Troubled Partnership

Mark Lorell is a senior analyst at RAND in the International Policy Department. He is the author of numerous works on aerospace collaboration and foreign research and development policies.

• Preface, Figures, Tables, Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, INTRODUCTION, Background, Overview: What Went Wrong?, Organization of This Document, THE U.S. QUEST FOR TECHNOLOGY RECIPROCITY, Introduction, Japan’s Defense Build-Up and the Concept of Burden-Sharing, Developing a Legal Framework for Access to Japanese Defense Technology, Early U.S. Initiatives, New Initiatives from the Reagan Administration, Japanese Resistance—And Eventual Compromise, The Exchange of Notes and the Establishment of the Joint Military Technology Commission, The U.S. Demands for “Free and Automatic Flowback” of Derived Technology, Negotiating the Implementation Arrangements, In Search of a Technology, Of Gallium Arsenide, Integrated Circuits, and Military Radars, The First TAT Visit to Japan, A Brief Glimpse at Japan’s New Military Radar Technologies, Taking a Second Look at Japanese Defense-Related Technologies, Going After the Keiko Surface-to-Air Missile, Pentagon Frustration on the Eve of FS-X, JAPAN’S POSTWAR QUEST FOR A NATIONAL FIGHTER, Introduction, Development of Japan’s Postwar Defense Industry, First Steps, Reviving the Postwar Military Aircraft Industry, Fighters Versus Commercial Aircraft, The Push Toward Indigenous Military Aircraft in the 1970s, Inception of the Rising Sun Fighter, BUILDING THE FIGHTER TECHNOLOGY BASE, Introduction, Learning from Licensed Production, The Unique Nature of the F-15 Program, Military Versus Commercial Spin-Offs from the F-15, Gaining Experience in System Integration, The F-4EJaZ Fighter, The XSH-60J Helicopter, The T-4 Jet Trainer, Targeting Development of Key Technologies for the Future Fighter, Advanced Flight-Control Technology, Composite Materials and Aircraft Structures, The MELCO Active Phased-Array Radar, THE BATTLE JOINED: STOPPING THE RISING SUN FIGHTER, Introduction, Background: U.S. Industry Confronts a Shrinking Global Market, The U.S. Government Enters the Fray, Military and Strategic Reasons Behind the Pentagon’s Opposition,