Government Contracts USA history

In 1985, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) was established to provide the Army with a contingency contracting capability.

In FY 1986, DCAS worked with more than 28,000 contractors in the United States, administering more than 407,000 prime contracts worth $262 billion.

In October 1990, the Defense Contract Management Command International was established at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio (transferred from Air Force Materiel Command).

DCMC introduced the defense contract management office (DCMO) concept in March 1991.

In December 1992, DCMC managed contracts for the construction and maintenance of base camps, operations of food services, the production and distribution of water supply, and language services in support of the UN mission in Somalia.

The Mid Atlantic and North Central districts were disestablished in 1994 under the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process.

In 1995, DCMC became the lead agent for DoD Single Process Initiative, a program that created over $450 million in cost savings and avoidances in just over two years.

In May 1999, DCMC began providing contract management support to NATO troops in Kosovo.

Headlines will blare; Congress will overreact; and the cycle of government contracting reforms will continue. [Since the second edition was published in 2005] that has happened in spades." Thus past is prologue.