Creating and Sustaining an Effective Government-Defense Industry Partnership

Abstract

U.S. history is replete with enterprises that succeeded due to effective partnerships. Today, the nations most complex partnership is the joint pursuit of the worlds best combat capabilities by the U.S. Department of Defense and the defense industry. These two complex enterprises, on behalf of the nation and its allies, are actively developing, producing, fielding, and sustaining combat systems for joint warfighters that are second to none. Does this shared interaction for man effective partnership? In this article, the authors analyze private industrys perception of the challenges/opportunities that exist in the shared relationships with their government counterparts. Their findings pinpoint five focus areas, with corresponding actions, which can improve the partnership between government and the defense industry.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2011
Accession Number
AD1016149

Entities

People

  • Allen Green
  • Scott Fouse
  • Steve Mills

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Defense Industry
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Governments
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.