Word: boyd
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...University of Colorado made its offer to Limerick last December after spending two years searching for a replacement for a retiring History professor. Boyd Hill, chairman of the Colorado History Department, said yesterday...
Among the early reformers were two of Spinney's former mentors in the Pentagon bureaucracy, Air Force Colonel (Ret.) John Boyd and Research Scientist Pierre Sprey. It was the lobbying of Boyd and Sprey for simpler, more maneuverable weapons that made possible the development in the early 1970s of the F-16 fighter jet, an effective and affordable complement to the expensive...
Defenders of the new weapons say this is like comparing apples and oranges, since the advanced armaments are either more powerful or versatile than the simpler ones. But reformers like Sprey, Boyd and Rasor argue that in many cases the simpler weapons are actually more effective. The F-16 fighter jet was developed as a leaner sister to the F-15, which is loaded with high-powered radar and weapons guidance systems. Because the F-16 is smaller, less detectable and gives off less exhaust smoke, it is more capable of catching the enemy by surprise. It also...
Spinney's boss was the now legendary Colonel John Boyd, a rebel so fierce in his beliefs that he was sometimes called "the mad colonel." Boyd organized the so-called Fighter Mafia, a group of officers who insisted that the service ought to develop a lightweight, fairly simple, relatively inexpensive combat plane. Boyd taught Spinney that the cost and complexity of weapons are no accurate guide to their performance in combat. But clear thinking like Boyd's was rare in the Air Force bureaucracy. Tired of running into intellectual brick walls-and afraid that some of his superiors...
...Program Analysis and Evaluation office. That office was originally set up by Robert McNamara to provide hard-eyed advice about whether the weapons plans of the armed services really made sense. Spinney says he was attracted to the Analysis and Evaluation office because of the chance to work with Boyd again...