Accession Number:

ADA334855

Title:

Best Practices: Elements Critical to Reducing Successfully Unneeded RDT&E Infrastructure.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIV

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1998-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

94.0

Abstract:

This report, in laying out a framework within which changes to the federal RDTE infrastructure can be accomplished and around which debate about the need for those changes can occur, 1 examines the condition of existing infrastructure, 2 analyzes the approaches used by organizations outside of the federal government to realign RDTE infrastructure, and 3 compares those approaches to federal agency efforts. This approach, if implemented fully by federal agencies, could help focus agencies efforts in research and development, reduce unneeded infrastructure government-wide, and free up resources necessary for scientific programs and related equipment.

Descriptors:

• *UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
• *INFRASTRUCTURE
• POLICIES
• COST ANALYSIS
• RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
• FEDERAL BUDGETS

Subject Categories:

• Economics and Cost Analysis
• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE