Innovative management in the DARPA high altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicle program : phase II experience /

The U.S. military's development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been hampered by cost overruns, schedule slippage, and disappointing operational results. The High Altitude Endurance UAV (HAE UAV) joint program, initiated under the direction of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc...

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Main Author: Drezner, Jeffrey A.
Corporate Authors: United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Other Authors: Sommer, Geoffrey, 1957-, Leonard, Robert S.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, ©1999.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=20498
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Summary:The U.S. military's development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been hampered by cost overruns, schedule slippage, and disappointing operational results. The High Altitude Endurance UAV (HAE UAV) joint program, initiated under the direction of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), incorporates several innovative elements in its acquisition strategy that depart radically from traditional acquisition approaches. The program's development phase for the Global Hawk and DarkStar air vehicles is analyzed in this research. The HAE UAV program has experienced problems that are typical of newly implemented methods, but it has produced significant benefits, and provides lessons that could improve a wide variety of future acquisition processes.
Item Description:"Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency."
"National Defense Research Institute."
Includes two fold-out tables in back of book.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 141 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0585243506
9780585243504
0833027174
9780833027177