LEADER 05038nam 22006974a 450 001 9910819751603321 005 20230726233031.0 010 $a0-231-50965-0 024 7 $a10.7312/domb13570 035 $a(CKB)1000000000474424 035 $a(EBL)908412 035 $a(OCoLC)818855919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116477 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12026971 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116477 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10034854 035 $a(PQKB)10363560 035 $a(DE-B1597)458809 035 $a(OCoLC)614995230 035 $a(OCoLC)979953825 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231509657 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908412 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183579 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL666641 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908412 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000474424 100 $a20060315h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBuying military transformation $etechnological innovation and the defense industry /$fPeter Dombrowski, Eugene Gholtz 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2006. 210 4$aŠ2006 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 189 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-322-35359-X 311 $a0-231-13570-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBuying transformation -- Implementing military innovation -- Small ships -- Unmanned aerial vehicles -- Communications -- Systems integration and public-private partnership -- Military innovation and the defense industry. 330 $aIn Buying Military Transformation, Peter Dombrowski and Eugene Gholz analyze the United States military's ongoing effort to capitalize on information technology. New ideas about military doctrine derived from comparisons to Internet Age business practices can be implemented only if the military buys technologically innovative weapons systems. Buying Military Transformation examines how political and military leaders work with the defense industry to develop the small ships, unmanned aerial vehicles, advanced communications equipment, and systems-of-systems integration that will enable the new military format.Dombrowski and Gholz's analysis integrates the political relationship between the defense industry and Congress, the bureaucratic relationship between the firms and the military services, and the technical capabilities of different types of businesses. Many government officials and analysts believe that only entrepreneurial start-up firms or leaders in commercial information technology markets can produce the new, network-oriented military equipment. But Dombrowski and Gholz find that the existing defense industry will be best able to lead military-technology development, even for equipment modeled on the civilian Internet. The U.S. government is already spending billions of dollars each year on its "military transformation" program-money that could be easily misdirected and wasted if policymakers spend it on the wrong projects or work with the wrong firms.In addition to this practical implication, Buying Military Transformation offers key lessons for the theory of "Revolutions in Military Affairs." A series of military analysts have argued that major social and economic changes, like the shift from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age, inherently force related changes in the military. Buying Military Transformation undermines this technologically determinist claim: commercial innovation does not directly determine military innovation; instead, political leadership and military organizations choose the trajectory of defense investment. Militaries should invest in new technology in response to strategic threats and military leaders' professional judgments about the equipment needed to improve military effectiveness. Commercial technological progress by itself does not generate an imperative for military transformation.Clear, cogent, and engaging, Buying Military Transformation is essential reading for journalists, legislators, policymakers, and scholars. 606 $aMilitary art and science$xTechnological innovations$zUnited States 606 $aMilitary art and science$xComputer networks$zUnited States 606 $aDefense industries$zUnited States 606 $aInformation technology$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xArmed Forces$xProcurement 607 $aUnited States$xArmed Forces$xReorganization 615 0$aMilitary art and science$xTechnological innovations 615 0$aMilitary art and science$xComputer networks 615 0$aDefense industries 615 0$aInformation technology 676 $a355.6/2120973 700 $aDombrowski$b Peter J.$f1963-$01165887 701 $aGholz$b Eugene$f1971-$01165888 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819751603321 996 $aBuying military transformation$94024925 997 $aUNINA