Weapons Acquisitions
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Armed Forces
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Armed Forces
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2007
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ISBN : 1428935258
Author : Gene L. Dodaro
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437914691
This report examines how well DoD is planning and executing its weapon acquisition programs. The report includes: (1) an analysis of the overall performance of DoD's 2008 portfolio of 96 major defense acquisition programs and a comparison to the portfolio performance at two other points in time -- 5 years ago and 1 year ago; (2) an analysis of current cost and schedule outcomes and knowledge attained by key junctures in the acquisition process for a subset of 47 weapon programs -- primarily in development -- from the 2008 portfolio; (3) data on other factors that could impact program stability; and (4) an update on changes in DoD's acquisition policies. Includes a one- or two-page assessment of 67 weapon programs. Illustrations.
Author : Wilbur D. Jones
Publisher : Defense Systems Management College
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
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In a series of probing essays covering various periods in America’s military history, this official history tells the story of how United States weapons were developed and produced, what notable managers and organizations were involved, and which weapons from those periods had a significant impact on America’s wars.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economy in Government
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Page : 1222 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1973
Category : United States
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Examines DOD practices in procuring military weapons systems, other military hardware, and goods and services.
Author : Thomas L. McNaugher
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815718703
Americans spend more than $100 billion a year to buy weapons, but no one likes the process that brings these weapons into existence. The problem, McNaugher shows, is that the technical needs of engineers and military planners clash sharply with the political demands of Congress. McNaugher examines weapons procurement since World War II and shows how repeated efforts to improve weapons acquisition have instead increased the harmful intrusion of political pressures into that technical development and procurement process. Today's weapons are more complicated than their predecessors. So are the nation's military forces. The design of new systems and their integration into the force structure demand more care, time, and flexibility. Yet time and flexibility are precisely what political pressures remove from the acquisitions process. In a series of case studies and conceptual discussions, McNaugher tackles concerns at the heart of the debate about acquisition—the slow and heavily bureaucratic approach to development, the preference for ultimate weapons over well-organized and trained forces, and the counterproductive incentives facing the nation's defense firms. He calls for changes that run against the current fashion—less centralization or procurement, less haste in developing new weapons, and greater use of competition as a means of removing the development process from political oversight. Above all, McNaugher shows how the United States tries to buy research and development on the cheap, and how costly this has been. The nation can improve its acquisition process, he concludes, only when it recognizes the need to pay for the full exploration of new technology.
Author : Ashley Thomas Lenihan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107181860
This book focuses on the non-military military means through which states intervene to balance the economic and military power of other states. Also available as Open Access.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Precision guided munitions
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309091241
For years proposals for gun control and the ownership of firearms have been among the most contentious issues in American politics. For public authorities to make reasonable decisions on these matters, they must take into account facts about the relationship between guns and violence as well as conflicting constitutional claims and divided public opinion. In performing these tasks, legislators need adequate data and research to judge both the effects of firearms on violence and the effects of different violence control policies. Readers of the research literature on firearms may sometimes find themselves unable to distinguish scholarship from advocacy. Given the importance of this issue, there is a pressing need for a clear and unbiased assessment of the existing portfolio of data and research. Firearms and Violence uses conventional standards of science to examine three major themes - firearms and violence, the quality of research, and the quality of data available. The book assesses the strengths and limitations of current databases, examining current research studies on firearm use and the efforts to reduce unjustified firearm use and suggests ways in which they can be improved.
Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Weaponry does not equal strategy, argues Colin Gray, but the two are often confused, resulting in such linguistic errors as strategic weapons. There may be an interactive relationship between policy, strategy and weaponry but, he contends, policy and strategy always take the front seat.