xi Acknowledgments We would like to thank our project leader, Frank Camm, and project members Mary Chenoweth, Armand Grassi, Christopher Hanks, Edward Keating, Nancy Moore, and Kenneth Reynolds for helpful comments and advice. David Finegold of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California provided a thoughtful review that helped us improve this report. William Kovacic (George Mason University School of Law), François Melese (Naval Postgraduate School), Walter Hosey (SAF/FMCE), and Simon Webb (Minister for Defense Materiel, British Embassy) also provided useful comments. In addition, we thank conference participants from the Western Economic Association, RAND, and the Center for Naval Analyses for their comments and suggestions.