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CIVIL-MILITARY INTEGRATION:
THE CONTEXT AND URGENCY
William B. Linseott
As defense budgets decline, progress in acquisition reform advances, and
worldwide emerging threats become apparent, the need is obvious for a strong
industrial base to maintain our economic and military strength and retain our
position of global leadership in the 21
st
century. It also becomes clear that our
success depends on integrating the civil and military sides of industry. We
need only change the rules to find that solution.
There are times when the relentless
pace of activity surrounding us can
disguise the obvious. What should
be clear sometimes appears only after it
has been placed in a context that will make
it stand out. With the fast pace of acquisi-
tion reform initiatives commanding our
attention today, the concept of civil-mili-
tary integration (CMI) may be less than
obvious. To appreciate CMI, we must
place it in the context of today's changing
economic and global environment. There
are opportunities available through CMI
that can produce benefits for defense,
industry, and the nation as we position
ourselves for global leadership in the 21st
century.
Recent procurement legislation and
other government initiatives have elimi-
nated some of the barriers to a more
streamlined acquisition process. At the
same time, the Department of Defense
(DoD) continues to struggle with how to
modernize weapon systems for the 21st
century in the face of a defense budget
that has declined dramatically in the past
15 years. A significantly downsized de-
fense industrial base is looking for growth,
which is hard to find in the defense sec-
tor, but is emerging for the civil and com-
mercial aviation and space and communi-
cations sectors. The common denomina-
tor and solution offered for these pressures
is CMI.
SEPARATION OF MILITARY
AND COMMERCIAL SECTORS
Separation of the military and commer-
cial sectors of industry has been culti-
vated carefully over time. The laws and
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