Guide to the Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Professional Reading Program

Defense Acquisition Origins and Trends

• Rearming for the Cold War, 1945–1960 by Elliott V. Converse III
• Adapting to Flexible Response, 1960–1968 by Walter S. Poole
• Defense Acquisition Reform, 1960–2009: An Elusive Goal by J. Ronald Fox

Affordability and Cost

• The $5 Billion Misunderstanding: The Collapse of the Navy’s A-12 Stealth Bomber Program by James P. Stevenson
• Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter

Industrial Productivity and Innovation

• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner

Governmental Productivity and Innovation

• Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet That Defeated the Japanese Navy by John T. Kuehn
• Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
• by Paul Kennedy

Defense Acquisition Professionalism and Leadership

• A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
• Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll

• Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
• The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins, Peter H. Daly, with Cate Reavis
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don’t by Jim Collins

• The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
• The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
• Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America by Jack Beatty
• The Polaris System Development: Bureaucratic and Programmatic Success in Government
• by Harvey M. Sapolsky

• To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petrosky
• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by
• Clayton M. Christensen
• Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World
• by Thomas P. Hughes
• Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P. W. Singer

• Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force by Robert M. Farley
• Engineering the F-4 Phantom II: Parts Into Systems by Glenn E. Bugos
• The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle
• Forged in War: The Naval-Industrial Complex and American Submarine Construction, 1940–1961 by Gary E. Weir
• The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending by Rebecca U. Thorpe
• Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution by Richard Whittle