Arms and innovation : entrepreneurship and alliances in the twenty-first-century defense industry / James Hasik.

With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in Arms and Innovation that small firms have a number of advantages relative to their bigger competitors. Such fir...

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Main Author: Hasik, James M., 1966-
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Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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505 0 |a 1 The Fast and the Many The Theoretical Background on Small Firms and Alliances in the Arms Industry; 2 Dream Teams and Brilliant Eyes The SBIRS Low Program, Northrop Grumman's Acquisition of TRW, and the Implications for the Structure of the Military Space Industry; 3 Unmanned, Unafraid, and Underscoped Success in Four Wars withthe Predator Reconnaissance-Strike Drone; 4 Five Bombs in One Hole, and Cheaply The Joint Direct Attack Munition and the Mass Production of Precision Destruction; 5 Dili and the Pirates HMAS Jervis Bay and the Military Potential of Aluminum Catamarans. 
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