Growing the Space Industrial Base: Policy Pitfalls and Prospects

by Robert Lyle Butterworth

Book Overview

The Defense Department has long hoped that its needs for space products and services could be supplied by an industrial base that is sustained by commercial sales. That day has not yet arrived, despite years of targeted purchases, investments, and acquisition reform. The beacons of the past decade's policy competition and technology investment cannot bring it to pass. A more promising approach is found in a strategic outlook on research, development,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1286861047
• ISBN13: 9781286861042
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"