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The Impact of Acquisition Reform on Department of Defense Specifications and Standards for Materials and Processes Report of the Workshop on Technical Strategies for Adoption of Commercial Materials and Processing Standards in Defense Procurement (2002) / Chapter Skim
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8 Workshop Summary
Pages 35-36

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... Although contractors are scrambling to recover, the recent wholesale cancellation of military specifications has strained configuration control ant! increased product performance risk throughout the military supply chain.
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... must be retained to allow rapid dissemination of reliable data. Second, just as technical expertise and discipline are eroding at DoD, strong expertise for materials and processes is required to conclude the transition to NGSs and performance-based specifications and leverage the benefits into real cost savings.
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