Author: Vernon W. Ruttan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198040652
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Military and defense-related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad spectrum of industries that account for an important share of United States industrial production. In this book, the author focuses on six general-purpose technologies: interchangeable parts and mass production; military and commercial aircraft; nuclear energy and electric power; computers and semiconductors; the INTERNET; and the space industries. In each of these industries, technology development would have occurred more slowly, and in some case much more slowly or not at all, in the absence of military and defense-related procurement. The book addresses three questions that have significant implications for the future growth of the United States economy. One is whether changes in the structure of the United States economy and of the defense-industrial base preclude military and defense-related procurement from playing the role in the development of advanced technology in the future, comparable to the role it has played in the past. A second question is whether public support for commercially oriented research and development will become an important source of new general-purpose technologies. A third and more disturbing question is whether a major war, or the threat of major war, will be necessary to mobilize the scientific, technical, and financial resources necessary to induce the development of new general-purpose technologies. When the history of United States technology development in the next half century is written, it will focus on incremental rather than revolutionary changes in both military and commercial technology. It will also be written within the context of slower productivity growth than of the relatively high rates that prevailed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s or during the information technology bubble that began in the early 1990s. These will impose severe constraints on the capacity of the United States to sustain a global-class military posture and a position of leadership in the global economy.

Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Author: United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Federal Procurement and Regulation
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Stefan Markowski
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134229917
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Arms purchases are among the most expensive, technologically challenging and politically controversial decisions made by modern-day governments. Superpower spending on weapons systems is widely analysed and discussed. But defence procurement in smaller industrial countries involves different issues which receive less attention. This volume presents a general framework for understanding smaller country defence procurement supported by country, industry and project studies. Part I provides a general framework for analysing smaller country defence procurement, focusing on the formation of national defence capabilities. The framework is then used to analyse issues around the development of procurement demand, the characteristics of defence industry supply, contracts and relationships between buyers and sellers, and government policy for defence procurement and industry development. Part II focuses on defence procurement in seven smaller industrial nations with widely varying historical and political settings (Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands). Part III consists of two Australian case studies of the procurement issues raised in, respectively, the naval shipbuilding industry and in a major, complex defence project. The book addresses the needs of public and private sector managers, military planners, procurement specialists, industry policy-makers, and defence procurement and industry educators. It presents general principles in an accessible manner and points to real-world experience to illustrate the principles at work. Therefore it will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in defence economics, strategic procurement, public sector procurement, and defence industry policy.

Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Federal Procurement and Regulation
Publisher:
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Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 17

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