Response Strategies to the Cost Escalation of Defence Equipment

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Published in: European Defense Agency website, February 2017

Posted on RAND.org on March 15, 2017

by Lucia Retter, Erik Silfversten, Dan Jenkins

The European Defence Agency (EDA) commissioned RAND Europe to examine response strategies and identify effective approaches adopted by national ministries of defence, defence procurement agencies and a few civil sector industries to minimise the impact of escalating costs over successive generations of defence equipment.

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