Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Seapower and Expeditionary Forces SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Current Status of the Joint Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Seapower and Expeditionary Forces SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Seapower and Expeditionary Forces SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Securing the MRAP
Author: James HasikPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623499437
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Dwight D. Eisenhower once quipped, “You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.” Military acquisition and procurement—that is, how a nation manages investments, technologies, programs, and support—is critical to wartime success or failure. When unexpected battlefield problems arise, how do the government, the military, and industry work together to ensure effective solutions? During the American counterinsurgent campaign in Iraq, the improvised explosive device emerged as a disruptive and devastating threat. As Humvees, and their occupants, were ripped apart by IEDs, it was clear that new solutions had to be found. These solutions already existed but had not been procured, highlighting the need for more effective marketing to the military by industry. The ultimate successful response—the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP—required years of entrepreneurial marketing by the defense industry. In Securing the MRAP: Lessons Learned in Marketing and Military Procurement, James Hasik explores how these vehicles, which the American military mostly rejected despite the great need for them, eventually came to be adopted as the Pentagon’s top procurement priority. Hasik traces the story of the MRAP from the early 1970s to the future of mine-resistant vehicles on the battlefields of tomorrow. An important contribution to the seemingly disparate fields of marketing and defense policy, Securing the MRAP is an eye-opening revelation to defense industrialists, military officers, and government officials who want to understand how to avoid another IED-Humvee debacle.
Weapon Systems
Author: 2010 Weapon Systems
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Current Status of U.S. Ground Forces
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
U.S. Army Weapons Systems 2010-2011
Author: U.S. Department of the ArmyPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1602397252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
An up-to-date and in-depth look at the weapons used today by the United States...
Weapon Systems 2012
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Command and control systems
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Arming America at War
Author: Lawrence R. JonesPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 161735063X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
This book follows the evolution of a model for quick and efficient national defense war fighting asset acquisition during time of war. It documents the case of a critically important war fighting acquisition program from initial needs identification and program start in 2006 through production and fielding in the period 2007-2010. The analysis focuses on the entire process of acquisition and contracting from concept development through getting the weapons system into action in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles program (MRAP) is a rapid acquisition program procured within the context of the US Department of Defense's Acquisition Management and Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) framework. The analysis in this book answers the following question: What are the key factors that explain the success of the MRAP program, with success defined as meeting program objectives and warfighter needs? In addition, this book addresses the critical trade-offs made within the MRAP program to develop it rapidly, and some of the potential long-term impacts of these decisions, both positive and negative, for rapid defense asset acquisition in time of war.