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Author : Merton J. Peck
Publisher : Boston, Harvard U
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Weapons Acquisition Process written by Merton J. Peck and published by Boston, Harvard U. This book was released on 1962 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic M. Scherer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Weapons Acquisition Process written by Frederic M. Scherer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's thesis, Harvard University. Bibliography: p. 433-438.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Panel on Defense Procurement Procedures
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition Policy and Procedures written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Panel on Defense Procurement Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisitions written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO reviewed the processes that France, the United Kingdom, West Germany, Israel, and the Soviet Union use to acquire weapon systems. GAO found that, in the four countries visited: (1) the Ministries of Defense have a separate directorate or agency responsible for the entire procurement function for all new weapon system acquisitions although the military services play a role in the acquisition process; (2) each country follows roughly the same general acquisition phases for its major weapons systems; (3) each country conducts two major types of tests, developmental and operational; (4) the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel generally use a specific monetary level to designate a major weapon system, but France and West Germany use more general criteria; (5) the extent of ownership or control over the defense industrial base varies; and (6) each country's legislature exercises varying degrees of oversight of the defense budget and most major acquisition programs. The Soviet Union offered the most contrast because it has a planned command economy which is hierarchically organized with a single political party. In general, the Soviet Union prefers: (1) modest technology advances; (2) low cost; (3) weapons in quantity; (4) disciplined system acquisition; (5) conservative design; and (6) extensive operational testing. However, even with this data, it would be difficult to compare the efficiency of the other countries' acquisition processes to the United States' because of fundamental political, cultural, and economic differences. Significant variations make it difficult to determine if the United States should adopt any of the acquisition practices of the other countries.
Author : Gene L. Dodaro
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437914691
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Defense Acquisitions written by Gene L. Dodaro and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas L. McNaugher
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815718703
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (187 download)
Download or read book New Weapons, Old Politics written by Thomas L. McNaugher and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781289230890
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) major weapons acquisition issues, focusing on the cultural aspects of acquisition problems. GAO found that: (1) despite attempts to improve the acquisition process, weapons still cost more, take longer to field, often encounter performance problems, and are difficult to produce or support; (2) cost growth, schedule delays, and performance shortfalls can befall weapons acquisition programs that are not well conceived, planned, managed, funded, and supported; (3) many analyses for justifying major acquisitions are narrowly focused and do not fully consider alternative solutions; (4) many acquisition programs take longer and cost more to develop and produce weapons than the estimates on which the programs were initially approved; (5) weapons take too long to develop and field; (6) weapons begin production too quickly and are fielded with major unknowns or unresolved problems and many weapons encounter significant problems on the production line and in the field; (7) program sponsors frequently make optimistic cost assumptions and reduce quantities or program scope or prolong the schedule to make a program affordable and thereby avoid cancellation; (8) program survival is a more powerful incentive than program affordability; (9) successful programs have tended to pursue reasonable performance objectives and avoid the effects of design instability and the equation of program success with technical success; and (10) reforms in management practices include realistic estimating, thorough testing, and accurate reporting.
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422308653
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Weapons Acquisition: DoD Should Strengthen Policies for Assessing Technical Data Needs to Support Weapon Systems written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army and the Air Force have encountered limitations in their sustainment plans for some fielded weapon systems because they lacked needed technical data rights. The lack of technical data rights has limited the services flexibility to make changes to sustainment plans that are aimed at achieving cost savings and meeting legislative requirements regarding depot maintenance capabilities. During our review we identified seven Army and Air Force weapon system programs where these military services encountered limitations in implementing revisions to sustainment plans C-17 aircraft, F-22 aircraft, C-130J aircraft, Up-armored High- Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), Stryker family of vehicles, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, and M4 carbine. Although the circumstances surrounding each case were unique, earlier decisions made on technical data rights during system acquisition were cited as a primary reason for the limitations subsequently encountered. As a result of the limitations encountered due to the lack of technical data rights, the services had to alter their plans for developing maintenance capability at public depots, new sources of supply to increase production, or competitive offers for the acquisition of spare parts and components to reduce sustainment costs. For example, the Air Force identified a need to develop a capability to perform maintenance on the C-17 at government depots but lacked the requisite technical data rights. Consequently, the Air Force is seeking to form partnerships with C-17 subvendors to develop its depot maintenance capability. Its efforts to form these partnerships have had mixed results, according to Air Force officials, because some sub-vendors have declined to provide the needed technical data.
Author : John Ronald Fox
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Defense Management Challenge written by John Ronald Fox and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giles K. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A Preliminary Perspective on Regulatory Activities and Effects in Weapons Acquisition written by Giles K. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many managers and executives responsible for weapons acquisition, both in industry and the Department of Defense, argue that regulations are inhibiting the timely and economical development of weapon systems. This report presents quantitative analyses of the effects of regulations and controls on management practices and overall outcomes of weapons acquisition projects. The authors conclude that, on the basis of currently available information, it is not possible to correlate regulatory activity and program outcomes--no cause-and-effect relationships can be inferred.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Acquisition Process in the Department of Defense written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Acquisition of Major Weapons Systems by the Department of Defense and S. 454, the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. S. Przemieniecki
Publisher : AIAA
ISBN 13 : 9781563470691
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Acquisition of Defense Systems written by J. S. Przemieniecki and published by AIAA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step guide to defense system acquisition, this valuable textbook describes the step-by-step defense system acquisition process. The text begins by introducing the requirements and acquisition process and then outlines the formal framework of the acquisition process. "Acquisition of Defense Systems" makes an excellent primary or supplemental text for DoD courses. It's also a must-read for all defense system managers, as well as other managers doing DoD contract work.
Author : John Ronald Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Arming America; how the U.S. Buys Weapons written by John Ronald Fox and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
