Technology

Computer Procurement in Metro West

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

This hypothetical case examines the computer procurement process in a medium-sized city. It focuses on the relative flexibility with which the "Metro West" Information Services Department is able to deal with vendors--particularly compared to...

CALS: Linking the Government and its Vendors

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

This case follows the early stages of the development of a Department of Defense computer infrastructure for the receiving and storing of engineering drawings for weapons systems. Prior to the effort to develop the Computer-Aided Acquisition and...

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...

Taking Toshiba Public

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In 1986, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned of an illegal sale of sophisticated milling machine equipment to the Soviet Union by Japanese and Norwegian companies. What became known to the public as the Toshiba case--although the...

HIV and DC: The AIDS Testing Issue

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

In November 1985, District of Columbia Councilmember John Ray introduced a bill that would have imposed a five-year moratorium on all kinds of applicant AIDS-testing in the district by health, life, and disability insurers. Ray wrote the bill...

The SEC and EDGAR

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to try to improve the speed and spread of the new information about firms contained in SEC filings, he turned to a computer system. On one level, the Electronic Data Gathering,...

Air Force and Remotely Piloted Vehicles

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

This case examines US Air Force attitudes toward the development and procurement of airplanes that fly without pilots, otherwise known as remotely piloted vehicles or RPVs. Specifically, the case describes the Pave Tiger and Seek Spinner RPVs,...

Civil War Shoulder Arms (B Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

Civil War Shoulder Arms (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...

Civil War Shoulder Arms (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1987

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Union army faced the task of supplying the growing numbers of Union conscripts with shoulder arms. Existing government stockpiles were inadequate, and the chief of ordnance was forced to consider the...