Location
Cocoa Beach, FL
Start Date
5-4-1965 8:00 AM
Description
Since the advent of the "Space Age", the United States has achieved many significant firsts in the field of technology. This is particularly evident in the development of today 1 s advanced weapon systems. The term, weapon system, is defined as an instrument of combat integrated with all it f s associate equipment, support facilities and services. This includes assembly of material, personnel, installations, plans, directives and procedures required to enable the instrument of combat to accomplish it's tactical mission. General Schriever, Commander of the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) stated at the National Advanced Technology Management Conference held in Seattle, Washington, "sound management is clearly the pacing factor in technological progress. It is essential to the timely acquisition of the new Air Force Systems ... in all this effort there is no substitute for technological competence and sound management practices. "1 Application of modern management practices to the Minuternan /veapon System Development Program will clearly indicate how sound today's progressive management can be.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the key policies and procedures enacted at the various managerial levels during the Minuteman Program's implementation. The specific managerial levels which will be examined are: system program management, corporate management, and field level management. The selection of these areas is justified on the basis of the present organizational structure which denotes these levels to be the key areas of the program.
Management and the Minuteman
Cocoa Beach, FL
Since the advent of the "Space Age", the United States has achieved many significant firsts in the field of technology. This is particularly evident in the development of today 1 s advanced weapon systems. The term, weapon system, is defined as an instrument of combat integrated with all it f s associate equipment, support facilities and services. This includes assembly of material, personnel, installations, plans, directives and procedures required to enable the instrument of combat to accomplish it's tactical mission. General Schriever, Commander of the Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) stated at the National Advanced Technology Management Conference held in Seattle, Washington, "sound management is clearly the pacing factor in technological progress. It is essential to the timely acquisition of the new Air Force Systems ... in all this effort there is no substitute for technological competence and sound management practices. "1 Application of modern management practices to the Minuternan /veapon System Development Program will clearly indicate how sound today's progressive management can be.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the key policies and procedures enacted at the various managerial levels during the Minuteman Program's implementation. The specific managerial levels which will be examined are: system program management, corporate management, and field level management. The selection of these areas is justified on the basis of the present organizational structure which denotes these levels to be the key areas of the program.
