Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Army Procurement Procedure
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Army Procurement Procedure
Author: United States Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Army Procurement Procedure, 1 March 1969 Edition
Author: United States Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Army Procurement Procedure
Author: United States. Dept. of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Army procurement circular
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Army Procurement Procedure
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Army Procurement Procedure [1 April 1965
Author: Army Procurement Procedure
Author: United States. Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Procurement
Author: David L. BeldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
New Weapons, Old Politics
Author: Thomas L. McNaugherPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815718703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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.