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European law --- Defense contracts --- Government purchasing --- Contrats de la défense --- Marchés publics --- Law and legislation --- Droit --- 355 EUR --- 874.1 Regelgeving en controle --- 875 Defensiegerelateerde industrie --- 876 Veiligheidspolitiek --- Contrats de la défense --- Marchés publics --- European Union countries --- Military contracts --- War contracts --- Public contracts --- Private military companies --- Research and development contracts, Government

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Covers issues related to strategy, organisation and processes. This book focuses on the need to change the culture. Riding on the back of New Labour is a commitment within the high political echelon of the MoD to make this change happen. It suggests that probably the greatest single challenge is to ensure that this commitment is maintained.

Contract law -- Great Britain. --- Defense contracts -- England. --- Great Britain. Ministry of Defence -- Procurement. --- Contract law --- Defense contracts --- Great Britain. --- Procurement. --- Military contracts --- War contracts --- Public contracts --- Private military companies --- Research and development contracts, Government --- Agreements --- Contracts --- Contractual limitations --- Limitations, Contractual --- Commercial law --- Legal instruments --- Obligations (Law) --- Juristic acts --- Liberty of contract --- Third parties (Law) --- Law and legislation --- MOD (Government department)

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Complex Contracting draws on core social science concepts to provide wide-ranging practical advice on how best to manage complex acquisitions. Using a strong analytical framework, the authors assess contract management practices, suggesting strategies for improvement and ways to avoid the pitfalls of managing contracts for large and sophisticated projects. An in-depth analysis of the US Coast Guard's Deepwater program is included to illustrate ways to respond to real-world contracting challenges. This high-profile and controversial case consisted of a projected 25-year, 24 billion contract through which the US Coast Guard would buy a system of new boats, aircraft, communications, and control architecture to replace its aging fleet. The authors explore the reasons why this program, launched with such promise, turned out so poorly, and apply the lessons learned to similarly complex contracting scenarios. This engaging and accessible book has broad applicability and will appeal to policymakers, practitioners, scholars and students.

Defense contracts --- Military contracts --- War contracts --- Public contracts --- Private military companies --- Research and development contracts, Government --- Evaluation. --- United States. --- CG (United States. Coast Guard) --- Coast Guard (U.S.) --- Ḥaras al-Sawāḥil al-Amrīkī --- U.S. Coast Guard --- USCG --- Procurement --- Management --- Business, Economy and Management --- Business Management

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855.2 Private actoren --- Defense contracts --- Defense industries --- Security, International --- Technology --- War --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Collective security --- International security --- Armaments industries --- Arms sales --- Military sales --- Military supplies industry --- Munitions --- Sale of military equipment --- Military contracts --- War contracts --- Economic aspects --- Technological innovations --- Military aspects --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- International relations --- Disarmament --- International organization --- Peace --- Industries --- Arms transfers --- Public contracts --- Private military companies --- Research and development contracts, Government

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"Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait of the genius who invented an astonishing way of describing our complex universe from the inside. Everett's mathematical model (called the "universal wave function") treats all possible events as "equally real", and concludes that countless copies of every person and thing exist in all possible configurations spread over an infinity of universes: many worlds. Afflicted by depression and addictions, Everett strove to bring rational order to the professional realms in which he played historically significant roles. In addition to his famous interpretation of quantum mechanics, Everett wrote a classic paper in game theory; created computer algorithms that revolutionized military operations research; and performed pioneering work in artificial intelligence for top secret government projects. He wrote the original software for targeting cities in a nuclear hot war; and he was one of the first scientists to recognize the danger of nuclear winter. As a Cold Warrior, he designed logical systems that modeled "rational" human and machine behaviors, and yet he was largely oblivious to the emotional damage his irrational personal behavior inflicted upon his family, lovers, and business partners. He died young, but left behind a fascinating record of his life, including correspondence with such philosophically inclined physicists as Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and John Wheeler. These remarkable letters illuminate the long and often bitter struggle to explain the paradox of measurement at the heart of quantum physics. In recent years, Everett's solution to this mysterious problem-the existence of a universe of universes-has gained considerable traction in scientific circles, not as science fiction, but as an explanation of physical reality"--

Nuclear physicists --- Quantum theory. --- Space and time. --- Defense contracts --- Military contracts --- War contracts --- Public contracts --- Private military companies --- Research and development contracts, Government --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics) --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Physicists --- History --- Everett, Hugh. --- Everett, H. --- Military research --- Quantum cosmology --- Research --- Quanti --- Spazio [e] Tempo --- Everett, Hugh --- [Struttura della materia] --- Meccanica quantistica --- Numero quantico --- Particelle elementari --- Teoria dei quanti