Keynote addresses: perspectives on manufacturing USA -- Panel 1: alternative public-private partnership models -- Panel 2: international programs in advanced manufacturing -- Breakout sessions: feedback and future directions for the DoD Manufacturing USA institutes -- Discussion.

"This book examines the roots of the military industrial complex (MIC) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the MIC's full flowering in the wake of the Cold War, and how America's current MIC evolved after the events of 9/11 and throughout the War on Terror. Specifically, Cooling argues...