Acquisition

Acquisition may refer to:

  • Takeover, the acquisition of a company
  • Mergers and acquisitions, strategy of buying and selling of various companies to quickly grow a company
  • Procurement, the acquisition of goods and/or services at the best possible total cost of ownership
  • Military acquisition, the process of acquiring products for national defence
  • Library acquisitions, the department of a library responsible for obtaining books
  • "Acquisition" (Star Trek: Enterprise), the 18th episode of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Seismic acquisition, the artificial generation and recording of seismic data
  • Acquisition (software), a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X
  • Acquisition (forensic process), the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics
  • Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency
  • Government procurement in the United States

    Government procurement in the United States is the process by which the federal government of the United States acquires goods, services (notably construction), and interests in real property. Contracts for government procurement usually involve appropriated funds spent on supplies, services, and interests in real property by and for the use of the federal government through purchase or lease, whether the supplies, services, or interests are already in existence or must be created, developed, demonstrated, and evaluated. See 48 C.F.R. § 2.101 ("Acquisition" defined, as to goods and services only). Federal government contracting has the same legal elements as contracting between private parties: a lawful purpose, competent contracting parties, an offer, an acceptance that complies with the terms of the offer, mutuality of obligation, and consideration. However, federal contracts are much more heavily regulated, subject to volumes of statutes dealing with federal contracts and the federal contracting process, mostly in Titles 10, 31, 40, and 41 of the United States Code.

    Military acquisition

    Military acquisition is the bureaucratic management and procurement process dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and support its armed forces. Its objective is to acquire products that satisfy specified needs and provide measurable improvement to mission capability at a fair and reasonable price.

    Concept

    Military acquisition has a long history spanning from ancient times (e.g., blacksmithing, shipbuilding) to modern times.

    Modern military acquisition is a complex blend of science, management, and engineering disciplines within the context of a nation's law and regulation framework to produce military material and technology. This complexity evolved from the increasing complexity of weapon systems starting in the 20th century. For example, the Manhattan Project involved more than 130,000 people at an estimated cost of nearly $24 billion in 2008 dollars.

    In the twenty-first century, the trend has been for countries to cooperate in military procurement, due to the rising cost-per-unit of digital age military hardware such as ships and jets. For example, NORDEFCO (established 2009) is a grouping of Nordic countries that cooperate in defence spending, the Defence and Security Co-operation Treaty was signed between the United Kingdom and France in 2010, and Joint Strike Fighter program which selected the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II in 2001 included the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Turkey, Israel and Japan.

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