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MBA Professional Report, The purpose of this project is to assess the contracting processes capabilities at Commander, Fleet, and Industrial Supply Centers (COMFISCS), which includes all seven Fleet and Industrial Supply Center (FISC) locations. These locations are Jacksonville, FL; Norfolk, VA; Pearl Harbor, HI; Puget Sound, WA; San Diego, CA; Sigonella, Italy; and Yokosuka, Japan. This analysis was conducted using the Contract Management Maturity Model (CMMM). The primary purpose of this study is to analyze FISC's contracting processes to identify key process-area strengths and weaknesses and to provide a road map for possible improvement if needed. This study also focuses on the specific metrics currently used by COMFISCS to measure the performance of its contracting management processes. The results will provide COMFISCS and the individual FISC Commanders a snapshot of the maturity level of their contracting processes both individually and as a whole. This will allow COMFISCS to identify the unique challenges that each individual FISC is facing and provide an assessment tool on how to effectively engage and overcome these challenges and potentially improve the organization's contracting process., http://archive.org/details/analysisofcontra1094510429, Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

MBA Professional Report, In an increasingly constrained resource environment, the enterprise approach was introduced in the U.S. Navy to empower stakeholders across multiple commands to take a holistic view of objectives and processes and become unified to achieve required output with greater efficiency. As a member of the Navy Provider Enterprise, Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) is responsible for providing services, equipment and other resources to the Warfare Enterprises with focus of future readiness at minimal cost. This project focuses on enterprise practices within NAVSUP. It analyzes how NAVSUP Enterprise was implemented and designed to function within the Navy Provider Enterprise construct. This project also describes NAVSUP's execution of the organizational change process and analyzes to what extent change is occurring. The results of this thesis reveal that the NAVSUP Provider Enterprise is achieving positive organizational change through the implementation of collaborative enterprise management practices. The thesis reveals some identifiable organizational challenges and change issues that inhibit the achievement of NAVSUP Provider Enterprise goals. These findings are used to develop and present a series of recommendations to assist the leadership to further align NAVSUP Provider Enterprise actions with the change objectives., http://archive.org/details/annalyticalhisto1094510619, US Navy (USN) authors

MBA Professional Report, The purpose of this project is to assess the maturity of Naval Sea Systems Command's (NAVSEA) Contract Management processes. NAVSEA is headquartered in Washington, DC. The analysis of NAVSEA will be conducted using the Contract Management Maturity Model (CMMM). The primary purpose of this research is to analyze NAVSEA's contracting processes utilizing the Contract Management Maturity Assessment Tool (CMMAT), to identify key process area strengths and weaknesses, and to provide a road map for possible improvement if needed. This research reviews and categorizes the results of several Peer Reviews performed on NAVSEA by the six phases of the contract management process. This research also analyzes and categorizes openended responses to a question on critical success factors conducted on NAVSEA contracting personnel. The results will provide NAVSEA a snapshot of the maturity level of their contracting processes. This will allow NAVSEA to identify the unique challenges that it is facing and provide an assessment tool on how to effectively engage and overcome these challenges and potentially improve the organization's contracting process., http://archive.org/details/analysisofcontra1094510490