Maximizing U.S. interests in science and technology relations with Japan : report of the defense task force / Committee on Japan, Office of Japan Affairs, Office of International Affairs, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Japan.

National Academy Press (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Technology.

United States--Relations--Japan.

United States.

Japan--Relations--United States.

Japan.

United States. Department of Defense.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Maximizing U.S. Interests in Science and Technology Relations with Japan""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""MAJOR FINDINGS""; ""Why Work Toward Technology Reciprocity?""; ""Previous Efforts and Initiatives Have Made Little Progress To Date""; ""Overcoming Obstacles Will Require Focused Persistent Efforts""; ""DEVELOPING A NEW APPROACH""; ""Reducing and Eliminating Barriers to Cooperation""; ""Integrating Enhanced Technology Cooperation and Alliance Management""; ""Organizing to Maximize U.S. Interests""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Defining U.S. Interests""

""SUMMARY POINTS"" ""HISTORICAL OVERVIEW""; ""Changes During the 1980's""; ""THE NEW ENVIRONMENT""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. INTERESTS""; ""Defense Budgets""; ""Defense Capabilities""; ""What Sort of U.S.-Japan Security Alliance?""; ""The Course of Economic Relations""; ""3 The Context for U.S.-Japan Defense and Industrial Technology Cooperation""; ""SUMMARY POINTS""; ""PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN OVERALL U.S.-JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RELATIONS""; ""OVERVIEW OF U.S.-JAPAN DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL/TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION""; ""4 Motivations and Mechanisms for Cooperation in Defense Technology""

""SUMMARY POINTS"" ""POSSIBLE U.S. BENEFITS""; ""Hard Technology""; ""Soft Technology""; ""Leverage for Scarce Resources""; ""Influence and Goodwill""; ""MECHANISMS FOR COOPERATION""; ""Japanese Procurement of U.S. Systems: Off-the-Shelf and Blended Modes""; ""Japanese Licensed Production of U.S. Systems""; ""U.S.-Japan Co-development of Defense Systems""; ""Cooperation in the Development of Subsystems, Military Technologies, and Upgrades of Systems Deployed by Both Countries""

""5 U.S.-Japan Cooperation in Dual-Use Technologies: Pursuing Opportunities and Managing Risks"" ""SUMMARY POINTS""; ""ACCESSING JAPANESE COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR U.S. DEFENSE NEEDS""; ""Advanced Composites""; ""Optoelectronics""; ""Incorporating Japanese Commercial Technologies and Capabilities into U.S. Weapons Systems""; ""Government Facilitation of U.S.-Japan Private Sector Collaboration that Strengthens the U.S. Defense Industrial Base""; ""MANAGING DEPENDENCE ON JAPAN AND OTHER FOREIGN SOURCES FOR CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES, COMPONENTS, AND EQUIPMENT""

""POSSIBLE FUTURE CHALLENGES IN DUAL-USE AREAS""""6 Looking to the Future: U.S. and Japanese Needs, Obstacles, and Alternative Approaches""; ""MUTUAL NEEDS""; ""GENERAL PATTERNS OF INTERACTION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. INTERESTS""; ""OBSTACLES TO COOPERATION AND POLICY OPTIONS""; ""Asymmetries in Capabilities and Institutions""; ""Japanese Government and Industry Attitudes""; ""Bilateral and U.S. Government Approaches""; ""7 Maximizing U.S. Interests: Conclusions and Policy Recommendations""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""Importance and Context of the U.S.-Japan Alliance""

""The Role of Science and Technology""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.