Breaking the Mold

Breaking the Mold

Forging a Common Defense Manufacturing Vision

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309047890
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309572996
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1993
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 97
  • DDC: 350
  • Language: English

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.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Executive Summary
  • Defense Manufacturing on the Defensive
  • A Change Process...That Changes
  • The Change Process
  • DOD is Different...Partly
  • 'We're Already Doing That!'
  • Defense Manufacturing Would Be Different
  • Implementing a New Defense Manufacturing Strategy: An Illustrative Model
  • Appendix A: Review of Study Panel
  • Appendix B: A Review of Selected Reports on Defense Acquisition and Management
  • Appendix C: Suggested Reading
  • Bibliography

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