Breaking the Mold Forging a Common Defense Manufacturing Vision (1993) / Chapter Skim
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Defense Manufacturing on the Defensive
Defense Manufacturing on the Defensive
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(Appendix A contains a description of the economic, technological, and geopolitical forces that are redefining the environment for defense manufacturing.) Shrinking defense budgets, the pace of technological advance, and pervasive changes in commercial production practices threaten to limit severely DoD's ability to acquire next-generation weapon systems with the cost, quality, and timeliness necessary to meet future defense requirements.
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By cutting procurement quantities and stretching out deliveries, this growing conflict between available resources and costs also limits DoD's ability to benefit from improvements in commercial manufacturing products and processes. TECHNOLOGY In the last 10 to 15 years, global industrial competition has replaced global military competition as the impetus for technological advance in areas such as electronics, materials, information technologies, and telecommunications.
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emerging conflicts in the current defense manufacturing enterprise, serious consideration must be given to fundamentally changing how DoD procures weapon systems. The way to ease the defense manufacturing dilemma is not through marginal adjustments to traditional ways of doing defense business but as demonstrated by the commercial firms that have led the way through a deliberate break with the past.
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There is constant change, rather than constant purpose, in strategies to improve the defense manufacturing base, DoD, and the Congress, with single issues gaining and losing prominence in short times. those who will invest the time, effort, and energy, and fight the jurisdictional battles for improvement during the early days of the "change process." The pressure against change is strong.
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Lamm, approximately 20 percent of firms surveyed refuse DoD business because of burdensome paperwork, government bidding methods, more attractive commercial ventures, and government attitudes. See, David V
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