Military transformation and the defense industry after next
Subtitle: the defense industrial implications of network-centric warfare
By: Peter J. Dombrowski, Eugene Gholz, Andrew L. Ross.
Contributors: Gholz, Eugene, 1971-; Ross, Andrew L.; Center for Naval Warfare Studies (U.S.)
Series: Newport papers -- 18.; Newport paper -- no. 18.
Publisher: Naval War College Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Newport, R.I
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: United States. -- Navy -- Procurement; Industrial mobilization -- United States; Defense industries -- United States; United States -- Armed Forces -- Reorganization
Other titles: Defense industrial implications of network-centric warfare.
Description: "This study employs network-centric warfare, a Navy transformation vision that is being adopted increasingly in the joint world as a vehicle for exploring the defense industrial implications of military transformation. We focus on three defense industrial sectors: shipbuilding, unmanned vehicles, and systems integration. The transformation to NCW will require both sustaining and disruptive innovation that is, innovation that improves performance measured by existing standards and innovation that defines new quality metrics for defense systems. The dominant type of innovation needed to support transformation varies across industrial sectors; some sectors face more sustaining than disruptive innovation, while some sectors will need more disruptive than sustaining innovation as they supply systems for the "Navy after Next."
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