He's hired 3, 000 new technical staff and is schooling them in the finer points of procurement, cost estimation and reserve classification.
Military procurement has long been driven by cost and availability of additional software--two measures where Macintosh computers have typically come up short against Windows-based PCs.
These benefits include cost savings, such as from procurement and sourcing efficiencies available to the enlarged group, and substantial new business opportunities.
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It was he who coined the procurement mantra FIST (Fast, Inexpensive, Simple and Tiny) to "describe a particular pattern of decision making in procurement that aims to support rapid, low cost innovation".
And this probably understates likely cost savings because it is based on lower procurement costs alone.
Cost overruns as they affect continued allied support for procurement of the F-35 comprise another problem the firm must resolve.
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Already the cost of troop protection has started to cut into other procurement programmes, say industry insiders.
She stressed the importance of procurement by local authorites being more based on quality and outcomes rather than just cost.
In addition to slashing jobs, HP said it hopes to wring cost savings out of areas such as real estate, information technology and procurement.
Labour said it welcomed any progress but action was needed to "professionalise defence procurement, ensure contingency is sufficient and that industry partners deliver to targets for time and cost".
The problem of cost overruns lies not so much in the F-22 itself as in the entire government procurement and development process, an area that badly needs reform.
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