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Peter J. Mantle, a former U.S. Navy program manager and Pentagon
insider, has written this book to help decision makers sort out the
costs and technical merits of competing missile defense
technologies now in development or under research. Officials in the
various missile defense communities tend to make claims of missile
defense performance and technical risks using community-specific
terms and units of measure that make it difficult to compare one
system to another. Mantle unravels this trend by translating
competing measures into a common standard, and common treatment. He
explores the history of missile defense and standardizes the
confusing world of missile-defense terminology. He devotes a
chapter to defining life-cycle costs, trends in budgets, and the
actual costs of the subsystems and components of land, sea, air,
and space systems. The book is targeted not just to executive
decision makers, but also anyone in the missile-defense decision
chain, from Pentagon procurement officers to members of Congress to
engineering managers in industry and academia. The book is
organized into chapters that discuss the specific criteria decision
makers should use when evaluating missile-defense
hardware--including both technical factors (performance, cost,
schedule, and risk) as well as programmatic and political factors.
Perhaps most importantly, the book concludes with chapters
describing the techniques and perspectives decision makers should
rely on to unemotionally and fairly evaluate missile-defense
systems and technologies.
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