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Implosion : lessons from national security, high reliability spacecraft, electronics, and the forces which changed them / L. Parker Temple.

By: Temple, L. Parker, III [auteur.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | John Wiley & Sons [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2013]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2013]Description: 1 PDF (xxi, 346 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781118487105.Subject(s): Electronics -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Electronics in military engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Aerospace electronics | Aircraft | Aircraft manufacture | Assembly | Cats | Complexity theory | Computers | Consumer electronics | Contracts | Educational institutions | Electron tubes | Force | Government | History | Industries | Integrated circuit reliability | Integrated circuits | Joints | Manufacturing | Market research | Materials | Military aircraft | Military satellites | Military standards | Missiles | NASA | National security | Physics | Process control | Procurement | Product design | Production | Qualifications | Quality assessment | Quality assurance | Radar | Reconnaissance | Reliability | Reliability engineering | Research and development | Rockets | Satellites | Schedules | Solids | Space missions | Space vehicles | Standards | Storms | Surveillance | Systems engineering and theory | Technological innovation | Testing | Trajectory | Transistors | US Department of Defense | Very high speed integrated circuits | Very large scale integration | WeaponsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 623/.0430973 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
List of Figures vii -- List of Tables ix -- Preface xi -- Acknowledgments xv -- Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Program Names xvii -- Part I Activation Energy (1931-1968) -- 1. Washington . . . We Have a Problem . . . 3 -- 2. The Quantum Leap 6 -- 3. Preparation 21 -- 4. The Final Frontiers 29 -- 5. Minuteman Means Reliability 58 -- 6. Skinning Cats 68 -- Part II Startup Transient (1969-1980) -- 7. Changing the Sea State 87 -- 8. Space Parts: From A to S 93 -- 9. There's S, and Then There's S 122 -- 10. A Little Revolution Now and Then Is Good 140 -- 11. Quality on the Horizon 144 -- Part III Switching Transient (1980-1989) -- 12. Crossing the Operational Divide 153 -- 13. Stocking the Shelves 168 -- 14. Hammered 184 -- 15. Battlegrounds: Reorganization and Reform 187 -- 16. Implementing Change in a Changing World 207 -- Part IV Shorting To Ground (1989-2002) -- 17. Leap First, Look Later 231 -- 18. Hardly Standing PAT 248 -- Part V Resetting the Circuit Breakers -- 19. Brewing the Perfect Storm 277 -- 20. Summing the Parts 301 -- Epilogue: Can One Ever Truly Go Home Again? 309 -- Index 322
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List of Figures vii -- List of Tables ix -- Preface xi -- Acknowledgments xv -- Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Program Names xvii -- Part I Activation Energy (1931-1968) -- 1. Washington . . . We Have a Problem . . . 3 -- 2. The Quantum Leap 6 -- 3. Preparation 21 -- 4. The Final Frontiers 29 -- 5. Minuteman Means Reliability 58 -- 6. Skinning Cats 68 -- Part II Startup Transient (1969-1980) -- 7. Changing the Sea State 87 -- 8. Space Parts: From A to S 93 -- 9. There's S, and Then There's S 122 -- 10. A Little Revolution Now and Then Is Good 140 -- 11. Quality on the Horizon 144 -- Part III Switching Transient (1980-1989) -- 12. Crossing the Operational Divide 153 -- 13. Stocking the Shelves 168 -- 14. Hammered 184 -- 15. Battlegrounds: Reorganization and Reform 187 -- 16. Implementing Change in a Changing World 207 -- Part IV Shorting To Ground (1989-2002) -- 17. Leap First, Look Later 231 -- 18. Hardly Standing PAT 248 -- Part V Resetting the Circuit Breakers -- 19. Brewing the Perfect Storm 277 -- 20. Summing the Parts 301 -- Epilogue: Can One Ever Truly Go Home Again? 309 -- Index 322

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