Historical Perspectives: A Review and Evaluation of 76 Studies of the Defense Research Enterprise, 1945-2015

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Defense has many ongoing initiatives to improve the responsiveness of its organizational components and external partners to Department needs and national interests. Future of the Force initiatives, Better Buying Power 3.0, the Third Offset Strategy, Defense Innovation Unit X: the list could go on. These efforts are designed to improve responsiveness to a broad range of potential threats and conflict scenarios while improving the Departments long-term responsiveness to budget uncertainty and legislative pressures, unpredictable technological change, environmental complexity, volatile cultural interactions, economic and geopolitical risk. DoD not only responds to these conditions, but actively shapes them. This report collects historical perspectives from 70 years of official reports and commissioned studies assessing the defense research enterprise, with the expectation that historical recommendations for improving defense research enterprise management can inform, expand, and improve deliberation on todays challenges and policy options.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1013313

Entities

People

  • Cameron Keys

Organizations

  • United States Department of Defense

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Employment
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Administration
  • Public Policy
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

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