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Arms and innovation : entrepreneurship and alliances in the twenty-first-century defense industry /
With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in Arms and Innovation that small firms have a number of advantages relative to their bigger competitors. Such fir...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 The Fast and the Many The Theoretical Background on Small Firms and Alliances in the Arms Industry; 2 Dream Teams and Brilliant Eyes The SBIRS Low Program, Northrop Grumman's Acquisition of TRW, and the Implications for the Structure of the Military Space Industry; 3 Unmanned, Unafraid, and Underscoped Success in Four Wars withthe Predator Reconnaissance-Strike Drone; 4 Five Bombs in One Hole, and Cheaply The Joint Direct Attack Munition and the Mass Production of Precision Destruction; 5 Dili and the Pirates HMAS Jervis Bay and the Military Potential of Aluminum Catamarans.