• DocumentCode
    965542
  • Title

    What´s wrong with weapons acquisitions?

  • Author

    Charette, Robert N.

  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    11/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    33
  • Lastpage
    39
  • Abstract
    The paper gives an overview of a problem in weapons acquisition in the U.S. army. The paper focuses on problem in the proposed aerial common sensor aircraft (ACS). U.S.Army desperately needed the ACS to replace its Guardrails, a fleet of small, piloted reconnaissance aircraft that first began flying in the mid-1970s.
  • Keywords
    customer satisfaction; defence industry; military aircraft; military avionics; product development; U.S. army; aerial common sensor aircraft; reconnaissance aircraft; weapons acquisitions; Military aircraft; Reconnaissance; Weapons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2008.4659382
  • Filename
    4659382
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=965542