The perfect storm electronic resource the Goldwater-Nichols Act and its effect on navy acquisition Charles Nemfakos ... [et al.]

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In 1986, beginning with the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act, the U.S. military establishment underwent the most sweeping set of defense reforms to be enacted in almost 40 years. Related reforms followed shortly thereafter and included those contained in the National Defense Authorization Act of 1987, which reflected many of the recommendations of the Packard Commission. In the more than two decades since that time of change, the military establishment has taken numerous steps to implement the legislation's reforms and other reforms contained in commission recommendations and further legislation. Although reform was necessary, some within the military services have grown increasingly concerned about some of the effects, perceiving a growing divide between a military-run requirements process and a civilian-run acquisition process, a divide they regard as inimical to the efficient and effective support of military forces. This paper focuses on the implementation of the Goldwater-Nichols Act in the Department of the Navy and on related acquisition reforms, but it also assesses the influence of several other factors that, in large part, made passage of the Goldwater-Nichols legislation possible, colored its implementation, and complicated the adoption of common-sense changes during the implementation process.