Defense Contract Management Agency
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| Formed | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Fort Lee, Virginia, United States |
| Employees | 10,637 civilian 472 military |
| Annual budget | $1.3 billion |
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| Website | dcma |
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is an agency of the United States federal government reporting to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. It is responsible for administering contracts for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other authorized federal agencies. Its headquarters is located at Fort Lee, Virginia. DCMA often handles Foreign Military Sales contracts.
History
Contract administration within DoD has been studied and modified for many years. In the early 1960s, a study was commissioned by the Secretary of Defense to examine the entire DoD contracting process. Known as "Project 60," the findings pointed to numerous benefits of consolidating contract administration and audit. At that time, each defense agency and military service was administering and auditing its own contracts, which resulted in a great amount of duplicate effort. Many of the contract administration responsibilities were eventually moved to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). However, the military services continued to retain oversight of the major weapon systems acquisition programs.
Defense Contract Management Command (DCMC)
The contract administration process was again reviewed in 1989. Citing continued problems with the manner in which the services were administering contracts, a Defense Management Review Decision (DMRD) 916 recommended the establishment of a joint command to administer defense contracts, to ensure that consistent policies and standards were applied to the defense acquisition process. DCMC was established as a command within the Defense Logistics Agency in February 1990 to satisfy the findings of DMRD 916.
DCMA
On March 27, 2000, DCMC was renamed as the Defense Contract Management Agency and established independently from DLA. In DoD Directive 5105.64, the Deputy Secretary of Defense formally established the mission, responsibilities and functions of DCMA; save for 18 specific exceptions detailed in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, DoD activities normally delegate a wide variety of contract administration functions to DCMA.
The DCMA headquarters moved from a northern Virginia location to Fort Lee, Virginia, as part of the federal 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process. The new headquarters was dedicated as Herbert Homer Hall on September 15, 2011. Homer was a DCMA employee killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.[1]
According to the DoD's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Estimate, DCMA has 10,637 civilian and 472 military personnel, located in over 740 locations, managing over 19,000 contractors and nearly 350,000 active contracts. The operations and maintenance budget estimate for fiscal year 2015 was approximately $1.3 billion. [2]
In 2018, DCMA and the four military services approved a duty badge for military personnel to wear while assigned to DCMA. A matching lapel pin version is also available for civilian employees. The badge and lapel pin were designed by military officers assigned to DCMA, working with The Institute Of Heraldry (TIOH). The badge and pin are approved by TIOH. [3]
The current director is Vice Admiral David H. Lewis of the United States Navy.[4]
References
- ^ DCMA news release (September 1, 2011). "DCMA to officially open new HQ on Fort Lee". Archived from the original on April 7, 2015. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ^ "Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Estimates Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)" (PDF). March 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
- ^ "DCMA personnel now authorized to wear new organization badge". 1 August 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ "About Us".
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