Defense Budget, 1995

Defense Budget, 1995
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1995-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780788117053

Examines the Department of Defense's fiscal year 1995 budget request and prior years' appropriations for selected research, development, test and evaluation and procurement programs. Identifies potential reductions to the fiscal year 1995 budget request and potential rescissions to prior years appropriations. 4 charts and tables

Defense Spending And Economic Growth

Defense Spending And Economic Growth
Author: James E. Payne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429695675

This book examines the impact defense spending has on economic growth. While defense spending was not deliberately invented as a fiscal policy instrument, its importance in the composition of overall government spending and thus in determining employment is now easily recognized. In light of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent reduction in the threat to the security of the United States, maintaining defense spending at the old level seems indefensible. The media has concentrated on the so-called peace dividend. However, as soon as the federal government is faced with defense cuts, it realizes the macroeconomic ramifications of such a step. Based on studies included in this volume, we examine the effects of defense spending on economic growth and investigate how the changed world political climate is likely to alter the importance and pattern of defense spending both for developed and developing countries.

The Pig Book

The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-04-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780312343576

A compendium of the most ridiculous examples of Congress's pork-barrel spending.

Let's Stay-at-home Games [kit]

Let's Stay-at-home Games [kit]
Author: Mineau, Diane
Publisher: Tormont
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1998
Genre:
ISBN: 9782764105054

- a 7 1/2" 10" book with 32 pages of rules for 27 games- 6 board games- 2 dice- a set of dominoes- 4 felt markers- 2 blindfolds- 20 plastic tokens- a box of pick-up sticks- a pack of 52 playing cards- a Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey game- 48 illustrated playing cards- packaged in an attractive case (9 3/4" 13 1/4" 2")

Budget Options

Budget Options
Author: United States. Congressional Budget Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1977
Genre: Budget
ISBN:

Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa

Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa
Author: Wuyi Omitoogun
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780199262663

In this comprehensive study, 15 African experts describe and analyse the military budgetary processes and degree of parliamentary oversight and control in nine countries of Africa, spanning across all the continent's sub-regions. Each case study addresses a wide range of questions, such as the roles of the ministries of finance, budget offices, audit departments and external actors in the military budgetary processes, the extent of compliance with standard public expenditure management procedures, and how well official military expenditure figures reflect the true economic resources devoted to military activities in these countries.

Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology

Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 107
Release: 1995-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 030917600X

The United States faces a new challengeâ€"maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting science and technology despite fiscal stringency during the next several years. To address this change, the Senate Appropriations Committee requested a report from the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine to address "the criteria that should be used in judging the appropriate allocation of funds to research and development activities; to examine the appropriate balance among different types of institutions that conduct such research; and to look at the means of assuring continued objectivity in the allocation process." In this eagerly-awaited book, a committee of experts selected by the National Academies and the Institute responds with 13 recommendations that propose a new budgeting process and formulates a series of questions to address during that process. The committee also makes corollary recommendations about merit review, government oversight, linking research and development to government missions, the synergy between research and education, and other topics. The recommendations are aimed at rooting out obsolete and inadequate activities to free resources from good programs for even better ones, in the belief that "science and technology will be at least as important in the future as they have been in the past in dealing with problems that confront the nation." The authoring committee of this book was chaired by Frank Press, former President of the National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993) and Presidential Science and Technology Advisor (1977-1981).

Defense Conversion

Defense Conversion
Author: Jacques S. Gansler
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262071666

This text examines the need to convert the defence industry from an inefficient and non-competitive part of the US economy to an integrated, civilian/military operation. The author defines the challenges, especially the influence of old-line defence interests and presents examples of restructuring. Gansler discusses growing foreign involvement, lessons of prior industrial conversions, the best structure for the next century, current barriers to integration, a three-part transformation strategy, the role of technological leadership, and the critical workforce. He concludes by outlining sixteen specific actions for achieving civil/military integration.