Environmental Management in Design Lessons from Volvo and Hewlett-Packard for the Department of Defense,

Abstract

A new approach to environmental management is rapidly evolving in a number of large, successful commercial firms. The Department of Defense (DoD) has adopted environmental management policies very similar to those found in these organizations. The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security asked RAND to study how leading commercial firms had implemented their policies and suggest what DoD could do to improve its own implementation departmentwide. This report focuses on best commercial experience relevant to one key policy issue in defense environmental management- designing new weapon systems to have improved military capability and cost-effective environmental profiles over their lifetimes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA358705

Entities

People

  • Frank A. Camm
  • Jeffrey Drezner
  • Susan Resetar

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Complex Systems
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Information Exchange
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of Proposed Air Force Base Actions.
  • Systems Analysis and Design