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Military Contracting: Getting Out of the Business

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

In 1982, more than 138,000 United States manufacturing firms sold products to the Department of Defense. Five years later, fewer than 40,000 companies were filling military orders. Most of the companies that closed out their military contracting...

SS-9 Controversy: Intelligence as Political Football

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird shocks the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with the view that a new Soviet missile will provide the USSR with a "first-strike" nuclear capability, the Central Intelligence Agency finds it must consider...

Selling Innovation: FOG-M, William McCorkle and the US Army (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

Throughout military history, soldiers have searched for new technology and new weapons that would give them a decisive advantage over their enemies. Some of these inventions -- the atomic-powered airplane, for example -- were met with great...

Selling Innovation: FOG-M, William McCorkle and the US Army

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

Throughout military history, soldiers have searched for new technology and new weapons that would give them a decisive advantage over their enemies. Some of these inventions -- the atomic-powered airplane, for example -- were met with great...

Siege Mentality: ABC, the White House and the Iran Hostage Crisis

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Iran hostage crisis of 1979-80 drew an unprecedented amount of press coverage in the US, especially from the major networks, which devoted a third of their time to the hostage story during the first six months. Of the three networks, ABC...

Certifying AMRAAM

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In March 1986, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was required by Congress to certify in writing that the Air Force's Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) program was proceeding according to plan: that its design was complete,...

Buying the Beretta: The Army's Dilemma (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

A handgun is a soldier's weapon of last resort. Face to face with the enemy, with no other means of fighting available save their bare hands, soldiers have always reached for the handguns holstered at their sides. Since 1911 the legendary Colt ...

Buying the Beretta: The Army's Dilemma (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

A handgun is a soldier's weapon of last resort. Face to face with the enemy, with no other means of fighting available save their bare hands, soldiers have always reached for the handguns holstered at their sides. Since 1911 the legendary Colt ...

Buying the Beretta: The Army's Dilemma (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

A handgun is a soldier's weapon of last resort. Face to face with the enemy, with no other means of fighting available save their bare hands, soldiers have always reached for the handguns holstered at their sides. Since 1911 the legendary Colt ...

Industry Policy and Competition in US Navy (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1984, the US Navy began the task of choosing a shipyard to build the first in a new class of guided missile destroyers, the last major surface combatant ships to be constructed for the navy in the 20th century. In an era when the shipbuilding...

Industry Policy and Competition in US Navy

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1984, the US Navy began the task of choosing a shipyard to build the first in a new class of guided missile destroyers, the last major surface combatant ships to be constructed for the navy in the 20th century. In an era when the shipbuilding...

Starting from Scratch: Alice Rivlin and the Congressional Budget Office (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When Alice Rivlin became the first director of the Congressional Budget Office in February 1975, she found herself in charge of a new agency with no staff, no permanent offices, a very sketchy mandate from Congress as to its duties and...