TIME was when the maintenance problem of armies consisted of little more than shoeing horses and hammering out the dents in a knight's armor. But in today's supersonic and electronic age, the task of caring for a stable of increasingly complex weapons and equipment has become a major problem for the military, and a challenge and opportunity for private industry. Of the Defense Department's $7 billion maintenance budget in fiscal 1956, nearly $1.4 billion was for overhauling, and a fourth of this went to U.S. business for its part in maintaining the nation's arsenal. Though private business has made...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
