Productivity of Defense RDT/E

Abstract

The paper explores the feasibility of measuring the productivity of the military Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT+E) program. The author formulates and estimates systematic relationships between the aggregate resources and products of the portions of the RDT+E program concerned with the development of new aircraft and missiles. These relationships trace the aggregate effects of different levels of these portions of the program and consequently measure the productivity of the related RDT+E resources. The relationships can be useful for showing the effects of RDT+E resources as instruments for achieving military security in a way that might be compared to the resources allocated to other instruments such as force procurement, force deployment, and intelligence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0734386

Entities

People

  • Charles L. Trozzo

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Industrial Research
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Investments
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.