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Sources of Weapon Systems Innovation in the Department of Defense: Role of Research and Development 1945-2000: the Role of Research and Development 1945-2000 (Center of Military History Publication)
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2008, United States Army, Center of Military History
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United States Army, Center of Military History
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2008
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English
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Very good. x, [2], 153, [3] pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Thomas Lassman joined the Space History Department in June 2008 as curator of the National Air and Space Museum's Cold War rocket and missile collection. During the previous three years, he worked for the U.S. Army Center of Military History, where he completed a monograph on the history of weapon systems research and development in the Defense Department's in-house laboratories from 1945 to 2000. Dr. Lassman has also worked as an historian at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics in College Park, Maryland and at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. Dr. Lassman holds a BA degree in history from Washington University (1991) and MA and Ph.D. degrees in the history of science from the Johns Hopkins University (1996, 2000). His research focuses on the institutional history of American science and technology during the Cold War; history of American industrial research and development (R&D) prior to 1940; and the history of weapon systems acquisition in the Department of Defense after 1945. This monograph is a broad historical overview of changing institutional patterns of technological innovation within the Defense Department's major weapons laboratories. It examines many types of research and development including fundamental studies of the physics of metals in the Army's primary manufacturing arsenals, rocket and missile development at the Naval Ordnance Test Station in California, testing and evaluation of aircraft engines and rocket motors at the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee, and a host of other R&D activities at laboratories located throughout the United States. How the military services accommodated changes in management policy and balanced the corresponding growth of R&D outsourcing at the expense of maintaining a viable in-house capability is the central theme of this book. While this monograph only scratches the surface of such an ambitious endeavor, it does attempt to provide a general interpretive framework that historians will hopefully find useful as a guide to further research.
