Portfolio Analysis and Management for Naval Research and Development

Abstract

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has the responsibility for defining and sponsoring research and development (R&D) necessary to support both the current and future requirements of the Navy and Marine Corps. To accomplish this mission ONR must fund a broad spectrum of research, ranging from basic research needed to open up new options for the long-term, to very near-term advanced technology development to support the current fleet. Moreover, ONR must make its R&D funding decisions in the presence of uncertainty: uncertainty in required capabilities, uncertainty in performance requirements, and uncertainty in the feasibility of a technology or R&D approach. This report describes the adaptation of an R&D portfolio management decision framework recently developed by RAND (Silberglitt and Sherry; 2002), PortMan, to support ONR's R&D decision-making, and the demonstration of its use via a case study evaluation of 20 sample ONR applied research projects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427476

Entities

People

  • Carolyn Wong
  • Emile Ettedgui
  • Lance Sherry
  • Michael Tseng
  • Richard Silberglitt

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Data Transmission
  • Electronic Mail
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Research
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Network Protocols
  • Organizational Structure
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research