TY - JOUR AU1 - Ramo, Simon AB - SIMON RAMO Weapons System Management Both govemmenJ and private industry face important issues in weapons systems engineering. Systems engineering has always been a part of attacking problems of much greater complex­ every engineering task. It is the integrating of ity and size than in the past. There are many the whole, as distinct from the invention and more interactions among the parts and param­ design of its parts: the creation and analysis of eters of every project and there is greater the over-all answer to a problem; the breaking dependence on recently discovered scientific down of the total into a set of harmonious, phenomena than was ever true previously. realizable, specified parts; the assurance of Consequently, those parts of the whole job compatibility and consistency in the ensemble, known as "systems management" and "systems and the relating of that ensemble to the outside engineering" have become both much more im­ world that has originated the need and that portant and difficult. Some of the old tech­ will employ the final result. These factors are niques used by systems engineers have had to present in varying degrees in creating every be sharpened and extended and new manage­ single piece or TI - Weapons System Management JF - California Management Review DO - 10.2307/41165330 DA - 1958-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/weapons-system-management-tjreTg760M SP - 14 EP - 19 VL - 1 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -