In 1999, RAND published Defense Working Capital Fund Pricing Policies: Insights from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (Keating and Gates, 1999). That document analyzed the Defense Finance and Accounting Service’s (DFAS’s) cost structure and recommended changes in Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) pricing policies to better accord with DFAS’s cost structure. In early 2001, DFAS leadership asked RAND to further examine DFAS’s cost structure and pricing policies via a project entitled “Improving the Defense Finance and Accounting Service’s Price Structure.” This report summarizes the results of that examination. The authors recommend pricing policy changes to more closely align DFAS’s prices to its cost structure, thereby providing DFAS customers with.
