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An Acquisition Strategy, Process, and Organization for Innovative Systems - 2000

Acquisition and Competition Strategy Options for the DD(X): The U.S. Navy’s 21st Century Destroyer - 2006

Advanced SEAL Delivery System: Perspectives and Options - 2001

Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base - 1997

Aircraft Turbine Engine Monitoring Experience: An Overview and Lessons Learned from Selected Case Studies - 1980

Aircraft Turbine Engine Monitoring Experience: Implications for the F100 Engine Diagnostic System Program - 1979

Aircraft turbine engine monitoring systems: overview and lessons learned from six case studies - 1979

Assessing Competitive Strategies for the Joint Strike Fighter: Opportunities and Options - 2001

Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Motion for C-17 Flight Simulators - 1986

Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Motion for C-17 Flight Simulators: Technical Appendixes - 1986

Building Ships On Time: How Can the Defence Procurement Agency More Accurately Monitor Progress? - 2005

CVX Propulsion System Decision: Industrial Base Implications of Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Options - 1998

Commercial Shipbuilding Techniques: Can They Be Applied to Warship Production in the United Kingdom? - 2005

Comparing Project Investment Costs: A Methodology and Baseline for the Refining Industry - 1986

Competition and Innovation in the U.S. Fixed-Wing Military Aircraft Industry - 2003

Cost and Schedule Implications of Multinational Coproduction - 1984

Development and Production Cost Estimating Relationships for Aircraft Turbine Engines - 1982

Development, acquisition, and operating and support cost methods for aircraft turbine engines - 1978

Differences Between Military and Commercial Shipbuilding: Implications for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence - 2005

Diversifying the Customer Base for Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom - 2005

Dual-Source Procurement in the Tomahawk Program - 1990

Formulating Strategies for International Collaboration in Developing and Producing Defense Systems - 1997

A Framework for Precision Conventional Strike in Post-Cold War Military Strategy - 1996

Future V/STOL Airplanes: Guidelines and Techniques for Acquisition Program Analysis and Evaluation - Executive Summary - 1980

Future combat environments: implications for the engine development process - 1984

Gaining New Military Capability: An Experiment in Concept Development - 1998

Getting the Most Out of Littoral Combat Ships - 2008

The Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Acquisition Process: A Summary of Phase I Experience - 1997

The Impact of Tanker Support on Selection of Long-Range Combat Aircraft Size - 1982

Improving Operational Suitability Through Better Requirements and Testing - 1986

Injecting Competition into the Joint Strike Fighter Program: Can a Winner-Take-All Environment Become More Competitive? - 2001

Issues Associated with Second-Source Procurement Decisions - 1990

Leveraging America’s Aircraft Carrier Capabilities: Exploring New Combat and Noncombat Roles and Missions for the U.S. Carrier Fleet - 2006

Littoral Combat Ships: Relating Performance to Mission Package Inventories, Homeports, and Installation Sites - 2007

A Method for Estimating the Cost of Aircraft Structural Modification - 1981

Modernizing the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Fleet: Accelerating CVN 21 Production Versus Mid-Life Refueling - 2005

Monitoring the Progress of Shipbuilding Programmes: How Can the Defence Procurement Agency More Accurately Monitor Progress? - 2005

Multinational Coproduction of Military Aerospace Systems - 1981

Naval Research, Development, and Technology: Deciding What to Buy and How to Buy It - 1995

New Combat and Noncombat Roles for U.S. Aircraft Carriers - 2006

Options for Funding Aircraft Carriers - 2002

Options for Reducing Costs in the United Kingdom’s Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF) Programme - 2005

Outsourcing and Outfitting Practices: Implications for the Ministry of Defence Shipbuilding Programmes - 2005

The Predator ACTD: A Case Study for Transition Planning to the Formal Acquisition Process - 1997

Priority-Setting and Strategic Sourcing in the Naval Research, Development, and Technology Infrastructure - 1995

Reconstituting a Production Capability: Past Experience, Restart Criteria and Suggested Policies - 1993

Reducing the Cost of Aircraft Carrier Acquisition - 2005

Reform in Defense Acquisition Policies: A Different View - 1983

Refueling and Complex Overhaul of the USS Nimitz (CVN 68): Lessons for the Future - 2002

Regression Diagnostics in Practice: Experiences from Modeling Jet Engine Costs - 1983

The Relative Cost Factor: A Method of Comparing Petroleum Refinery Investment - 1987

The Royal Navy's New-Generation Type 45 Destroyer: Acquisition Options and Implications - 2002

Shaping and Integrating the Next Military: Organization Options for Defense Acquisition and Technology - 1996

Three Programs and Ten Criteria: Evaluating and Improving Acquisition Program Management and Oversight Processes Within the Department of Defense - 1996

A Tool for Evaluating Force Modernization Options - 1998

The U.S. Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base: Force Structure, Cost, Schedule, and Technology Issues for CVN77 - 1998

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Deepwater Force Modernization Plan: Can It Be Accelerated? Will It Meet Changing Security Needs? - 2004

The U.S. Submarine Production Base: An Analysis of Cost, Schedule, and Risk for Selected Force Structures - 1994

The U.S. Submarine Production Base: An Analysis of Cost, Schedule, and Risk for Selected Force Structures: Executive Summary - 1994

The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base, Volume 1: Sustaining Design and Production Resources - 2005

The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base, Volume 2: Ministry of Defence Roles and Required Technical Resources - 2005

The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Submarine Industrial Base, Volume 3: Options for Initial Fuelling - 2005

Using the Steel-Vessel Material-Cost Index to Mitigate Shipbuilder Risk - 2008

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