Defense Industrial Base: Hearings Before the Structure of U.S. Defense Industrial Base Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Hearings Held July 12, November 1, 1991, January 23, February 5, 19, March 6, 10, and 18, 1992, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 748 páginas |
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Página 318 - a new five-year plan will occur in three areas: • Manufacturing methods to integrate process flows and products. Strengthening process technology for semiconductor manufacturing will directly enhance the capabilities available to the Department of Defense in microelectronic devices and increase reliability at lower cost. Measures to reduce cost sensitivity to manufacturing volume. Defense applications could be the largest single beneficiary of new manufacturing methods to capture immediately what...
Página 367 - ... competition, and accountability, many of them written during a period of rising military budgets, now create serious obstacles to the rationalization of the base and the greater integration of civilian and defense production. If this ad hoc restructuring process is allowed to proceed, it could jeopardize the Nation's future ability to develop affordable, high-performance weapon systems and to mobilize its defense industrial capacity in crisis and wartime. A rational transition to a downsized...
Página 358 - ... conditions and trends in the DTIB, and proposes some desirable characteristics for the future base. The report concludes with a discussion of the broad strategic choices and tactical decisions that must be considered as the Nation moves to this future base. The...
Página 370 - DT1B would produce military equipment in peacetime at affordable prices and also hedge against a reconstituted Soviet or other great-power threat that could arise over a period of yean. It would consist of a dedicated defense base for the procurement of major platforms and a mobilizable civilian production capacity. The dedicated base would be sized to meet only peacetime defense procurement needs, yet flexible enough to form the core around which the larger wartimemobilization base could be regenerated...
Página 365 - CALCULATION OF PAST R&D COSTS HAVE OFTEN NOT INCLUDED THE MONEY THAT FIRMS HAVE SPENT FROM PROFITS. THE EXPLICIT FUNDING REQUIREMENTS MAY INCREASE THE COST OF R&D.
Página 6 - Many basic industries of importance to defense production have declined, threatening the responsiveness of our industrial base. Left unchecked, such erosion could rob the United States of industrial capabilities critical to national security. An efficient, responsive, and technically innovative industrial base is necessary to develop and produce high-quality, affordable defense systems and to maintain our ability to deter aggression or defeat potential adversaries.
Página 234 - What can we do to go from where we are to where we want to be? POSITIONING THE CASE FOR MARS Positioning a product, service, or issue means determining what 'share of mind" you want it to have in the awareness of different publics.
Página 339 - Depaitmi of Education study concludes that America's once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is endangered by competitors throughout the world. A fundamental finding was that the educational systems were not graduating a workforce with the sophisticated skills and technical knowledge needed by American industry to retain global economic leadership and competitiveness.
Página 117 - ... ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS, AFL-CIO Mr. DANIELS. Mr. Davis, do you have a prepared statement? Mr. DAVIS. Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman, and I will submit it to the reporter and ask that it be made a part of the record. Mr. DANIELS. Without objection, your prepared statement will be inserted at this point in the record and I would appreciate it if you would summarize your views in anticipation that a quorum call may require our adjourning. (The following statement was submitted for the record:) Mr....