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Author Dombrowski, Peter J., 1963- author

Title Buying military transformation : technological innovation and the defense industry / Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholtz
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 189 pages) : illustrations
Contents Buying transformation -- Implementing military innovation -- Small ships -- Unmanned aerial vehicles -- Communications -- Systems integration and public-private partnership -- Military innovation and the defense industry
Summary In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States
Military art and science -- Computer networks -- United States
Defense industries -- United States
Information technology -- United States
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
HISTORY -- Military -- General.
Armed Forces -- Procurement
Armed Forces -- Reorganization
Defense industries
Information technology
Military art and science -- Technological innovations
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Procurement. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139879
United States -- Armed Forces -- Reorganization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006824
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Gholz, Eugene, 1971- author
LC no. 2006009067
ISBN 9780231509657
0231509650