The Technology Reinvestment Project: Integrating Military and Civilian Industries
Abstract
The end of the Cold War provides the United States with significant benefits as well as some difficult challenges. One such challenge will be easing the transition of the U.S. industrial base to technologies and products that have both military and civilian uses. In light of the extraordinary difficulty of this task, the Congress appropriated $927 million for fiscal year 1993 through the Defense Department for research and development programs that promote dual-use technologies. Unlike other defense conversion programs established to help dislocated workers and communities, much less is known about how programs that assist the industrial base will be implemented. At the request of Senator Jim Sasser, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, this Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper describes eight programs contained within the Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Act of 1992 that were designed to help defense-oriented firms emphasize dual-use production. In keeping with CBO's mandate to provide objective and nonpartisan analyses, the paper makes no recommendations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1993
- Accession Number
- AD1001729
Entities
People
- Rachel Schmidt
Organizations
- Congressional Budget Office