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Implementing a New Defense Manufacturing Strategy: An Illustrative Model
Pages 37-42

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... approach to acquisition of manufactured goods will require substantial effort at all levels of the hierarchy within defense production and acquisition organizations, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the military services, the contractor and supplier base, and the Congress. Although the specific mechanisms for effective cooperation among these major constituencies are impossible to define and will evolve over time, the committee offers the following model to illustrate in specific terms how such cooperation in an effective change process might occur.
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From page 38...
... What improvement in cost, quality, time, and technical performance over the next decade should a new manufacturing strategy achieve? Appropriate goals might be 30 percent lower cost, 30 percent shorter lead time, and an 80 percent reduction of defects without sacrificing technical progress.
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From page 39...
... · In addition to studying management of successful corporate training programs, cadre members should attend management and manufacturing training courses, such as the Motorola Manufacturing Institute and other corporate training programs, to understand the education process and the kinds of expertise that the new culture demands.
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From page 40...
... "Real" communication will take place through actual change, but that will not happen quickly, so major communication programs in the beginning can lead to more cynicism rather than build conviction. A strong message of senior-level commitment would include: · Direct involvement of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition.
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From page 41...
... · A legal task team proposing amendments to non-controversial laws to simplify reporting and remove difficult and irksome requirements. A second legal team would be examining the more fundamental balance among oversight, financial control, equal employment opportunity, waste, fraud, and abuse.
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... There would be reasonable understanding among half of those about how change would occur during the succeeding several years. · However, the normal conflicts between Congress, the White House, and DoD would still exist and would be far from resolved.
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