Implosion : lessons from national security, high reliability spacecraft, electronics, and the forces which changed them / L. Parker Temple.
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TextPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2013]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2013]Description: 1 PDF (xxi, 346 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9781118487105
- 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
- Weapons
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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