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Author Gansler, Jacques S.

Title Democracy's arsenal : creating a twenty-first-century defense industry / Jacques S. Gansler
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages) : illustrations
Contents The challenge -- The defense industry in perspective -- National security in the 21st century -- Characteristics of the industry in the early 21st century -- The workforce (industry, government, and university) -- The criticality of research and development -- Competition in defense acquisitions -- Other nations defense industry strategy -- Transforming the U.S. national security industry
Summary The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense
Analysis SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Defense industries -- Technological innovations -- United States
Research, Industrial -- United States
Military-industrial complex -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
HISTORY -- Military -- Weapons.
Defense industries -- Technological innovations
Military-industrial complex
Research, Industrial
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010036043
ISBN 9780262295260
0262295261