The U.S. Machine Tool Industry and the Defense Industrial Base
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1983
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780309077682; 9781280261190
Table of contents: title: COVER; title: COPYRIGHT; title: PREFACE; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: 1 INTRODUCTION; title: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM; title: THE U.S. MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY: THE PROBLEMS OF MATURITY; title: THE DOD INTEREST; title: APPROACH TO THE STUDY; title: ORGANIZATION OF STUDY; title: NOTES; title: 2 AN INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURED; title: OVERVIEW OF CHANGES; title: THE TRADITIONAL U.S. MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY; title: TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS SHAPING THE INDUSTRY; title: Computers and Automation; title: New Materials and Methods; title: ECONOMIC TRENDS; title: Globalization of Machine Tool Competition; title: NEW ENTRANTS AND NEW COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES; title: RESPONSE OF MACHINE TOOL BUILDERS TO THESE CHANGES; title: Economic Pressures; title: Coping With Change; title: Specific Steps; title: Requests for Federal Assistance; title: CONCLUSIONS; title: NOTES; title: 3 THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, PRIME CONTRACTORS, AND THE MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY: RELATIONSHIPS THAT AFFECT; title: SIZE OF DOD AND CONTRACTOR MARKETS; title: DOD PROCUREMENT: INCENTIVES AND DISINCENTIVES; title: MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS; title: ManTech Programs; title: TechMod Programs; title: MACHINE TOOL SUPPLIERS' PERSPECTIVE ON THE DEFENSE PROCUREMENT PROCESS; title: Dealing With the Government; title: An Important Counter-Example; title: PERCEPTIONS OF THE U.S. MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY: THE PRIME CONTRACTORS' VIEWPOINT; title: In-House Machine Tool Capability and Performance; title: Contracting Procedures; title: Technology Flow; title: Experience With Foreign Suppliers; title: DOMESTIC LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE PURCHASE OF U.S. PRODUCED MACHINE TOOLS; title: "Buy America" and Other Preferences; title: Machine Tool Stockpiles; title: INDUSTRIAL BASE RESPONSIVENESS; title: CONCLUSIONS; title: NOTES; title: 4 PROBLEM SYNTHESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; title: PROBLEM SYNTHESIS; title: What is Happening to the U.S. Machine Tool Industry?; title: How Did the Industry Get This Way?; title: What are DOD's interests Regarding the U.S. Machine Tool Industry?; title: What are DOD's Policy Options, Levers, and Constraints?; title: RECOMMENDATIONS; title: Recommendations for DOD; title: Recommendations for Agencies with Which DOD Has Frequent Contact; title: Recommendations for Machine Tool Industry; title: CONCLUSION; title: APPENDICES; title: APPENDIX A HIGHLIGHTS OF PHASE I STUDY; title: Defense Needs and the Machine Tool Industry; title: APPENDIX B POLICIES OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS; title: JAPAN; title: FRANCE; title: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (FRG); title: NOTES TO APPENDIX B.