An edition of History of acquisition in the Department of Defense
(2012)
History of acquisition in the Department of Defense
by Elliott Vanveltner Converse
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History of acquisition in the Department of Defense
2012, Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense
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VOLUME 1. I. WORLD WAR II: A WATERSHED. II. ORGANIZING FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: OSD AND ACQUISITION, 1945-1949. Coordination of Research and Development Prior to the National Security Act ; The Research and Development Board ; Coordination of Procurement Prior to the National Security Act ; The Munitions Board
III. THE RESPONSE TO WAR: OSD AND ACQUISITION, 1950-1953. Rearmament: Purposes and Organizations ; Requirements Estimates and Production Schedules ; Production Difficulties ; The Attack on Production Delays ; Production Priorities ; Research and Development
IV. MISSION AND MATERIEL: THE ARMY AND ACQUISITION, 1945-1953. The Army, 1945-1953: An Overview ; Organization for Acquisition ; Research and Development ; Procurement and Production
V. EMERGENCE OF THE WEAPON SYSTEM CONCEPT: THE AIR FORCE AND ACQUISITION, 1945-1953. The Air Force, 1945-1953: An Overview ; Organizing to Exploit Science and Technology ; Determining Requirements ; Managing the Acquisition Process
VI. THE AIR FORCE AND THE AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. Industry Overview ; The Air Force and the Industry's Postwar Crisis ; The Air Force, Boeing, and B-47 Production ; Employment of Retired Military Officers in Industry
VII. DECENTRALIZATION AND FRAGMENTATION: THE NAVY AND ACQUISITION, 1945-1953. An Overview of the Navy, 1945-1953 ; Organization for Acquisition ; Acquisition of a Nuclear Weapons Delivery Capability ; The Marine Corps and Acquisition: The Amtracs
VIII. CENTRALIZATION BEGINS: OSD AND ACQUISITION, 1953-1960. The Eisenhower Administration and National Defense ; Organization for Acquisition ; The Robertson Committee ; The Acquisition Workforce
IX. ASCENDANCY OF THE WEAPON SYSTEM CONCEPT: THE AIR FORCE AND ACQUISITION, 1953-1960. The Air Force in the 1950s ; Organization for Acquisition ; The Weapon System Concept and the Acquisition Process ; The B-58 Strategic Bomber ; The Weapon System Concept and Ballistic Missiles
X. TOWARD CENTRALIZATION AND THE SYSTEMS APPROACH: THE NAVY AND ACQUISITION, 1953-1960. The Navy in the Eisenhower Years ; Acquisition Organization and Management ; Naval Aviation: Toward the Weapon System Approach
XI. CREATING A MISSILE AND ROCKET FORCE: THE ARMY AND ACQUISITION, 1953-1960. The Nuclear Army of the Eisenhower Era ; Centralization of Research and Development Management ; The Attack on Lead Time ; Missile Acquisition and Industry Relationships.
VOLUME 2. I. STRATEGIC SETTING: STRIVING FOR FLEXIBILITY. Emphasizing Nuclear Retaliation ; Strategy Changes Quickly, Capability Slowly ; Reworking Nuclear Requirements ; Graduated Pressure: Theory and Practice ; The Industrial Base: Pushing "State of the Art" ; The Political and Economic Environment
II. BIDDING FOR CONTROL: SECRETARY McNamara AND THE SERVICES. Creating the PPBS and FYDP ; Changing the Locus of Decisionmaking: 1961-1964 ; "System Analysis" Becomes a Fighting Term: 1965-1968 ; Defining the Acquisition Cycle ; Reworking Logistic Guidance ; Contributions of the Defense Supply Agency and the Defense Contract ; Administration Services
III. THE SHORTCOMINGS OF FIXED-PRICE CONTRACTING. Contracting in the 1950s ; Profit Opportunity: Spur of Efficiency or to Deception? ; The Turn to Fixed-Price Incentive Contracts ; Striving for "Truth" in Cost Estimates ; Challenging the Rationale for Incentives ; Streamlining Procedures ; The Hershey Pricing Conference ; Dissolving the Link Between Incentives and Profits ; Total Package Procurement ; Program Management and the Program Manager
IV. INNOVATION: COPING WITH THE "UNANTICIPATED UNKNOWNS". Concurrency ; Alternatives: Prototyping or Component Growth ; Case Study: The Mark II Avionics System ; Rating Government versus Private Contributions ; Forecast and Hindsight
V. THE ARMY RE-EQUIPS ITSELF. The Army Materiel Command ; Choosing a Rifle: M-14 versus AR-15 ; Shillelaghs, Sheridans, and M60s ; Failure of the MBT70 Project ; TOW: A Success Story ; Forward Air Defense: Hits and Misses ; Sergeant: The Perils of Co-contracting ; The Helicopter Comes of Age
VI. THE AIR FORCE SHIFTS EMPHASIS. General Schriever and Systems Command ; Paradoxes of Aerospace Industry ; Reorienting Tactical Aircraft ; No New Manned Bomber ; Long-range Airlift: C-141 Shines, C-5A Stumbles
VII. The F-111: A SERIES OF OBSTACLES. A Complex Design Concept ; General Dynamics and the Prime Contract ; Teething Troubles ; The Travails of " Icarus" ; The Navy Scuttles Its Version ; A Disappointing Balance Sheet
VIII. MANAGING STRATEGIC MISSILE SYSTEMS. Polaris and Poseidon ; Minuteman I, II, and III ; Missile Defense Meets Insuperable Obstacles
IX. WARSHIPS AND THEIR WEAPONS. The Bureaus to System Commands ; The Shipbuilding Industry ; Nuclear Attack Submarines ; Travails of the Mark 48 Torpedo ; Nuclear-powered Surface Ships ; Destroyers and Escorts: Decisions Delayed ; Troubles of the "3 Ts"
X. SPACE VENTURES: A MIXED RECORD. Mission Rivalry: DoD and NASA ; Cancellations: Dyna-Soar and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory ; Workhorse: Titan III
XI. VIETNAM: PROVING GROUND AND GRAVEYARD. Managing Munitions Shortages ; The Advent of "Smart" Bombs ; Rolling Thunder as a Wizard War ; The M-16: Controversy Continues ; Army Helicopters: En Masse ; Marine Helicopters: Unique and Common ; Building an Infiltration Barrier.
vol. 1.
Rearming for the Cold War, 1945-1960 -- Eliott V. Converse III -- vol. 2.
Adapting to flexible response, 1960-1968 -- Walter S. Poole.
Edition Notes
Shipping list nos.: 2012-0283-P (v.1); 2014-0124-P (v.2).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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