The Brooks Act, is it relevant today?

This paper analyzes the long term effect of Congressional legislation and how it affects the acquisition process. Understanding the basics behind the Brooks Act and how the environment surrounding information technology (IT) acquisitions has changed, is necessary to make an evaluation of how this Act affects the acquisition of Automated Data Processing Equipment (APDE). After synthesizing the bottom-line necessity of the Act, a progression through the law's subsequent changes, and a review of legislative, environmental, and Governmental changes that occurred since 1965, it W3S concluded that: the Congressional intent behind the Brooks Act has been overcome by events aad the Act and various Governmental regulations should be eliminated to allow Fed:ral agencies and employees the ability to adjust to rapidly changing technologies. Recommendations included repeal of the Brooks Act and/or implementation of National Performance Review (NPR) and other acquisition streamlining initiatives.

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

1994

Author dc:creator

• Willis, Charles I.

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Frew, Barry
• Stone, Mark W.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/42927

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/42927