Location
Cocoa Beach, Florida
Start Date
3-4-1967 12:00 AM
Description
The Aerospace Industry has reacted swiftly to the complex management and technological problems created by the mushrooming space requirements. Whereas a quick reaction capability to specific demands of the National Space Program has worked well in the past, a tightening of the Federal purse strings now and in the 1970's will present new management challenges. New techniques for long range planning and management control are evolving. An analysis of the more significant techniques leads to a recommendation for survival and fiscal growth in the future by applying these new techniques to analyze, decide, plan and control aerospace operations.
The Aerospace industry has demonstrated a fantastic ability to adapt and to grow during the 1960's. A remarkable conversion of technological capability from military aircraft and electronics systems design into the conceiving, designing, testing and "flying" of sophisticated craft in the hostile space environment has been accomplished. Growth of the industry and its component parts has been explosive, but primarily in response to external geopolitical pressures. The magnitude and direction of these pressures are beginning to change as the geopolitical situation gyrates. New pressures are being created by economic and technological change. The industry cannot maintain an attitude of responding only to the needs as they arrive. Time will no longer permit such a luxury.
Aerospace Planning in the 1970's
Cocoa Beach, Florida
The Aerospace Industry has reacted swiftly to the complex management and technological problems created by the mushrooming space requirements. Whereas a quick reaction capability to specific demands of the National Space Program has worked well in the past, a tightening of the Federal purse strings now and in the 1970's will present new management challenges. New techniques for long range planning and management control are evolving. An analysis of the more significant techniques leads to a recommendation for survival and fiscal growth in the future by applying these new techniques to analyze, decide, plan and control aerospace operations.
The Aerospace industry has demonstrated a fantastic ability to adapt and to grow during the 1960's. A remarkable conversion of technological capability from military aircraft and electronics systems design into the conceiving, designing, testing and "flying" of sophisticated craft in the hostile space environment has been accomplished. Growth of the industry and its component parts has been explosive, but primarily in response to external geopolitical pressures. The magnitude and direction of these pressures are beginning to change as the geopolitical situation gyrates. New pressures are being created by economic and technological change. The industry cannot maintain an attitude of responding only to the needs as they arrive. Time will no longer permit such a luxury.
