U. S. FMS and ROK economic acquisition of weapon systems
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Authors
Lee, Seung Joo
Subjects
FMS
ROK
efficiency
acquisition
ROK
efficiency
acquisition
Advisors
Laurance, Edward J.
Date of Issue
1987-06
Date
June 1987
Publisher
Language
en_US
Abstract
Since the Korean war, the military balance on the peninsula has continually
favored North Korea. The North continues to pose an imminent danger to the peace
and stability of the South. North Korea's recent swing toward the Soviet Union and
the transfer of new technology further increases the threat. The importance of the
peninsula to the East-Asia regional security has been emphasized. In FY 86, the U.S.
Congress did not appropriate FMS funds for the Republic of Korea. This has resulted
in increased defense expenditures that force the Republic of Korea to find a more
efficient means of acquisition. It is clear that FMS pricing, contract and financing are
critical areas to ROK's efficient acquisition of arms. Instead of a high-level political
solution to the problem, negotiation and price analysis are found as the most
important areas at the operational level to be improved in the ROK's FMS
procurement. It is concluded that good price analysis and skilled negotiation will
insure adequate requirement definition and efficiency in ROK procurements.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
120 p.
Citation
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