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Author: Ethan B. Kapstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
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Contributors from government, industry, and academia document the extent and impact of reducing the military in the US, Europe, and Russia, and suggest a variety of approaches by which governments might be able soften the economic blow. Among the topics are planning the defense industrial base, relations between Congress and the Defense Department after the Cold War, political struggles over defense policy, conversion to peacetime production, and acquisition policy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Ethan B. Kapstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
Contributors from government, industry, and academia document the extent and impact of reducing the military in the US, Europe, and Russia, and suggest a variety of approaches by which governments might be able soften the economic blow. Among the topics are planning the defense industrial base, relations between Congress and the Defense Department after the Cold War, political struggles over defense policy, conversion to peacetime production, and acquisition policy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Jacques S. Gansler Publisher: MIT Press (MA) ISBN: 9780262071666 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 300
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This text examines the need to convert the defence industry from an inefficient and non-competitive part of the US economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. The author defines the challenges, especially the influence of old-line defence interests and presents examples of restructuring. Gansler discusses growing foreign involvement, lessons of prior industrial conversions, the best structure for the next century, current barriers to integration, a three-part transformation strategy, the role of technological leadership, and the critical workforce. He concludes by outlining sixteen specific actions for achieving civil/military integration.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Changes in the military threats to the United States have radically altered the assumptions underpinning our defense policy, leading to a reexamination of the required size and mix of military forces. The size of military forces had been predicated on a NATO scenario based on the combined threat from the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. However, the collapse of this threat allows the United States to maintain a smaller military force. Downsizing our military forces began in PY92 and is scheduled to continue through at least FY99. This report presents analysis, conducted at the beginning of this drawdown, evaluating alternative strategies for achieving personnel reductions, including alternative voluntary separation offers and their utility in achieving the required reductions in personnel end- strength. Specifically, it first addresses the question of what part of the reductions should come from lowered accession levels and what part from increased separations of personnel currently in the service. It then addresses the process of how to structure separation offers to get both the number and type of desired departures as cost effectively as possible. It identifies the criteria that any separation plan should meet, evaluates proposed plans in terms of the cost to the government and perceived worth to the individual, and develops an analytic framework that the services could use as a tool to structure separation offers. The framework provides a way to estimate acceptance rates for various plans and to identify specific groups to achieve those rates.
Author: David Waltz Grissmer Publisher: RAND Corporation ISBN: 9780833023155 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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This report documents RAND's research effort on one aspect of the personnel drawdown--how to structure voluntary separation offers to service members to efficiently meet force-reduction objectives. This research was carried out before development of the voluntary separation programs initiated between 1992 and 1994 and was instrumental in shaping them. The authors address the question of what part of the reductions should come from lowered accession levels and what part from increased separations of personnel currently in the service. They identify the criteria that any separation plan should meet and develop a methodology for estimating the acceptance rate of voluntary separation offers. They apply this methodology to evaluate a range of such offers and then address the process of how to structure separation offers to get both the number and type of desired departures as cost effectively as possible. Finally they address questions concerning the financing of such offers by estimating the savings from reduced retirement outlays.
Author: DIANE Publishing Company Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 0788132237 Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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Provides information on the compensation provided to the five highest paid executives and employees of each of the top 10 defense contractors and the amounts executives realized through the exercise of stock options for 1989 through 1994; the nature and extent of restructuring efforts due to defense downsizing; and the assistance provided to workers being separated as a result of defense downsizing. Charts and tables.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309056764 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 188
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The commercial aviation industry is a major part of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and a key contributor to the nation's economy. The industry is facing the effects of a reduced role by the military as a source of high-quality trained personnel, particularly pilots and mechanics. At the same time, it is facing the challenges of a changing American workforce. This book is a study of the civilian training and education programs needed to satisfy the work-force requirements of the commercial aviation industry in the year 2000 and beyond, with particular emphasis on issues related to access to aviation careers by women and minorities.
Author: Chris Edwards Publisher: Cato Institute ISBN: 1933995513 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 263
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The federal government is running huge budget deficits, spending too much, and heading toward a financial crisis. Federal spending soared under President George W. Bush, and the costs of programs for the elderly are set to balloon in coming years. Hurricane Katrina has made the federal budget situation even more desperate. In Downsizing the Federal Government Cato Institute budget expert Chris Edwards provides policymakers with solutions to the growing federal budget mess. Edwards identifies more than 100 federal programs that should be terminated, transferred to the states, or privatized in order to balance the budget and save hundreds of billions of dollars. Edwards proposes a balanced reform package of cuts to entitlements, domestic programs, and excess defense spending. He argues that these cuts would not only eliminate the deficit, but also strengthen the economy, enlarge personal freedom, and leave a positive fiscal legacy for the next generation. Downsizing the Federal Government discusses the systematic causes of wasteful spending, and it overflows with examples of federal programs that are obsolete and mismanaged. The book examines the budget process and shows how policymakers act contrary to the interests of average Americans by favoring special interests.
Author: Ethan B. Kapstein
Author: Ethan B. Kapstein
Author: Jacques S. Gansler
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Author: Paul L. Jones
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Author: David Waltz Grissmer
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Author: National Research Council
Author: Chris Edwards