| Description |
1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1 The Fast and the Many The Theoretical Background on Small Firms and Alliances in the Arms Industry; 2 Dream Teams and Brilliant Eyes The SBIRS Low Program, Northrop Grumman's Acquisition of TRW, and the Implications for the Structure of the Military Space Industry; 3 Unmanned, Unafraid, and Underscoped Success in Four Wars withthe Predator Reconnaissance-Strike Drone; 4 Five Bombs in One Hole, and Cheaply The Joint Direct Attack Munition and the Mass Production of Precision Destruction; 5 Dili and the Pirates HMAS Jervis Bay and the Military Potential of Aluminum Catamarans |
| Summary |
With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in Arms and Innovation that small firms have a number of advantages relative to their bigger competitors. Such firms are marked by an entrepreneurial spirit and fewer bureaucratic obstacles, and thus can both be more responsive to changes in the environment and more strategic in their planning. This is demonstrated, Hasik shows, by such innovation in military technologies as those that protect troops from roads |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-183) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Defense industries -- United States
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Defense industries -- Technological innovations -- United States
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
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Defense industries
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Defense industries -- Technological innovations
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226318899 |
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0226318893 |
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1281957100 |
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9781281957108 |
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