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Affordability has become a major concern to the Defense Department and to the Army in particular. A whole new generation of weapons systems was started on the drawing boards in the early 1970’s, and we are just now in the process of transitioning them to Procurement and Production. As we are transitioning these new systems to production we are also experiencing substantial cost growths.
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Michel, F.J. (1985). Affordability Through Technology: Bridging the Gap. In: Bruggeman, G., Weiss, V. (eds) Innovations in Materials Processing. Sagamore Army Materials Research Conference Proceedings, vol 30. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2411-9_1
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