A Description of the Internal Planning Processes of the Major U.S. Military Airframe Builders.

Abstract

This paper describes the long term and short term planning processes of the nine major military airframe builders in the United States. The first part of the paper characterizes the nine firms and explores the risks and rewards inherent in their dependence on their major customer, the United States Government. The remainder of the paper provides a description of the internal planning processes that is based on personal interviews of the planning executives of the nine firms. The environmental forecast, which precedes the formulation of the long term and short term plans, and the corporate review process, in which actual performance is measured against the short term plan, are also discussed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041148

Entities

People

  • John D. Finnerty

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Military Aircraft
  • Military Research
  • National Governments
  • Transport Aircraft
  • United States
  • United States Government

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  • Economics
  • Theoretical Analysis.