The U.S. government spends billions of dollars every year on goods and services from foreign countries. Most of this spending is for military purposes. Over $1 billion a year in overseas defense spending is “strategic,” meaning that it is designed to support both global military operations...

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) promises to liberalize trade between the European Union and the United States. Although the negotiations have so far excluded defense, this essay considers what would happen if a TTIP removed overt restrictions. What barriers would...

Zwischen 1961 und 1974 schlossen die Bundesrepublik und die USA acht Offset-Abkommen. Im Rahmen dieser Abkommen erwarb die Bundesrepublik Rüstungsgüter und US-Staatsanleihen, um die Devisenkosten der in der Bundesrepublik stationierten US-Truppen zu kompensieren. Im übergeordneten Sinne...

The acquisition and procurement of major weapons systems is fraught with difficulties. They tend to be delivered late, over budget and unable to meet requirements. This Element provides an economic analysis of why this happens. Market structure, demand by the military and supply by the arms...

As a country largely free of the corruption that bedevils the defence procurement of many of Australia's Asian neighbours, it is generally assumed that Australia's national security interests, together with value for money, are the paramount criteria for Australia's defence procurement. This is...

Governments have vital missions, such as securing their nation from many internal or external risks/threats. Thus, they prepare themselves against different scenarios. The most common scenario for all countries is “facing attacks from other countries”. However, training for these scenarios...

Public and private organizations are transitioning from buying or selling products to procuring or selling complex, long-term integrated solutions consisting of bun-dles of interrelated products and services (Wise and Baumgartner, 1999; Davies et al., 2007). In response to an increasing demand for...

Wenig ist für Regierungen moderner Demokratien von grösserer Bedeutung, als gegenüber ihren Bürgern Rechenschaft über die von ihnen erbrachten Leistungen abzulegen. Die Nützlichkeit des sogenannten Performance Management ist daher unumstritten. Doch während in einigen Politikbereichen die...

Over the last decade, the defense industry has obtained relevance on Brazilian public policies. Departing from the premise that the success of this process requires not only that the Armed Forces have modern equipment and skilled military to operate them, but also that the country retains the...

The economic and political importance of international defence offsets is increasing and is likely to increase even more in the future. Offsets are currently influenced by the changes in the global defence market, namely the declining US and European defence budgets and the growing military...

Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; PHASE I ; Chapter 1. An Introduction to Offsets ; 1.1 Setting the Scene; 1.2 Why the need for this book?; 1.3 Global Offsets Obligation and Trend; 1.4 Offsets in International Procurement; 1.5 Key research on Offsets; 1.6 Costs and Benefits of...

"This book presents the latest scholarly research on the present state of defense organizations, examining reforms and solutions necessary to overcome current limitations and make vast improvements to their infrastructure, highlighting methodologies and theoretical foundations that promote more...

This volume constitutes the first ever attempt to establish a basis for comparative research on defence procurement regulation. For decades there has been repeated emphasis on the extent to which barriers to trade in Europe and the US prevent a more competitive defence market. Transatlantic...

Introduction : satellites and surveillance capitalism -- "A permanent state of 'Cold War'" : preparing the environment, 1940-1968 -- "Our knowledge is in the holes" : software consulting and the sweat-equity formula, 1968-1977 -- "Innovation in a cold climate" : remote sensing and the government...

This paper considers the impact of the tax treatment of U.S. military contractors. Prior to the early 1980s, taxpayers were permitted to use the completed contract method of accounting to defer taxation of profits earned on long term contracts. Legislation passed in 1982, 1986 and 1987 required...

In a number of observed procurements, the buyer has employed an auction format that allows for a split-award outcome. We focus on settings where the range of uncertainty regarding scale economies is large and, depending on cost realizations, the efficient allocations include split-award outcomes...

In a number of observed procurements, the buyer has employed an auction format that allows for a split-award outcome. We focus on settings where the range of uncertainty regarding scale economies is large and, depending on cost realizations, the efficient allocations include split-award outcomes...

Bei allen langlebigen Investitionsgütern – von Maschinen und Anlagen bis zu Rüstungsgütern – stellt die Sicherstellung der Wirtschaftlichkeit in Anschaffung und Betrieb über längere Nutzungszeiten eine wesentliche Herausforderung dar. Angesichts der angespannten Finanzlage öffentlicher...

There is agreement within industrial organisation economics that an inverted U-shape relationship exists between the level of competition in an industry and the level of innovation in that industry. Thus, when consolidation changes the level of competition in an industry we might expect this to...

This paper considers the impact of the tax treatment of U.S. military contractors. Prior to the early 1980s, taxpayers were permitted to use the completed contract method of accounting to defer taxation of profits earned on long term contracts. Legislation passed in 1982, 1986 and 1987 required...