to PPIRS"
• Oct. 5, 2009 - CODSIA response to FAR Case 2008-011, "Government Property"
• Oct. 2, 2009 - AIA comments on DFARS class deviation 2009-O0010, "Continuation of Essential Contractor Services"
  
• Sep. 28, 2009 - AIA comments on DFARS case 2008-D034, "Management of Unpriced Change Orders"