Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weapons systems
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Weapons Cost
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weapons systems
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Gun Violence
Author: Philip J. CookPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190285966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms of medical costs and lost productivity. Here, economists Philip Cook and Jens Ludwig widen the lens, developing a framework to calculate the full costs borne by Americans in a society where both gun violence and its ever-present threat mandate responses that touch every aspect of our lives. All of us, no matter where we reside or how we live, share the costs of gun violence. Whether waiting in line to pass through airport security or paying taxes for the protection of public officials; whether buying a transparent book bag for our children to meet their school's post-Columbine regulations or subsidizing an urban trauma center, the steps we take are many and the expenditures enormous. Cook and Ludwig reveal that investments in prevention, avoidance, and harm reduction, both public and private, constitute a far greater share of the gun-violence burden than previously recognized. They also employ extensive survey data to measure the subjective costs of living in a society where there is risk of being shot or losing a loved one or neighbor to gunfire. At the same time, they demonstrate that the problem of gun violence is not intractable. Their review of the available evidence suggests that there are both additional gun regulations and targeted law enforcement measures that will help. This urgently needed book documents for the first time how gun violence diminishes the quality of life for everyone in America. In doing so, it will move the debate over gun violence past symbolic politics to a direct engagement with the costs and benefits of policies that hold promise for reducing gun violence and may even pay for themselves.
Weapons Cost : Analysis of Major Weapon Systems Cost and Quantity Changes
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weapons systems
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Cost Growth in Weapon Systems
Author: Neil M. SingerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Atomic Audit
Author: Stephen I. SchwartzPublisher: Brookings Inst Press
ISBN: 9780815777748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Based on four years of extensive research, Atomic Audit is the first book to document the comprehensive costs of U.S. nuclear weapons, assembling for the first time anywhere the actual and estimated expenditures for the program since its creation in 1940. The authors provide a unique perspective on U.S. nuclear policy and nuclear weapons, tracking their development from the Manhattan Project of World War II to the present day and assessing each aspect of the program, including research, development, testing, and production; deployment; command, control, communications, and intelligence; and defensive measures. They also examine the costs of dismantling nuclear weapons, the management and disposal of large quantities of toxic and radioactive wastes left over from their production, compensation for persons harmed by nuclear weapons activities, nuclear secrecy, and the economic implications of nuclear deterrence. Atomic Audit concludes with recommendations for strengthening atomic accountability and fostering greater public understanding of nuclear weapons programs and policies.
Weapons acquisition better use of limited DOD acquisition funding would reduce costs : report to the Secretary of Defense
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428979484
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Effects of Weapons Procurement Stretch-Outs on Costs and Schedules
Author: R. William ThomasPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422319680
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Despite significant efforts to reform the acquisition process, problems with buying weapons systems continue. This report, prepared in 1987 by the Congressional Budget Office, at the request of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, focuses specifically on the pace of weapons production. Stretching out the process of acquiring new weapons not only adds to program costs but also limits efforts to equip U.S. forces with modern weapons. The report examines alternative procurement policies that would permit higher production rates while recognizing overall fiscal constraints on the defense budget. The report makes no recommendations. Charts & tables.
Inaccuracy of Department of Defense Weapons Acquisition Cost Estimates
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defense industries
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Blue Book of Gun Values
Author: S. P. FjestadPublisher:
ISBN: 9781886768550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1936
Book Description
The "bible" of the firearms industry for accurate value information and descriptions of rifles, pistols, and shotguns. The industry standard for over 25 years!
New Weapons, Old Politics
Author: Thomas L. McNaugherPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815718703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Americans spend more than $100 billion a year to buy weapons, but no one likes the process that brings these weapons into existence. The problem, McNaugher shows, is that the technical needs of engineers and military planners clash sharply with the political demands of Congress. McNaugher examines weapons procurement since World War II and shows how repeated efforts to improve weapons acquisition have instead increased the harmful intrusion of political pressures into that technical development and procurement process. Today's weapons are more complicated than their predecessors. So are the nation's military forces. The design of new systems and their integration into the force structure demand more care, time, and flexibility. Yet time and flexibility are precisely what political pressures remove from the acquisitions process. In a series of case studies and conceptual discussions, McNaugher tackles concerns at the heart of the debate about acquisition—the slow and heavily bureaucratic approach to development, the preference for ultimate weapons over well-organized and trained forces, and the counterproductive incentives facing the nation's defense firms. He calls for changes that run against the current fashion—less centralization or procurement, less haste in developing new weapons, and greater use of competition as a means of removing the development process from political oversight. Above all, McNaugher shows how the United States tries to buy research and development on the cheap, and how costly this has been. The nation can improve its acquisition process, he concludes, only when it recognizes the need to pay for the full exploration of new technology.
