Total Package Procurement

Six Spruance-class destroyers fitting out in 1975; this class of warships was ordered under the Total Package Procurement policy

Total Package Procurement (TPP or alternatively TPPC) was a major systems acquisition policy introduced in the United States Department of Defense in the mid-1960s by Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara.[1] It was conceived by Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations and Logistics, Robert H. Charles.[2]

TPP involves combining as a single package for the procurement a number of related requirements including the design, development, production and support of major systems.[3] This concept was a "pendulum reaction" to the prior cost reimbursement policies in major weapon systems.[4]

Total Package Procurement was not successful and was abandoned shortly after MacNamara left office.[5][6]

  1. ^ Michaels, Jack V.; Wood, William P. (1989). Design to Cost. John Wiley & Sons. p. 238. ISBN 0471609005. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  2. ^ Williams, Michael D. (1999). Acquisition for the 21st century: the F-22 Development Program. National Defense University Press. p. 4. ISBN 9781428990876. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  3. ^ Code of Federal Regulations. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1 January 1969. p. 63. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  4. ^ Two Navy Ship Contracts Modified By Public Law 850804 -- Status As Of July 29, 1979 (PDF). Washington, D.C.: U.S. General Accounting Office. 29 July 1979. p. 1. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
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