AH-64 proposals sought in 1972
M1 Abrams, specifications for the XM815 (renamed M1 Abrams) 1971
M270 MLRS, army issued design requirements in 1975
M2/M3 proposals issued in 1972 and FMC won with the XM723
See the pattern? So what programs did Carter start? I doubt you can find two, I doubt you can find one cold war impacting technology initiated by Carter.
No, those programs were not started under the Carter Administration....but one could argue that the Bradley actually started under MG Casey as PEO when the XM723 got going in 1968 in the Johnson Administration.
You can find ties for all of the Big 5 well into the 1960s. The point several of us have been trying to make to you is the Carter Administration continued to fund those programs until they were ready for production. None of these programs sprung out of the air in January 1981. None of these programs were ready for full fielding until the Reagan Administration. Several of these systems had their first several years of production runs funded with the FY 78, 79 and 80 Carter Defense Budgets.
The Thread title is "Ask an Expert".....I have been doing US Army Acquisition since 1988, I am a DAWIA Level 2 certified in Acquisition Logistics and Program Management and currently attending the Defense Acquisition University for Level 3. I do believe I qualify as an Expert in this area and have sufficient knowledge of the Defense Acquisition System over the past 40 years to comment on this subject.
The absolute bottomline is ALL of the weapon systems used by the US military in the 1980s and 1990s were developed based on funding within the Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. If anything, Nixon and Ford underfunded R&D for conventional forces which Carter made up for.
M1 Abrams, specifications for the XM815 (renamed M1 Abrams) 1971
M270 MLRS, army issued design requirements in 1975
M2/M3 proposals issued in 1972 and FMC won with the XM723
See the pattern? So what programs did Carter start? I doubt you can find two, I doubt you can find one cold war impacting technology initiated by Carter.
No, those programs were not started under the Carter Administration....but one could argue that the Bradley actually started under MG Casey as PEO when the XM723 got going in 1968 in the Johnson Administration.
You can find ties for all of the Big 5 well into the 1960s. The point several of us have been trying to make to you is the Carter Administration continued to fund those programs until they were ready for production. None of these programs sprung out of the air in January 1981. None of these programs were ready for full fielding until the Reagan Administration. Several of these systems had their first several years of production runs funded with the FY 78, 79 and 80 Carter Defense Budgets.
The Thread title is "Ask an Expert".....I have been doing US Army Acquisition since 1988, I am a DAWIA Level 2 certified in Acquisition Logistics and Program Management and currently attending the Defense Acquisition University for Level 3. I do believe I qualify as an Expert in this area and have sufficient knowledge of the Defense Acquisition System over the past 40 years to comment on this subject.
The absolute bottomline is ALL of the weapon systems used by the US military in the 1980s and 1990s were developed based on funding within the Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. If anything, Nixon and Ford underfunded R&D for conventional forces which Carter made up for.
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