Science and Technology in Development Environments - Industry and Department of Defense Case Studies

Abstract

The Missile Defense Agency tasked IDA to study and assess management methods and organizational structures that have proven successful in the development of technologies with an emphasis on the roles of longer term science anc technology work and radical innovation. This report provides detailed cases studies of large private companies that have been consistently technically innovative and defense programs that undertook large-scale systems developments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA429056

Entities

People

  • Christopher W Baker
  • Paul Collopy
  • Peter Cannon
  • Richard Van Atta
  • Robert Bovey

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Early Warning Systems
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Software Engineering