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This Phase I report provides the findings and recommendations of the Defense Science Board Task Force an Industry-to-Industry International Armaments Cooperation between the U.S. and the European NATO countries. A second phase of our task activities, now in progress will apply to cooperation with Japan. The report is made up of reproductions of the viewgraphs used to brief the Defense Science Board, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, supplemented by amplifying text where pertinent. First, the starting point for the Task Force deliberations was the stated policy for increased industry-to-industry arms cooperation with our Allies. Second, we concluded that there are several fundamental prerequisities for achieving a substantial increase in industrial cooperation. Our European allies must be persuaded to increase high quality investments in key military-oriented technologies for there to be a better balanced and more effective technological partnership. Third, out of all of our sixteen sets of findings and recommendations on various aspects to the subject, we feel strongly that the last one on U.S. investment in R & D is the most important by far.
Difficulties faced by cooperative acquisition programs are identified as the inability to agree on common requirements and the existence of economic or political interests of the partner nations which conflict with or impinge on the program. These are the causes of failure of many of the past cooperative projects undertaken by NATO countries for the purpose of standardization. The study investigated the European Fighter Aircraft (EFA) program in order to find if the same holds true for the EFA and the impact that those difficulties had in the program. The EFA has been subject to the same problems. All the nations involved have defended their internal economic interests within the program. On the other hand, their collective economic interests have had the effect of keeping the program alive despite the difficulties. Irrespective of standardization purposes, the EFA appears as both a military and industrial necessity to push the aerospace industries of the partner nations to a competitive level in the world marketplace.
This Phase I report provides the findings and recommendations of the Defense Science Board Task Force an Industry-to-Industry International Armaments Cooperation between the U.S. and the European NATO countries. A second phase of our task activities, now in progress will apply to cooperation with Japan. The report is made up of reproductions of the viewgraphs used to brief the Defense Science Board, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and the Deputy Secretary of Defense, supplemented by amplifying text where pertinent. First, the starting point for the Task Force deliberations was the stated policy for increased industry-to-industry arms cooperation with our Allies. Second, we concluded that there are several fundamental prerequisities for achieving a substantial increase in industrial cooperation. Our European allies must be persuaded to increase high quality investments in key military-oriented technologies for there to be a better balanced and more effective technological partnership. Third, out of all of our sixteen sets of findings and recommendations on various aspects to the subject, we feel strongly that the last one on U.S. investment in R & D is the most important by far.
The purpose of this research was to examine various aspects of NATO armaments cooperation. The study examined the ongoing Modular Standoff Weapon System (MSOW) program within the context of broader study of overall NATO cooperation. The MSOW program currently involves five nations in an effort to build a family of long range airlaunched ground attack missiles. The objective of the study was to determine the benefits and drawbacks of NATO armaments cooperation, as well as the military, economic, and political factors that influence it. Further, the study attempted to determine whether MSOW's benefits, drawbacks, and influential factors paralleled those of overall NATO cooperation and whether the MSOW program was projected to yield a weapon system worth the additional effort required in a joint program. Theses. (FR).
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is the only theater missile defense system being developed within NATO to defend forward-deployed maneuver forces and NATO territory from theater ballistic missile attack. To gain the extra funding needed to keep this expensive TMD system alive, and to improve its reputation for reliability in Alliance weapon programs, the United States convinced NATO Europe that MEADS would be the model for triggering a "renaissance in armaments cooperation." To NATO Europe, however, MEADS became a litmus test of America's credibility as a future armaments partner. MEADs' european partners threatened to end armaments cooperation and pursue a policy of European self-sufficiency, which might undermine NATO's cohesion, if MEADS should fail because of U.S. political and bureaucratic interests. This thesis examines U.S. and European decision-making concerning whether MEADS becomes the model for future trans-Atlantic armaments cooperation or the impetus for fragmenting NATO cohesion. It concludes that the West's common strategic interest in maintaining stability on the European continent and in countering the increasing menace from the proliferation of WMD and ballistic missiles will prevent a failed MEADS from threatening the near-term viability of the fifty year old trans-Atlantic alliance.
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