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Author Dombrowski, Peter J., 1963- author.

Title Buying military transformation : technological innovation and the defense industry / Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholtz.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 189 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Buying transformation -- Implementing military innovation -- Small ships -- Unmanned aerial vehicles -- Communications -- Systems integration and public-private partnership -- Military innovation and the defense industry.
Summary In Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration t.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Military art and science -- Technological innovations.
United States.
Military art and science -- Computer networks -- United States.
Military art and science.
Computer networks.
Defense industries -- United States.
Defense industries.
Information technology -- United States.
Information technology.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Procurement.
Armed Forces.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Reorganization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gholz, Eugene, 1971- author.
Other Form: Print version: Dombrowski, Peter J., 1963- Buying military transformation. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 023113570X (DLC) 2006009067 (OCoLC)64897811
ISBN 9780231509657 (electronic book)
0231509650 (electronic book)
023113570X (clothbound book ; alkaline paper)
9780231135702 (hardback)
Music No. EB00639438 Recorded Books