A description of the internal planning process of the major U.S. military airframe builders
By: by John D. Finnerty
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Management; Defense contracts; Aircraft industry; Aerospace industries
Description: This paper describes the long term and short term planning processes of the nine major military airframe builders in the United States. The first part of the paper characterizes the nine firms and explores the risks and rewards inherent in their dependence on their major customer, the United States Government. The remainder of the paper provides a description of the internal planning processes that is based on personal interviews of the planning executives of the nine firms. The environmental forecast, which precedes the formulation of the long term and short term plans, and the corporate review process, in which actual performance is measured against the short term plan, are also discussed. (Author)
Notes: Title from cover.

"February 1977"--Cover.

"NPS-54FI77051"--Cover.

"Partial report for October 1976 - December 1976."

DTIC Identifiers: Aerospace industry, monopsony, WUWR70044, PE61152N.

Author(s) key words: Military airframe builder, aerospace industry, monopsony, risk, diversification, planning, objectives, strategic plan, long term plan, operating plan, short term plan.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-144)

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1977.

kmc/kmc 9/21/09.