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Economic conversion

Here are entered works on the conversion of industries or enterprises from government supported space or defense operations to civilian activities and markets.

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• Disarmament -- Economic aspects

• Economic conversion -- Alaska
• Economic conversion -- California, Southern
• Economic conversion -- Europe, Eastern
• Economic conversion -- France
• Economic conversion -- Law and legislation
• Economic conversion -- New England
• Economic conversion -- Pennsylvania
• Economic conversion -- Rhode Island
• Economic conversion -- Russia (Federation)
• Economic conversion -- Soviet Union
• Economic conversion -- Texas
• Economic conversion -- Ukraine
• Economic conversion -- United States
• Economic conversion -- Virginia
• Military base conversion

• Conversion, Economic
• Conversion from military to civilian production
• Conversion of industries
• Defense conversion
• Military to civilian conversion

• International institutions and military conversion : the cases of the EBRD, EC, IBRD, IFC, IMF, NATO, OECD, and UN (Council on Economic Priorities, 1993), by Jurgen Brauer, Ku Shin, Domenick Bertelli, and Council on Economic Priorities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Will restructuring NASA improve its performance? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, November 16, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA's relevance to the U.S. economy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, October 28, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Gould House Conference on economics of disarmament, January 28-30, 1961. (Committee for World Development and World Disarmament, Post War World Council, 1961) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contract termination : (executive session) hearings before Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R.4789 and S.1718, to provide for the settlement of claims arising from terminated war contracts, and for other purposes, (includes hearings before the House Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, and excerpts from other Congressional hearings), May 17, 1944 (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1944, 1944), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 and United States. Congress 1944). House (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consideration of H.R. 12910, H.R. 11767, H.R. 4903, S. 223, H.R. 4772, H.R. 5943, and H.R. 9796, to authorize the extension of certain naval vessel loans now in existence, and for other purposes. (U.S. G.P.O., 1967), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Defense Economic Adjustment, Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization Act of 1990--H.R. 3999 : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs and the Subcommittee on Environment and Labor of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, Paramount, CA, July 23, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Environment and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• New opportunities in high technology industry for southern California : hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, February 11 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eastern Europe : reforms spur recovery. (Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, 1994), by United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern Europe : reforms about to pay off (Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, 1993), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Technology and National Security and United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lessons in Restructuring Defense Industry: The French Experience (OTA-BP-ISC-96; Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
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  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Defense economic adjustment and conversion program (Newport, RI) : hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, hearing held December 16, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Field hearings on economic competitiveness and the effects of lower defense spending on small business : hearings before the Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session ... June 22 and 29, July 8, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business (page images at HathiTrust)

• Defense economic adjustment and conversion program (Newport, RI) : hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, hearing held December 16, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beyond Nunn Lugar. (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2002), by Thomas Riisager, Henry D. Sokolski, and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Soviet military conversion : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, September 19, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Government and industry cooperation to promote economic conversion : hearing before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, September 16, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)

• Defense Conversion: Redirecting R&D (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Defense conversion : redirecting R & D. (Office of Technology, Congress of the U.S. :, 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense conversion : redirecting R&D : summary. (Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the U.S., 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adjusting to the drawdown : report of the Defense Conversion Commission, December 13, 1992. (The Commission :, 1992), by United States. Defense Conversion Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic conversion hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, One-hundredth Congress, second session, June 29, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O., 1989), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic diversification hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, June 13, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O., 1989), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense conversion initiatives : progress and plans : hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, July 20, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense adjustment infrastructure bonds : credit enhancement grants make affordable capital available (Economic Development Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1998), by United States. Economic Development Administration and Commonwealth Development Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jobs and rural America : hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on hearings to examine the employment situation and economic development in rural communities, focusing on the impact of the economic conversion and growth in the industrial capacity of developing nations and the possible need for rural economic policy and programs, November 20, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field hearing : defense conversion : hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, January 12, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Future of the defense industrial base : report of the Structure of U.S. Defense Industrial Base Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Structure of U.S. Defense Industrial Base Panel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reinvestment of defense resources for economic growth : hearing before the Defense Policy Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, hearing held May 20, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Defense Policy Panel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense technology, reinvestment and conversion issues : hearings before the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session : hearings held March 1, 22, June 1, and August 4, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Research and Technology Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oversight hearing into implementation of the defense economic adjustment and conversion program : hearing before the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, hearing held May 15, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic conversion : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, One-hundredth Congress, second session, June 29, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effectiveness of Economic Adjustment Office (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense Production Act Amendments of 1989 (H.R. 486) : hearings before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, May 17, 18, 24, and June 20, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic diversification : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, June 13, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense conversion programs in the President's fiscal year 1994 budget proposal : hearings before the Subcommittee on Economic Growth and Credit Formation of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, April 19 and 22, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Finance United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense conversion : hearings before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, April 9 and May 19, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Department of Energy's national laboratories : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One hundred first Congress, second session, on the current operations and future mission of the Department of Energy's national laboratories, July 25, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternative futures for the Department of Energy national laboratories : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session ... February 28, 1995. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Export promotion for the products of defense conversion and diversification : hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, August 5, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Trade United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adequacies of programs for civilian employees and local communities affected by base closings and realignment : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, February 20, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by Post Office United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• The future of the Department of Energy laboratories : hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, October 9, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• New directions for the DOE multiprogram laboratories--implications for the federal laboratory system : hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, September 24, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of issues relating to defense industry conversion : hearing before the Subcommittee on Procurement, Tourism, and Rural Development of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, Bristol, RI, May 18, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by Tourism United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Procurement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Government and industry cooperation to promote economic conversion : hearing before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, September 16, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Videoconference : defense conversion : hearing before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, November 3, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alternative futures for the Department of Energy national laboratories "the Galvin report" and National laboratories need clearer missions and better management, a GAO report to the Secretary of Energy : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Basic Research and Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, March 9, 1995. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States House Subcommittee on Basic Research and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Restructuring the federal scientific establishment : future missions and governance for the Department of Energy (DOE) national labs : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Basic Research and the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 87, H.R. 1510, H.R. 1993 (Title II), and H.R. 2142, September 7, 1995. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States House Subcommittee on Basic Research and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adjusting to the drawdown : report of the Defense Conversion Commission. (Defense Conversion Commission, 1992), by United States. Dept of Defense. Defense Conversion Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The employment effects of shifting three billion dollars from defense to State and local government-related activities (Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, 1993), by Linda Levine, Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, and United States House Committee on Government Operations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Will restructuring NASA improve its performance? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, November 16, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA's relevance to the U.S. economy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, October 28, 1993. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Science United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transition Assistance Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, July 18, 1991 and July 25, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by Training United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transition Assistance Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, March 19, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by Training United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Transition Assistance Program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, May 25, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by Training United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military airport program and reliever set-aside update (United States General Accounting, 1996), by John H. Anderson, United States General Accounting Office, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-War Economic Policy and Planning. : hearings before the United States House Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, Seventy-Eighth Congress, first session, Seventy-Eighth Congress, second session, Seventy-Ninth Congress, first session. (U.S. G.P.O., 1944), by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Post-War Economic Policy and Planning. : hearings before the United States House Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, and Senate Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, Seventy- Eighth Congress, second session. (U.S. G.P.O., 1944), by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning and United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contract Termination : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 3 (Judiciary), Seventy-Eighth Congress, second session, on May 17, 1944. (U.S. G.P.O., 1944), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorandum on H.R. 4486 and statement by the Chairman of the Committee on the General Objectives of the Hearings : to provide for the sale of certain government-owned merchant vessels, and for other purposes. ([U.S. G.P.O.?], 1944) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adjusting to the drawdown : report of the Defense Conversion Committee. (Dept. of Defense, Defense Conversion Committee, 1992), by United States. Defense Conversion Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons learned from defense adjustment : a comprehensive approach to economic transition : submitted to Office of Economic Adjustment, U.S. Department of Defense, Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce (The Association, 1996), by Kenneth E. Poole, Nancy McCrea, Caroline Robbins Bodziak, National Association of State Development Agencies (U.S.), United States. Economic Development Administration, and United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense. Office of Economic Adjustment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense conversion initiatives : progress and plans : hearing before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, July 20, 1993 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contract termination : (executive session) hearings before Subcommittee No. 3 of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R.4789 and S.1718, to provide for the settlement of claims arising from terminated war contracts, and for other purposes, (includes hearings before the House Special Committee on Post-War Economic Policy and Planning, and excerpts from other Congressional hearings), May 17, 1944 (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1944, 1944), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 and United States. Congress 1944). House (page images at HathiTrust)

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