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Adapting to flexible response, 1960-1968
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Adapting to flexible response, 1960-1968 / Walter S. Poole.
Publication
Washington, DC : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2013.
Physical Description
pages cm
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2014
Series
History of acquisition in the Department of Defense ; v. 2
History of acquisition in the Department of Defense ; v. 1
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
Bidding for control: Secretary McNamara and the services
Creating the PPBS and FYDP
Changing the locus of decisionmaking: 1961-1964
"Systems 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
The shortcomings of fixed-price contracting
Contracting in the 1950s
Profit opportunity: spur to 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
Innovation: coping with "unanticipated unknowns"
Concurrency
Alternatives: prototyping or component growth
Case study: the Mark II avionics system
Rating government versus private contributions
Forecast and hindsight
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
The Air Force shifts emphasis
General Schriever and systems command
Paradoxes of the aerospace industry
Reorienting tactical aircraft
No new manned bomber
Long-range airlift: C-141 shines, C-5a stumbles
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
Managing strategic missile systems
Polaris and Poseidon
Minuteman I, II, and III
Missile defense meets insuperable obstacles
Warships and their weapons
From bureaus to systems 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"
Space ventures: a mixed record
Mission rivalry: DoD and NASA
Cancellations: Dyna-soar and the manned orbiting laboratory
Workhorse: Titan III
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
Conclusion
Appendix: Key acquisition officials, 1959-1969
List of abbreviations.
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