Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities (2000)

Chapter: Acronyms

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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2000. Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10012.

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Acronyms

ANG Air National Guard

ANGRC/CEC Air National Guard Readiness Center/Civil Engineering Center

APS Advanced Photon Source (Project)

ASRM Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (Project)

CM construction manager

DOE U.S. Department of Energy

FAIR Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation

FBO Foreign Buildings Operations (Office of)

FY fiscal year

GAO General Accounting Office

GOCO government-owned contractor-operated

GPRA Government Performance and Results Act

IBB International Broadcasting Bureau

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAVFAC Naval Facilities Engineering Command

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NRC National Research Council

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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2000. Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10012.

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OFPP Office of Federal Procurement Policy

OMB Office of Management and Budget

PM program manager

SSC Superconducting Super Collider (Project)

USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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In this study outsourcing is defined as the organizational practice of contracting for services from an external entity while retaining control over assets and oversight of the services being outsourced. In the 1980s, a number of factors led to a renewed interest in outsourcing. For private sector organizations, outsourcing was identified as a strategic component of business process reengineering—an effort to streamline an organization and increase its profitability. In the public sector, growing concern about the federal budget deficit, the continuing long-term fiscal crisis of some large cities, and other factors accelerated the use of privatization measures (including outsourcing for services) as a means of increasing the efficiency of government.

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