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来源类型 | Dissertations |
规范类型 | 其他 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.7249/RGSD378 |
来源ID | RGSD-378 |
Balancing Immediate and Long-Term Defense Investments | |
Jonathan P. Wong | |
发表日期 | 2016 |
出版年 | 2016 |
页码 | 179 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | The US Department of Defense's (DoD) process for allocating resources for acquiring weapons systems is optimized for long-term investments, guided by the DoD's forecast of future threats, conflicts, adversaries, and possible US responses to them. This dissertation examines how the DoD acquisition bureaucracy responds to unforeseen conflicts and adversaries by making immediate procurement investments. This dissertation uses the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to examine the DoD's bureaucratic response. The dissertation analyzes the DoD's policies for making immediate investments by comparing them to a framework for organizational flexibility. Next, the dissertation examines the DoD's ability to make the best use of those policies by using examining changes in the DoD's procurement budget during the wars. This is done using a framework for categorizing the DoD's procurement investments based on their immediacy. Lastly, the dissertation examines six individual immediate investment cases to understand how DoD policies, bureaucratic behavior, and technological capacity interact to meet these immediate operational demands. This dissertation finds that the DoD was developed a surprisingly nimble and risk-tolerant process for making most immediate investments. The DoD did require extensive senior leader intervention to make investments that were previously judged to be unnecessary. The dissertation also found that the DoD's process relied on the entrepreneurship and organizational savvy of individual program officers to identify funding sources and enlist stakeholder support. This research concludes by recommending marginal changes to DoD policy, including granting greater flexibility to DoD components to spend previously allocated resources, allowing more bottom-up input to the immediate investment process, and anticipating the need for single-purpose task forces to provide senior leader intervention in contentious cases. |
目录 | Table of Contents
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主题 | Military Acquisition and Procurement ; Military Equipment ; United States Department of Defense |
URL | https://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD378.html |
来源智库 | RAND Corporation (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/111994 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jonathan P. Wong. Balancing Immediate and Long-Term Defense Investments. 2016. |
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