The Ordnance Department

The Ordnance Department

Author: Lida Mayo

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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Provides a description of how America's munitions reached U.S. and Allied troops and how Ordnance soldiers stored, maintained, supplied, and salvaged materiel in the major theaters of operations.


Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense

Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense

Author: Thomas C. Lassman

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1437914977

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Contents: (1) Intro.: The Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation; (2) R&D in the Army: Changing Institutional Patterns of Army R& D after World War II; The Content of R&D in the Arsenal System; The Decline of the Arsenal System; (3) R&D in the Navy: Bureau of Ordnance; Bureau of Aeronautics; Bureau of Ships; From Bureaus and Laboratories to System Commands and Research Centers; (4) R&D in the Air Force: From Army Air Corps to U.S. Air Force, 1907-1950; Growth and Diversification: The Air Research and Development Command, 1950-1961; Reintegration: R&D in the Air Force Systems Command, 1961-1991; Coming Full Circle: Patterns of Organizational Change in Air Force R&D Since 1945; (5) Review and Retrospect. Biblio.