DARPA and the Third Reich"s Nike: Defense Research in the USA and Germany

The book presents materials containing analysis, generalization and systematization of the experience of the United States and Germany, accumulated in organizing, planning, financing and conducting defense studies. The choice of these countries is unuschaued and determined by the presence of significant differences in the processes of formation and functioning of systems for the provision of armed forces with the latest samples of weapons and military equipment.
In general, the monograph gives an idea of ​​the functioning of the defense research system in the United States, as well as the experience of Germany in the field of R & D management.
Book materials will be useful to a wide range of specialists involved in the processes of development and implementation of both the state defense order and the state program of weapons and other state, federal targeted programs that have defense orientation. The book can also be of interest to the heads of state bodies of legislative and executive authorities, employees of industrial enterprises, researchers of academies of sciences and teachers of institutions of higher education institutions that study organizational principles and approaches to planning major scientific and technical projects