SMDC Moves into Space Planning for Army Transformation

Abstract

Planning is such an important part of any process. It''s no fun and nobody likes to do it, particularly when it involves looking far into that nebulous, intangible place called "the future." In organizations as widely diverse as the Department of Defense and the U.S. Army, without planning you are destined to follow the courses of the loudest or most influential voices. In an environment driven by the resources of manpower, money and time, volume and influence carry loud voices. And those voices become screams the closer to program implementation and the wider the political and industrial support they have enlisted. All too often, it seems that a new piece of equipment hits the field and we look back and ask ourselves, "How did that happen? What was the requirement?"

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA525656

Entities

People

  • Robert Clarke

Organizations

  • United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Executives
  • Information Operations
  • Mission Area Analysis
  • National Security
  • Operations Research
  • Security
  • Systems Analysis
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space