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Adapting to flexible response, 1960-1968
Title:
Adapting to flexible response, 1960-1968
Author:
Poole, Walter S., 1943- , author.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2013
Physical Description:
xvi, 467 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
General Note:
"... It is the second of five planned volumes in the series of History of acquisition in the Department of Defense"--Volume II.
Language:
English
Contents:
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 -- 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 Degense Contract Administration Services -- 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 Hersey pricing conference -- Dissolving the link between incentives and profits -- Total package procurement -- Program management and the program manager -- Concurrency -- Alternatives : prototyping or component growth -- Case study : the Mark II Avionics System -- Rating government versus private contributions -- Forecast and hindsight -- The Army Materiel command -- Choosing a rifle : M-14 versus AR-15 -- Shillelaghs, Sheridans, and M60a -- 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 -- 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 -- A complex design concept -- General dynamics and the prime contract -- Teaching troubles -- The travails of "Icarus" -- The Navy scuttles its version -- A disappearing balance sheet -- Polaris and Poseidon -- Minuteman I, II, and III -- Missile defense meets insuperable obstacles -- 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" -- Mission rivalry : DoD and NASA -- Cancellations : Dyna-Soar and the manned orbiting laboratory -- Workhorse : Titan III -- 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.
Format :
Book