Assessment of Industry Attitudes on Collaborating with the U.S. Department of Defense in Research and Development and Technology Sharing

Abstract

At the request of the U.S. Department of the Air Force, an assessment was undertaken by the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in conjunction with Trotta Associates to review attitudes of private companies toward sharing new or promising technologies developed for commercial use with the Department of Defense (DoD). The primary goals of the study were: 1. To examine private industry experiences when communicating, interacting, and collaborating with DoD as well as non-defense federal agencies and the private sector, specifically related to research and development (R&D) programs; 2. Based on these experiences, to identify actions DoD agencies can take to encourage more R&D ties between private industry and government, in order to draw on new commercial technologies, thus improving defense technology, eliminating duplicate development programs, and saving materials and resources. BIS designed and conducted the industry survey instrument and collected and entered the responses into the database which was utilized for analysis by Trotta Associates. Surveys were mailed to companies in the following technology areas: Advanced Composites, Power Electronics, Batteries, and Wireless Broadband. The selection of these particular technologies was essentially based on three criteria: 1) areas important to DoD; 2) technologies driven by commercial markets; and 3) areas with different industry structures and market forces. Surveys were sent to 1,022 companies representing the four technologies. After the initial surveys were distributed, the Air Force requested that additional surveys be sent to a special category of defense-supplier companies primarily in the aerospace and electronics field. Forty seven special category companies received surveys. To facilitate analysis, the survey responses were divided into two major sub-groups: defense contractors and non-defense contractors.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA496041

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Department of Commerce

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battery Chargers
  • Chemistry
  • Composite Materials
  • Computer Programming
  • Energy
  • Intellectual Property
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • National Security
  • Power Electronics
  • Space Systems
  • Storage Batteries
  • Supply Chain
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wireless Communications

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space