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UNINA9910958620103321 |
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Titolo |
Managing materials for a twenty-first century military / / Committee on Assessing the Need for a Defense Stockpile, National Materials Advisory Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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9786611300166 |
9780309177924 |
0309177928 |
9781281300164 |
1281300160 |
9780309112581 |
0309112583 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 189 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Strategic materials - Military aspects |
Strategic materials - Government policy - United States - Evaluation |
Strategic materials - United States - Management |
Raw materials - United States - Management |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Overview: Observations, Conclusions, and Recommendations""; ""2 Historical Context""; ""3 Raw Materials and Minerals Supply""; ""4 Changing Defense Planning and Defense Materials Needs""; ""5 Managing Today's Materials Supply Chains""; ""6 Current Operational Practices of the National Defense Stockpile""; ""Appendixes""; ""A: Stockpile History""; ""B: U.S. Defense Strategy""; ""C: Defining Twenty-first Century Defense Materials Needs""; ""D: Rare Earth Elements""; ""E: Other U.S. Stockpiles""; ""F: Case Study: Beryllium"" ""G: Committee Membership""; ""H: Acronyms"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Since 1939, the U.S. government, using the National Defense Stockpile |
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(NDS), has been stockpiling critical strategic materials for national defense. The economic and national security environments, however, have changed significantly from the time the NDS was created. Current threats are more varied, production and processing of key materials is more globally dispersed, the global competition for raw materials is increasing, the U.S. military is more dependent on civilian industry, and industry depends far more on just-in-time inventory control. To help determine the significance of these changes for the strategic materials stockpile, the Department of Defense asked the NRC to assess the continuing need for and value of the NDS. This report begins with the historical context of the NDS. It then presents a discussion of raw-materials and minerals supply, an examination of changing defense planning and materials needs, an analysis of modern tools used to manage materials supply chains, and an assessment of current operational practices of the NDS. |
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