Author Archives: Daniel Gouré, Ph.D.
PBL: A Success Story
Issue Brief
Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) is the purchase of support as an integrated, affordable, performance package designed to optimize system readiness and meet performance goals through long-term support arrangements with clear lines of authority. PBL may be applied to defense [Read More...]
PBL: A Success Story
Issue Brief
Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) is the purchase of support as an integrated, affordable, performance package designed to optimize system readiness and meet performance goals through long-term support arrangements with clear lines of authority. PBL may be applied to defense [Read More...]
Performance-Based Agreements: The Future of Defense Weapons Systems Support
Issue Brief
The United States military faces two related crises. First is the tightening of defense budgets, certainly as the U.S. presence in Iraq winds down, but increasingly likely regardless. Second are the growing costs of sustaining the force. Taken [Read More...]
Performance-Based Agreements: The Future of Defense Weapons Systems Support
Issue Brief
The United States military faces two related crises. First is the tightening of defense budgets, certainly as the U.S. presence in Iraq winds down, but increasingly likely regardless. Second are the growing costs of sustaining the force. Taken [Read More...]
Want Real Missile Defense Soon? Put KEI to Sea
Issue Brief
More than six years into the Bush Administration and what do we have to show for its investment of billions of dollars in missile defense? Precious little is the answer. To defend the nation we are relying on [Read More...]
Getting To A 21st Century Supply Chain
Research Study
The Department of Defense (DoD) directs the largest and most complex supply chain in the world. DoD spends at least $150 billion a year on goods and services and their delivery to end users. The Defense Logistic Agency, [Read More...]
Getting To A 21st Century Supply Chain
Research Study
The Department of Defense (DoD) directs the largest and most complex supply chain in the world. DoD spends at least $150 billion a year on goods and services and their delivery to end users. The Defense Logistic Agency, [Read More...]
National Guard: Command, Control and Confusion?
Issue Brief
The geniuses who created the post-World War Two U.S. military command system knew that there were two essential truths about leading a large and complex military. The first was that there must be unity of command. The second [Read More...]
Contractors On The Battlefield
Research Study
Civilian contractors have a larger presence on today’s battlefields than ever before. Over a decade ago, as the U.S. military began downsizing, it began transferring many of its support functions to private sector contractors. From the provision of [Read More...]
The National Guard Needs More Stryker Brigades
Issue Brief
President Bush’s decision to surge U.S. forces into Iraq will require the activation of additional National Guard brigades in order to preserve a rotation base. No longer is the Guard a strategic reserve, one meant to be mobilized [Read More...]