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Appendix C: Background and History
Appendix C: Background and History
Pages 63-67
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Through the 1950s, the military became a major driver of technological change in the American economy, spawning industries like commercial aeronautics, semiconductors, and communications satellites (NRC, 1993~. The Cold War era saw the development of a permanent defense industrial base and defense acquisition practices distinctly different from commercial practice.
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The first of these trends was reduced budgets for the acquisition of new defense systems, resulting largely from the end of the Cold War. Simultaneously, the capabilities of commercial equipment and its application for military use have
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and the General Accounting Office (GAO, 1998~. The DSB study, which focused on semiconductor devices, noted that "despite overwhelming verbal support, movement towards greater use of commercial products and practices has been slow." The transmittal letter included in that report recommended the use of open systems architecture, which would allow increased use of commercial hardware and software and the corresponding industrial base while demonstrating the ability to use commercial subsystems and nongovernment standards as well as their benefits.
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The 1999 NRC study Defense Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond: Meeting the Changing Needs of National Defense focused on leveraging advances in commercial manufacturing in its recommendations. The study identified the challenges of using commercial manufacturing capacity, including the use of and design for commercial processes, the incorporation of COTS parts and subsystems into military equipment, reforms in acquisition procedures to accommodate commercial practices, and incentives for commercial industry to manufacture defense parts.
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It emphasizes that what needs to be done is well documented, and that the focus should be on implementation methods. The present NRC study took a similar approach, focusing on implementation.
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