Eisenhower versus the Spin-off Story: Did the Rise of the Military–Industrial Complex Hurt or Help America's Commercial Aircraft Industry?

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-95
Author(s):  
Eugene Gholz
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Commercial Markets ◽  
American Research ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Benefits And Costs

In his Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned that the military-industrial complex (MIC) threatened to dominate American research, crowding out commercial innovation. Ironically, a number of analysts point to spin-off benefits of the 1950s' military effort as a crucial source of American high-tech competitiveness, often citing the key example of the relationship between military jet aircraft and the Boeing's 707. But the huge military investment in jet aviation had both benefits and costs for the commercial industry. This article compares the development of the Boeing 707 and its relationship to military projects like the KC-135 tanker to the contemporary development of commercial jet aircraft by other companies that were also integral parts of the military-industrial complex (MIC), including Douglas Aircraft and its commercial DC-8 and Convair and its commercial 880 and 990. Using evidence from archives, interviews with retired company executives, contemporary trade press, and academic studies, the article concludes that membership in the MIC did not offer firms a leg up in commercial markets. President Eisenhower was generally right about the costs of the military effort, but military spending remained low enough to allow commercial industry to thrive in parallel to the defense industry.

The aspects of the innovation of the military-industrial complex and its significance for the national security of Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Irina Orlova ◽  
Artem Sukharev ◽  
Maria Sukhareva ◽  
Mikhail Deikun
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
World Market ◽  
Modern World ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Military

The main objective of the article is to substantiate a systematic approach to the introduction of all types of innovations in the development of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in the modern world it is especially important to ensure the national security of the country and the defense industry plays a crucial role in this. At the same time, one cannot but note the importance of the defense industry in the production of high-tech civilian products and dual-use products, which enhances the country's competitiveness in the world market. In addition, the relevance of the topic is due to the presence of rather serious problems in the Russian defense industry, which require immediate resolution. The article uses the methodology of structurally functional analysis, the institutional approach and the method of comparative assessments. The authors conclude that technological innovation alone will not be able to achieve strategic results for ensuring national security, only in conjunction with organizational, product, social and marketing innovations, the domestic defense industry is able to solve its tasks.

scholarly journals The Role of a Region in the Implementation of Innovative Projects for Non-Defence High-Technology Production

2020 ◽  
pp. 477-486
Author(s):  
Iurii V. Erygin ◽  
Elena V. Borisova
Keyword(s):  
Innovation System ◽  
High Technology ◽  
International Markets ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Innovation Infrastructure ◽  
The Military

The article discusses the problems of involving the innovative potential of enterprises of the military-industrial complex in the implementation of innovative projects for the non-defence high-technology production, as well as determining the role and place of the regional innovation infrastructure in their implementation. The aim of the study is to justify the role of a region in the implementation of innovative projects for the non-defence high-technology production, to determine features and formulate requirements for the development of the regional innovation infrastructure that provides support for these innovative projects based on the interaction of the regional innovation system enterprises with the military-industrial complex and infrastructure facilities at the national and international levels. As a result of the study, the authors highlighted the most important areas of interaction between the enterprises of the military-industrial complex and the region’s innovative infrastructure facilities (raising funds, promoting high-tech civilian products to national and international markets, etc.) and formulated the requirements for its formation. The results of the study can be used in managing the innovative development of the regions where high-tech enterprises of the militaryindustrial complex are located

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ford
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Military Innovation ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Alliance Partners ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Military ◽  
Back Office ◽  
The Relationship

There are many ways of thinking about guns. Guns can be seen through the lens of gender or identity, as a matter of personal rights or from the perspective of the engineer interested in design features and standardization. This book considers firearms from the perspective of military innovation and seeks to map socio-technical change from the battlefield to the back-office: from soldiers and engineers to scientists and bureaucrats, from alliance partners to industry. In the process this book describes the distribution of power within the military industrial complex and asks us to reflect on the relationship between technology and strategy and democratic control over weapon selection.

Innovative production of dual-use goods and technologies by high-tech enterprises of the military-industrial complex

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.V. Ponomareva ◽  
◽  
S.A. Khachaturyan ◽  
V.S. Kuruzova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Dual Use ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
The Military

В монографии рассмотрены отдельные инновационные аспекты производства товаров и технологий двойного назначения высокотехнологичными предприятиями оборонно-промышленного комплекса России. Акселерометры и гироскопы, в настоящий период времени, используются как при производстве продукции военного назначения, так и для производства роторно-управляемых систем в крупных компаниях нефтегазового комплекса. Основной целью производства товаров и технологий двойного назначения является конкурентоспособность отечественных высокотехнологичных предприятий ОПК и импортозамещение готовых продуктов для нефтегазового комплекса. Научные выводы авторов монографии подкреплены математическими моделями и испытаниями проведёнными при помощи современных программных продуктов, которые помогают отечественным учёным решать сложные математические и технические задачи. Исследования, представленные в монографии, будут полезны аспирантам, магистрантам, преподавателям и научным сотрудникам.

An Organizational Perspective on the Military-Industrial Complex

1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Cuff
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
World War ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Military ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship

Is there a “military-industrial complex” in the United States? What is the relationship between business, government, and the military with its needs for vast quantities of goods and services? How has organization for war and defense changed since the demands of World War I first made such questions important? How much do we know about what actually happened between World War I and Vietnam to change the relationship between private and public organizations? Professor Cuff discusses the complexities involved in trying to answer such historical questions, and prescribes a professional historian's regimen for future work on this subject.

scholarly journals The Surveillant Simulation of War: Entertainment and Surveillance in the 21st Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-522
Author(s):  
Matthew Cousineau
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Surveillance Studies ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Sports Broadcasting ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

This paper pulls together some strands in Surveillance Studies to make a case for the analytical advantages of a future direction. Conceptualizing surveillance as entertainment helps sensitize Surveillance Studies to emerging patterns of surveillance in the relationship between the military-industrial complex and entertainment. I describe four examples of this, which include both video game simulations of surveillance as well as actual military surveillance technologies and practices. Army developed video games and simulators designed to recruit, along with unmanned aerial vehicles and sports broadcasting technologies provide contemporary examples of the blurring boundaries between civilians and soldiers, war and entertainment, and work and play. Focusing on surveillance as entertainment, I suggest, furnishes us with several analytical advantages that help make sense of the complex global surveillance realities of the 21st century.  

scholarly journals Mechanism of implementation of public-private partnership at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 412-419
Author(s):  
I. V. Kazmina ◽  
E. A. Titova
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
The State ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
The Military

The article deals with the features of organizational and economic interaction between the state and business in the defense industry. Using the results of research, the mechanism of implementation of public-private partnership at the enterprises of the military-industrial complex in the creation of joint ventures for the production of new models of weapons and military equipment, which is based on a set of organizational structures and specific forms, tools, tools and methods of management, through which the public-private partnership in the military-industrial complex. The main reasons for the need to implement public-private partnership in the military-industrial complex are identified. These reasons will contribute to the withdrawal of the state from the organizational and technological method of management of the military-industrial complex and the introduction of appropriate mechanisms for the implementation of public-private partnership in order to develop and create new high-tech military equipment of the new generation. The article proves that public-private partnership is one of the tools of effective defense policy. At the same time, in the period of budget deficit in the Russian Federation, such a mechanism becomes an outlet for solving important tasks in the field of defense. Having received a certain distribution in the military-industrial complex, public-private partnership has already established itself as one of the effective ways to attract business to the implementation of projects in the field of military-industrial complex..

Canadian Entrepreneurs and the Preservation of the Capitalist Peace in the North Atlantic Triangle in the Civil War Era, 1861–1871

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-545
Author(s):  
ANDREW D. SMITH ◽  
LAURENCE B. MUSSIO
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
The North ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Civil War Era ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

In their 2013 bookReimagining Business History, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson called on business historians to reassess militarization and the “two-way exchanges” between the military and the private sector. The call is timely. The extensive business-historical scholarship on the relationship between companies and war sensibly focuses on companies that profited from their involvement in the military-industrial complex.1The business-historical literature is virtually silent, however, on the role of business in preventing wars from starting in the first place. In other words, business historians have missed a productive opportunity to engage with capitalist peace theory (CPT), an increasingly important theory in the discipline of international relations (IR). Many IR scholars now argue that the mutual economic interdependence characteristic of global capitalism reduces the likelihood of war. Their research suggests that while extensive cross-border economic linkages do not preclude the possibility of war, the creation of a transnational community of economic interests tends,ceteris paribus, to reduce the frequency, duration, and intensity of warfare.2

scholarly journals DIRECTIONS OF THE TRANSITION OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE TO THE "GREEN" MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2(64)) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
L.E. Kupinets ◽  
T.S. Obniavko
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Military Industrial Complex ◽  
Green Model ◽  
The Military

The place of Ukraine's territory and its military-economic potential in the accumulation in the European region of a large number of troops, naval forces, military equipment and armaments, powerful enterprises, institutions and organizations of defense purposes, which have a negative impact on the environment are determined; �ontaminated and continues to be contaminated the main components of the environment: soil, surface and groundwater, atmosphere air. The basic principles of internal policy in the field of national security and defense are indicated. The transition of the military-industrial complex and the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the "green" model of development is substantiated. The role of the military-industrial complex in the environmental pollution is proved. It is shown that the domestic defense industry has some scientific, technical and production capabilities to create competitive armament and military equipment, but significantly behind in the implementation of environmental standards and ecology-oriented technology and is not a leader in the new global transition to the "green" economy and the "green" growth. It is proved that in the course of reforming the military-industrial complex, its reconversion, the destruction of outdated ammunition, wastes of military production and military products, and in the event of non-compliance with environmental requirements, should expect the deterioration of the ecological state of the territory. Considered the main innovational directions, which provide an increase of the degree of ecologization of the military economy and form a technological "green" jump in the specified sphere of activity: introduction of alternative types of energy into the activities of defense enterprises and army units; creation of weapons based on "green" technologies, using of "smart" clothing. Substantiated the prospects of further researches, which consists in defining the goals, objectives, principles, directions and approaches of ecologization of the military-industrial complex and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assessment and classification of eco-friendly technologies, development of high-tech competitive industries, rational re-engineering of the military-industrial complex, development of mechanisms and tools for the ecologically oriented development and transition to the "green" technological model.

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