Design-Build-Operate: Technologically Superior U.S. Military Forces Through a New Approach to Maintaining U.S. Industry's Aerospace Technology Leadership
Abstract
To develop strategies for maintaining the design-build-operate teams in our defense industrial base, and the transfer of their technology ideas into warfighting systems, a working panel of government and industry research and development (R&D) and systems acquisition executives was formed (Working Panel: Technical Strategy for the Industrial Base) during the Chief Engineer's/ Manufacturing Day with Industry held at the U.S. Air Force's Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, on 16-17 April 1992. Strategies were developed during August 1992 through March 1993. The 'Design-Build-Operate' strategy would fundamentally restructure the defense research, development, test and evaluation (RDT and E) business. The strategy focuses on the RDT and E phase of system acquisition and provides initiatives to (1) shorten the time and decrease the cost to design and field new and improved systems, (2) exercise company/government design-build-operate teams, (3) integrate manufacturing risk reduction early, (4) emphasize continuous technology insertion, and (5) create long-term development plans.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- ADA271167
Entities
Organizations
- Aeronautical Systems Center