Reshaping the Armored Combat Vehicle Industrial Base: Improved Private Sector and Depot Integration

Abstract

Two significant events have shaped the current debate over the defense industrial base. The end of the Cold War and the Gulf War. First, our apparent victory in the Cold War signified the end of the threat against which most of our major weapon systems were designed to defeat in an all out conventional or nuclear war. The demise of the threat meant we could reduce the size of our defense budget and shift defense resources into the domestic sector. This is the 'Peace Dividend'. Concurrently, the defense industrial base, and arsenals, would somehow downsize to effectively and efficiently meet existing and future military requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA276929

Entities

People

  • Joseph L. Yakovac

Organizations

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Cold War
  • Combat Vehicles
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Federal Budgets
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Logistics
  • Military Acquisition
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • War Colleges

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  • Strategic Security Studies