Given the dramatic changes in the environment for national defense, concurrent with rapid improvements in commercial manufacturing capabilities, the Department of Defense (DOD) requires a new approach to designing, engineering, manufacturing, buying, and upgrading weapon systems.
This book provides both a vision for that new approach and a strategy by which the DOD can accomplish the necessary changes. The result will be a higher quality, more cost-effective weapon systems and a stronger industrial base while still accommodating diminishing procurement budgets.
- BREAKING THE MOLD
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- IMPLEMENTING A NEW DEFENSE MANUFACTURING STRATEGY: AN ILLUSTRATIVE MODEL
- Create a Vision of Manufacturing
- Create a Working Cadre
- Select a Change Strategy
- Communicating The Initiative
- LATER IN THE CHANGE PROCESS
- SUMMARY
- 1 Defense Manufacturing on the Defensive
- THE DEFENSE BUDGET
- TECHNOLOGY
- COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURING RENEWAL
- NOTES
- 2 A Change Process...That Changes...
- 3 The Change Process
- STEP 1: PREPARATION
- STEP 2: COMMITMENT
- STEP 3: DEPLOYMENT
- STEP 4: ACTION
- STEP 5: REINFORCEMENT
- STEP 6: RESULTS MEASUREMENT AND FEEDBACK
- SUMMARY
- NOTES
- 4 DoD Is Different...Partly
- CHANGING PROCUREMENT, ACCOUNTING, AND AUDITING PROCESSES
- PROBLEM SOLVING, SKILL DEVELOPMENT, AND TEAM BUILDING
- TRAINING
- DECENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
- MANAGEMENT TURNOVER
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND REWARD SYSTEMS
- IMPROVEMENT AND RESOURCES
- MEASURE PROGRESS OVER THE LONG RUN
- NOTES
- 5 ''We're Already Doing That!"
- 6 Defense Manufacturing Would Be Different
- 7 Implementing a New Defense Manufacturing Strategy: An Illustrative Model
- CREATE A VISION OF MANUFACTURING
- CREATE A WORKING CADRE
- SELECT A CHANGE STRATEGY
- COMMUNICATING THE INITIATIVE
- LATER IN THE CHANGE PROCESS
- APPENDIXES
- A Review of Study Panels
- PANEL ON NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
- PANEL ON POLICY
- PANEL ON PROGRAM INITIATIVES
- PANEL ON SUPPLIERS
- WORLD-CLASS CUSTOMERS2
- WORLD-CLASS SUPPLIERS
- NOTES
- B A Review of Selected Reports on Defense Acquisition and Management
- SUMMARIES OF PAST REPORTS
- SYNOPSIS OF RELEVANT DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD REPORTS
- DOD DIRECTIVES, INSTRUCTIONS AND OTHER POLICY DOCUMENTS
- C Suggested Reading
- Bibliography
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