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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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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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ISBN 13 :
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 : Thomas C. Lassman
Publisher : Department of the Army
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: Role of Research and Development 1945-2000 written by Thomas C. Lassman and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad historical overview of changing institutional patterns of technological innovation with the Defense Department's major weapons laboratories.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309091241
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Firearms and Violence written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : WARREN A. CHIN
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138356627
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (566 download)
Download or read book British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform written by WARREN A. CHIN and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2004. This incisive work reveals the causes of escalating costs and delays in British defence procurement from 1945 to the present, considering how successive British governments reacted to this problem and why they adopted the reforms they did.
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Joint Vision 2020 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309184088
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-08-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense Systems had a broad mandate-to examine the use of statistics in conjunction with defense testing. This involved examining methods for software testing, reliability test planning and estimation, validation of modeling and simulation, and use of modem techniques for experimental design. Given the breadth of these areas, including the great variety of applications and special issues that arise, making a contribution in each of these areas required that the Panel's work and recommendations be at a relatively general level. However, a variety of more specific research issues were either brought to the Panel's attention by members of the test and acquisition community, e.g., what was referred to as Dubin's challenge (addressed in the Panel's interim report), or were identified by members of the panel. In many of these cases the panel thought that a more in-depth analysis or a more detailed application of suggestions or recommendations made by the Panel would either be useful as input to its deliberations or could be used to help communicate more individual views of members of the Panel to the defense test community. This resulted in several research efforts. Given various criteria, especially immediate relevance to the test and acquisition community, the Panel has decided to make available three technical or background papers, each authored by a Panel member jointly with a colleague. These papers are individual contributions and are not a consensus product of the Panel; however, the Panel has drawn from these papers in preparation of its final report: Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition. The Panel has found each of these papers to be extremely useful and they are strongly recommended to readers of the Panel's final report.
Author : James H. Lebovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429723806
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Foregone Conclusions written by James H. Lebovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the end of the Cold War and the erosion of the Soviet threat, the United States is reevaluating its defense policy and its acquisition of weapons. James Lebovic shows that, although current military missions are adapted to post-Cold War realities, the self-defeating bias of bureaucrats and military services toward Cold War weaponry is still prevalent. He examines the impact of this bias on the armed services as they assess threat, generate requirements, develop and change weapon concepts, set production rates, and engage in testing. The author asserts that bias compromises service interests and broader military objectives and he offers general policy recommendations to put U.S. weapons acquisition on a more effective track.
Author : Theo Farrell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349251097
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Weapons without a Cause written by Theo Farrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are certain weapons acquired in the United States and others not? Theo Farrell addresses this question by examining the strategic, institutional and budgetary issues surrounding four major weapon programmes. Extensive use is made of primary sources in analysing the origins, development and outcomes of these programmes. This book presents alarming evidence to show how the military services manipulate weapons acquisition to suit their own ends rather than national security. It also analyses how Congress, motivated by concerns over cost, comes to play a greater role in shaping programme outcomes once weapons enter production.
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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Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160876219
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Providing the Means of War written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
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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:
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.
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Publisher : Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction written by and published by Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economy in Government
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Acquisition of Weapons Systems written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Economy in Government and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309449065
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are examples of successful weapon systems acquisition programs within the U.S. Air Force (USAF), many of the programs are still incurring cost growth, schedule delays, and performance problems. The USAF now faces serious challenges in acquiring and maintaining its weapons systems as it strives to maintain its current programs; add new capabilities to counter evolving threats; and reduce its overall program expenditures. Owning the technical baseline is a critical component of the Air Force's ability to regain and maintain acquisition excellence. Owning the technical baseline allows the government acquisition team to manage and respond knowledgeably and effectively to systems development, operations, and execution, thereby avoiding technical and other programmatic barriers to mission success. Additionally, owning the technical baseline ensures that government personnel understand the user requirements, why a particular design and its various features have been selected over competing designs, and what the options are to pursue alternative paths to the final product given unanticipated cost, schedule, and performance challenges. Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force discusses the strategic value to the Air Force of owning the technical baseline and the risk of not owning it and highlights key aspects of how agencies other than the Air Force own the technical baseline for their acquisition programs. This report identifies specific barriers to owning the technical baseline for the Air Force and makes recommendations to help guide the Air Force in overcoming those barriers.
