Air Force Images of Research and Development and Their Reflections in Organizational Structure and Management Policies
Author: Donald Ralph Baucom
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 506
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Author: Donald Ralph Baucom
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald R. Baucom
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 253
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James T. Controvich
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780810850101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography lists published and printed unit histories for the United States Air Force and Its Antecedents, including Air Divisions, Wings, Groups, Squadrons, Aviation Engineers, and the Women's Army Corps.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1428990275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen B. Johnson
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roy F. Houchin II
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1134230273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential new account of some of the most valuable research and development in international military history. Roy F. Houchin II shows how the roots of US Air Force hypersonic research and development are grounded in Army Air Force General Henry H. 'Hap' Arnold's identification of the need for advanced airpower weapon systems to meet the anticipated postwar enemy threat. The technology for a smooth transition to military spaceflight seemed within reach when Bell Aircraft Corporation executive Walter Dornberger (the former commander of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket research) made an unsolicited proposal to William E. Lamar (the chief of Wright Aeronautical Development Center's New Development Office of the Bomber Aircraft Division at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH) for a hypersonic boost-glide weapon system. Visionaries like Arnold, Dornberger, and Lamar believed a hypersonic boost-glider would represent the ultimate expression of the US Air Force's doctrine by performing strategic bombardment and reconnaissance more successfully any other type of vehicle. As this aspiration reached maturity in Dyna-Soar, the service's leadership never gave up their beliefs. This book shows how the struggle to persuade the secretary of defence and his advisors, who did not share the Air Force's vision for a military spaceplane, illustrates the ebb and flow of an advanced technology program and its powerful legacy within American society.
Author: Gorn, Michael H.
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 206
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas C. Lassman
Publisher: Department of the Army
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA broad historical overview of changing institutional patterns of technological innovation with the Defense Department's major weapons laboratories.
Author: Stephen B. Johnson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-04-29
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0801876184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Skillfully interweaving technical details and fascinating personalities, Johnson tells the history of systems management in the U.S. and Europe.” —Howard McCurdy, author of Space and the American Imagination Winner of the Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical Society How does one go about organizing something as complicated as a strategic-missile or space-exploration program? Stephen B. Johnson here explores the answer—systems management—in a groundbreaking study that involves Air Force planners, scientists, technical specialists, and, eventually, bureaucrats. Taking a comparative approach, Johnson focuses on the theory, or intellectual history, of “systems engineering” as such, its origins in the Air Force’s Cold War ICBM efforts, and its migration to not only NASA but the European Space Agency. Exploring the history and politics of aerospace development and weapons procurement, Johnson examines how scientists and engineers created the systems management process to coordinate large-scale technology development, and how managers and military officers gained control of that process. “Those funding the race demanded results,” Johnson explains. “In response, development organizations created what few expected and what even fewer wanted—a bureaucracy for innovation. To begin to understand this apparent contradiction in terms, we must first understand the exacting nature of space technologies and the concerns of those who create them.” “Johnson’s in-depth, nuts-and-bolts manual sheds much light on a seldom studied secret of our recent space history.” —Space Review “A book for general readers interested in business and management issues in the space program.” —Choice