"Yankee Doodle"
Introduction
Introduction
From the beginning, whenever the United States of America had to defend its
rights and protect the liberties we so much enjoy and cherish, private
industry has come to the aid of the country, providing facilities, management
skills and expert technology necessary to produce the goods of war. Even in
the early stages of the Revolutionary War, many of the patriotic civilian
business men enthusiastically supported the Continental Congress and supply
agencies of the Colonial Army and subsequently devoted years of effort and
personal assets in producing equipment.
Until the most recent of our modern wars, the United States continued to build
its arms using the government Arsenal System complimented by the rapid buildup
of civilian industry. As in Colonial times, American makers of plowshares
could, with time and applied technical resources, make swords as well. But now
we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. Over time,
a permanent armament industry of vast proportions was created which operates
in parallel to the Government Arsenal System. Added to this, three and a half
million men and women are directly engaged in the defense system procurements.
On military security, we annually spend more than the net income of all
United States corporations.
Over the years, this coalition of civilian businesses developed into the
Defense Industry Association who, on 17 January, 1961, was strongly denounced
and branded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as the "Military-Industrial
Complex" who must be guarded against in their attempt, whether deliberate or
not, to acquire unwarranted influence of government policy.
The growth of the civilian businesses into an affiliated organization was a
natural defensive reaction to the early desire of the government to closely
monitor their enterpreneural methods of management and control. As may be
understood, in order to fully harness and channel the efforts of these first
rag-tag collection of industries into an orderly, unified productive force,
the Continental Congress established the first of a series of ever growing
procurement regulations which each supplier had to comply in conducting
business. The contractor would not be paid until full compliance to these
regulations was documented during the performance of the contract. The
following chapters documents the efforts of the first of these industrial
leaders who rose to meet the challenge presented by these regulations.
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