NSP IP 15 Defense Acquisition Process How strategy and politics impact the process.

B-52 story: designed in a hotel room...30 pg contract; Proliferation of malficense. Is this the best solution for a world power that is committed to balancing a global system? Does the system reach a capacity/size within democratic, open market conditions beyond which it is self-correcting by design and sheer magnitude? Players Enemies/Threats - Soviets/Cold War - action/reaction model of arms races; - problem of incomplete/incorrect intelligence assessment driving - False idea of capabilities-based model; but what's the alternative? You always end up at threat-based approach because of constrained resources; - War plans are planner based...planners will craft an enemy that will support the interests of the services;

Allies and Foreign Industry - ITAR - post 9/11... International Trade and Arms Restrictions...has created significant impacts to British systems acquired from the US;

OSD - Positive role--if services don't innovate, we will step in to help you; Services - Learned from 40s-50s Airpower hearings, revolt of the admirals, ....develop ways to integrate and cooperate - if the services compete, someone will eventually step in (OSD) to provide oversight...if you divide, you will be conquered - AirSea Battle may turn out to be the same thing...will the services cooperate across systems? It's hopeful. - Competition vs collaboration: trade off of resources for capability and threat of oversight which then allows inefficiency; - Interests: identity; organizational continuity;

Congress - Budget - HASC/SASC - authorizers: power balancer--spread the wealth of having a say; - SAC-D/HAC-D - appropriators: - Ex: tanker deal originally started in appropriations committee which raised the initial concern with Senator McCain;

- Interests: constituency, campaign contributions, security of the nation, constitutional authority, personal interest, national interests, ... Duncan Hunter: constitution says Congress shall equip the military, not the Pentagon;

COCOMs

Joint Staff

Industry - Jobs - Intellectual capital -FMS - you can measure value of long term contracts and sales; sales have dropped from 60 to 30 percent of the market; smaller rates of production and high labor costs drive high production costs; - globalization - is a company American or Brazilian or ?? BAE and EADS are almost wholly owned offshore... - don't forget shipyards and land vehicles..environmental restrictions and labor costs;

Independent Oversight - GAO -

How do you build a system that checks and balances all of the parties involved?