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This publication provides critical recommendations for managing the DoD’s 130,000 person Science and Technology workforce through a period of growing fiscal and geopolitical ambiguity. The report outlines a strategy that: prioritizes lessons learned through hands-on experience; cultivates practices that identify and support the most promising trends in technology and research; promotes advocacy for worthy programs, and; develops a process for ensuring competent “third parties” determine a fair price for acquisition and development. It concludes by urging the DoD return to a prudently managed, conservative S&T strategy that emphasizes workforce recruitment and training, adequate funding for research and development, and increased engagement with colleges and universities.

Document Type

Occasional Paper

Topic(s)

Emerging Science and Technologies

Publication Date

8-2013

Publication

Defense and Technology Paper

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, D.C.

Keywords

science, engineering, technology, research and development, R&D

Chance favors only the prepared mind:” The Proper Role for U.S. Department of Defense Science and Engineering Workforce

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