Research Catalog

Title

Adapting to flexible response, 1960-1968 / Walter S. Poole.

Author

Poole, Walter S., 1943-

Publication

Washington, DC : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

United States. Department of Defense. Historical Office, issuing body.

Description

xvi, 467 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

History of acquisition in the Department of Defense ; v. 2

Uniform Title

History of acquisition in the Department of Defense ; v. 2.

Subject

• United States. Department of Defense > History > 20th century
• United States Department of Defense > history
• Weapons systems > United States > History > 20th century
• Nuclear weapons > United States > History > 20th century
• Cold War
• Defense contracts > United States > History > 20th century
• Weapons > history
• Nuclear Weapons > history
• Warfare and Armed Conflicts > history
• United States > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Strategic setting: striving for flexibility -- Emphasizing nuclear retaliation -- Strategy changes quickly, capability slowly -- Reworking nuclear requirements -- Graduated pressure: theory and practice -- The industrial base: pushing "state of the art" -- The political and economic environment -- Bidding for control: Secretary McNamara and the services -- Creating the PPBS and FYDP -- Changing the locus of decisionmaking: 1961-1964 -- "Systems analysis" becomes a fighting term: 1965-1968 -- Defining the acquisition cycle -- Reworking logistic guidance -- Contributions of the Defense Supply Agency and the Defense Contract Administration -- Services -- The shortcomings of fixed-price contracting -- Contracting in the 1950s -- Profit opportunity: spur to efficiency or to deception? -- The turn to fixed-price incentive contracts -- Striving for "truth" in cost estimates -- Challenging the rationale for incentives -- Streamlining procedures -- The Hershey Pricing Conference --
• Dissolving the link between incentives and profits -- Total package procurement -- Program management and the program manager -- Innovation: coping with "unanticipated unknowns" -- Concurrency -- Alternatives: prototyping or component growth -- Case study: the Mark II avionics system -- Rating government versus private contributions -- Forecast and hindsight -- The Army re-equips itself -- The Army Materiel Command -- Choosing a rifle: M-14 versus AR-15 -- Shillelaghs, Sheridans, and M60s -- Failure of the MBT70 project -- Tow: a success story -- Forward air defense: hits and misses -- Sergeant: the perils of co-contracting -- The helicopter comes of age -- The Air Force shifts emphasis -- General Schriever and systems command -- Paradoxes of the aerospace industry -- Reorienting tactical aircraft -- No new manned bomber -- Long-range airlift: C-141 shines, C-5a stumbles -- The F-111: a series of obstacles -- A complex design concept -- General dynamics and the prime contract --
• Teething troubles -- The travails of "Icarus" -- The Navy scuttles its version -- A disappointing balance sheet -- Managing strategic missile systems -- Polaris and Poseidon -- Minuteman I, II, and III -- Missile defense meets insuperable obstacles -- Warships and their weapons -- From bureaus to systems commands -- The shipbuilding industry -- Nuclear attack submarines -- Travails of the Mark 48 torpedo -- Nuclear-powered surface ships -- Destroyers and escorts: decisions delayed -- Troubles of the "3 Ts" -- Space ventures: a mixed record -- Mission rivalry: DoD and NASA -- Cancellations: Dyna-soar and the manned orbiting laboratory -- Workhorse: Titan III -- Vietnam: proving ground and graveyard -- Managing munitions shortages -- The advent of "smart" bombs -- Rolling thunder as a wizard war -- The M-16: controversy continues -- Army helicopters: en masse -- Marine helicopters: unique and common -- Building an infiltration barrier -- Conclusion --
• Appendix: Key acquisition officials, 1959-1969 -- List of abbreviations.

LCCN

^^2013017876

OCLC

842330108

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library