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Forces or Trends 1 (from the remote or industry environment
(A) A detailed description of the force or trend
A trend within government, especially among the procurement agencies, such as the United States Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), is the shrinking budget. Each year, Congress expects these agencies to produce more in defense capability for less money. Savings are then applied to the rebuilding of the Air Force infrastructure, such as more air fuel tankers, fighters, bombers and surveillance planes. This applies especially to the execution of such functional processes as program management, contracting and financial management. Such trends brought experimentation with such programs as Total System Program Responsibility, or TSPR, to eliminate the strict insight and oversight of programs by a large government workforce. After a number of failures, more government engineers and program managers were brought back into the process to ensure strict adherence to process quality in execution and delivery of hardware to the launch pad. As the war bills continue to come in more and more cuts in the acquisition budgets will be made to pay for the infrastructure bills.
(B) The relevance of the force or trend to your chosen organization
The 2007 budget bill mandated strict cuts in manpower to pay for capital infrastructure bills. The execution phase for the Air Force is known as Presidential Budget Decision Memorandum 720. This has forced personnel off of the Federal payroll and brought an increase in the contractor force. The cuts at the Space and Missile Systems Center amounted to approximately 470 positions over fiscal years 2007-2011. H ...