Download or read book Conversion of the Defense Industry in the Former Soviet Union written by Thierry Malleret and published by Institute for East-West Studies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Soviet Defence Industry written by Julian Cooper and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the changes in the Soviet defence industry since perestroika, and how they are complicated by economic uncertainty and the new political assertiveness of many republics. Discusses the political role of the military/industrial complex and possible business opportunities for the West.

Download or read book Cooperative Threat Reduction written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the DoD program to help convert defense industries in the former Soviet Union to commercial enterprises. DoD had undertaken 20 conversion projects, and the Defense Enterprise Fund (DEF) had completed agreements to undertake 4 projects. This report assesses: the effect of defense conversion efforts on the elimination or reduction of military activities and production capabilities in former Soviet weapons of mass destruction enterprises; the status of defense conversion projects and funding; and conformance of the DEFs management practices to its grant agreement and the Fund's operating expenses. Includes update to Sep. Ô97.

Download or read book The Anatomy of Russian Defense Conversion written by Vlad E. Genin (general editor) and published by Vega Press (CA). This book was released on 2001 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California."

Download or read book Defense Conversion written by Jacques S. Gansler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-07-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Gansler takes a hard look at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part of the U.S. economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. Author of two widely-read books on the defense industry, Jacques Gansler takes a hard look at the need to convert the industry from an inefficient and noncompetitive part of the U.S. economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. He defines the challenges, especially the influence of old-line defense interests, and presents examples of restructuring. Gansler discusses growing foreign involvement, lessons of prior industrial conversions, the best structure for the next century, current barriers to integration, a three-part transformation strategy, the role of technological leadership, and the critical workforce. He concludes by outlining sixteen specific actions for achieving civil/military integration. In Gansler's view, the end of the Cold War with the former Soviet Union represents a permanent downturn rather than a cyclical decline in the defense budget. He argues that this critical transition period requires a restructuring of the defense acquisitions process to achieve a balance between economic concerns and national security, while maintaining a force size and equipment modernization capable of deterring future conflicts. Gansler argues that for the defense industry to survive and thrive, the government must make its acquisitions process more flexible, specifically by lowering barriers to integration. This includes, among other things, rethinking the production specifications for new equipment and changing bids for contracts from a cost basis to a price basis. Gansler point out that by making primarily political and procedural changes (rather than legislative ones), companies will be able to produce technology for both civilian and military markets, instead of exclusively for one or the other as has been the norm. This dual-use approach would save the government billions of dollars annually and would enable the military to diversify by utilizing state-of-the-art.

Download or read book Military R D after the Cold War written by Philip Gummett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries establish defence industries for various reasons. Chief among these are usually a concern with national security, and a desire to be as independent as possible in the supply of the armaments which they believe they need. But defence industries are different from most other industries. Their customer is governments. Their product is intended to safeguard the most vital interests of the state. The effectiveness of these products (in the real, rather than the experimental sense) is not normally tested at the time of purchase. If, or when, it is tested, many other factors (such as the quality of political and military leadership) enter into the equation, so complicating judgments about the quality of the armaments, and about the reliability of the promises made by the manufacturers. All of these features make the defence sector an unusually political industrial sector. This has been true in both the command economies of the former Soviet Union and its satellites, and in the market or mixed economies of the west. In both cases, to speak only a little over-generally, the defence sector has been particularly privileged and particularly protected from the usual economic vicissitudes. In both cases, too, its centrality to the perceived vital interests of the state has given it an unusual degree of political access and support.

Download or read book The Soviet Defence Industry written by Julian Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conversion of the Defense Industry in Russia and Eastern Europe written by Joseph Di Chiaro and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pivotal Role of the State in Russian Defense Conversion written by Lori Ann Coakley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cooperative Threat Reduction Status of Defense Conversion Efforts in the Former Soviet Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOD's program to convert former Soviet Union defense industries to commercial enterprises is part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which DOD has supported since 1992 to reduce the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat. The program's priority objectives include helping to (1) destroy nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons; (2) transport and store weapons that are to be destroyed; and (3) prevent weapon proliferation. In addition to these objectives, the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993 authorized DOD to establish a program to help demilitarize former Soviet Union defense industries and convert military technologies and capabilities to commercial activities. The Soviet Union had an enormous defense industrial complex that reportedly consisted of 2,000 to 4,000 production enterprises, research and development facilities, and research institutes and employed between 9 million and 14 million people. Although the main objective of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act focused on WMD reduction, the act did not specifically require the defense conversion program to target WMD capability. Nonetheless, DOD targeted WMD industries for conversion with the goals of stimulating foreign and domestic investment in the former Soviet Union and demonstrating that partnerships between private U.S. companies and former Soviet enterprises can succeed.

Download or read book Defense and the Soviet Economy written by Charles Wolf and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Note examines the defense sector's role in the former Soviet economy. It argues that despite the changes that have occurred in Europe since 1989, it is still useful to understand the size and composition of the military economy of the former Soviet Union. Accurate assessment of military forces, spending, and technology continues to be important because the Russian military establishment has inherited most of these elements, and Russia remains a significant factor in the international balance of power. Also, the military sector of the former Soviet Union plays a significant role in that economy. This prominence is a contributing factor in the laggard performance of the republics' economies. If this trend is to be reversed, it is important to move toward a smaller defense sector whose resource allocations are acquired through a more transparent and accountable process than in the past. Finally, the military's access to scarce resources is a significant reflection of its political role, as well as a contributor to it. The status of the defense sector indicates the relative domestic political strength of the heretofore powerful interests associated with it. This Note is divided into six parts: (1) methods for estimating the size of the Soviet economy and its performance; (2) effects of Perestroika on the defense sector; (3) Soviet allocative choices as between the military and other sectors; (4) effects of foreign trade on the Soviet defense sector; (5) monetary aspects of the contemporary Soviet economy; and (6) conversion of Soviet defense industry.

Download or read book A Farewell to Arms written by Kevin P. O'Prey and published by Twentieth Century Foundation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kevin P. O'Prey defines conversion in the broadest sense as reallocation of human, physical, and financial resources to civilian pursuits. The author makes clear that too often a more limited conception, such as transforming factories or production lines, leads to faulty policymaking and practical frustration.

Download or read book After the Cold War written by Michael P. Claudon and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1988, President Gorbachev announced at the United Nations that the Soviet Union would unilaterally cut 500,000 troops from its military forces and begin conversion of its military-industrial complex, which dominates its economy. Since that formal declaration four years ago, the breakup of the East Bloc and the Soviet Union has dramatically changed and improved East-West relations. But the initial optimism at the "end" of the Cold War has now been replaced with the realization that building new economic, political, and military relationships will test the good will, patience, and creativity of both sides. Nowhere are the issues thornier and the potential rewards greater than in defense conversion in Russia. The pervasiveness of their military-industrial complex dwarfs that of the United States: one of five workers is employed by the defense industry; defense enterprises are the sole employers in half their communities; many consumer goods are produced only by defense industries; 80 percent of all research and development was devoted to defense; arms sales in the 1980s mainly to Third World countries were Russia's largest source of hard currency. In short, defense budgets have bankrupted Russia and distorted investment and production for decades. Russia's fledgling free-market economic reforms cannot succeed without the conversion and privatization of much of this military-industrial complex. But to date, there has been little progress, and Russia's conversion programs are long on intent and short on specifics. After the Cold War - Russian-American Defense Conversion for Economic Renewal contains papers presented at the Geonomics Institute fall 1992 seminar on defense conversion and examines some of the questions and policy choices that both countries face in defense conversion and economic restructuring. Where, for example, will a destitute Russian government find the billions of dollars that conversion will require? A smaller, stable military-industrial complex and a vibrant market economy that provides new jobs producing consumer goods is clearly in the interest of the West. How, for example, can Western public and private institutions best assist Russia in creating a legal and business infrastructure conducive to the development of a market economy and foreign investment? In adopting the Bread Loaf Charter, seminar participants proposed a series of recommendations to promote U.S.-Russian cooperation and to accelerate conversion. After the Cold War makes clear that defense conversion in Russia will require strong domestic leadership but also cooperation, technical help, and especially leadership from the United States.

Download or read book The Former Soviet Union in Transition 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book USSR Military Expenditure and Defense Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Soviet Defense Industry s Conversion Program written by Kazuyuki Hamada and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conversion of the Post Soviet Defense Industry written by Ksenija R. Gončar and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: