Military acquisition has long emphasized the portion of the life cycle between the Request for Proposal (RFP) and Initial Operational Capability (IOC). In response to changing political and economic realities during the 1980s, though, much of the Services’ own performance of many technical acquisition tasks devolved to management of contractor efforts.
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