Conversion of the Defense Industry in the Former Soviet Union
Author: Thierry Malleret
Publisher: Institute for East-West Studies
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 84
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Author: Thierry Malleret
Publisher: Institute for East-West Studies
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacques S. Gansler
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1996-07-25
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780262571166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacques Gansler takes a hard look at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part of the U.S. economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. Author of two widely-read books on the defense industry, Jacques Gansler takes a hard look at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part of the U.S. economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. He defines the challenges, especially the influence of old-line defense interests, and presents examples of restructuring. Gansler discusses growing foreign involvement, lessons of prior industrial conversions, the best structure for the next century, current barriers to integration, a three-part transformation strategy, the role of technological leadership, and the critical workforce. He concludes by outlining sixteen specific actions for achieving civil/military integration. In Gansler's view, the end of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union represents a permanent downturn rather than a cyclical decline in the defense budget. He argues that this critical transition period requires a restructuring of the defense acquisitions process to achieve a balance between economic concerns and national security, while maintaining a force size and equipment modernization capable of deterring future conflicts. Gansler argues that for the defense industry to survive and thrive, the government must make its acquisitions process more flexible, specifically by lowering barriers to integration. This includes, among other things, rethinking the production specifications for new equipment and changing bids for contracts from a cost basis to a price basis. Gansler point out that by making primarily political and procedural changes (rather than legislative ones), companies will be able to produce technology for both civilian and military markets, instead of exclusively for one or the other as has been the norm. This dual-use approach would save the government billions of dollars annually and would enable the military to diversify by utilizing state-of-the-art.
Author: Vlad E. Genin (general editor)
Publisher: Vega Press (CA)
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 936
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California."
Author: Lori Ann Coakley
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Cooper
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780861870790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Cooper
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews the changes in the Soviet defence industry since perestroika, and how they are complicated by economic uncertainty and the new political assertiveness of many republics. Discusses the political role of the military/industrial complex and possible business opportunities for the West.
Author: Charles Wolf
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780833020512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Note examines the defense sector's role in the former Soviet economy. It argues that despite the changes that have occurred in Europe since 1989, it is still useful to understand the size and composition of the military economy of the former Soviet Union. Accurate assessment of military forces, spending, and technology continues to be important because the Russian military establishment has inherited most of these elements, and Russia remains a significant factor in the international balance of power. Also, the military sector of the former Soviet Union plays a significant role in that economy. This prominence is a contributing factor in the laggard performance of the republics' economies. If this trend is to be reversed, it is important to move toward a smaller defense sector whose resource allocations are acquired through a more transparent and accountable process than in the past. Finally, the military's access to scarce resources is a significant reflection of its political role, as well as a contributor to it. The status of the defense sector indicates the relative domestic political strength of the heretofore powerful interests associated with it. This Note is divided into six parts: (1) methods for estimating the size of the Soviet economy and its performance; (2) effects of Perestroika on the defense sector; (3) Soviet allocative choices as between the military and other sectors; (4) effects of foreign trade on the Soviet defense sector; (5) monetary aspects of the contemporary Soviet economy; and (6) conversion of Soviet defense industry.
Author: Joseph Di Chiaro
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Gummett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9400917309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCountries establish defence industries for various reasons. Chief among these are usually a concern with national security, and a desire to be as independent as possible in the supply of the armaments which they believe they need. But defence industries are different from most other industries. Their customer is governments. Their product is intended to safeguard the most vital interests of the state. The effectiveness of these products (in the real, rather than the experimental sense) is not normally tested at the time of purchase. If, or when, it is tested, many other factors (such as the quality of political and military leadership) enter into the equation, so complicating judgments about the quality of the armaments, and about the reliability of the promises made by the manufacturers. All of these features make the defence sector an unusually political industrial sector. This has been true in both the command economies of the former Soviet Union and its satellites, and in the market or mixed economies of the west. In both cases, to speak only a little over-generally, the defence sector has been particularly privileged and particularly protected from the usual economic vicissitudes. In both cases, too, its centrality to the perceived vital interests of the state has given it an unusual degree of political access and support.
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 800
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