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

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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 governmentwide, and free up resources necessary for scientific programs and related equipment.

Author(s):
No Author(s) Identified
Author Organization(s):
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIV
Supplementary Note:
Report to Congressional Requesters.
Pagination:
0095

Security Markings

DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
GAO/NSIAD/RCED-98-23
Monitor Series:
XD
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_7.2.1_Mitigate Lethal Effects; JCA_7.2_Mitigate; JCA_7_Protection; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_4.2.1_Manage Supplies and Equipment; JCA_4.2_Supply; JCA_4.5_Operational Contract Support; JCA_4.5.2_Contractor Management; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_5.1.1_Establish and Maintain Unity of Effort with Mission Partners; JCA_5.1_Organize; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_1.3.1_Personnel and Family Support; JCA_4.7.1_Real Property Life Cycle Management
Modernization Areas:
Space
Communities of Interest:
Biomedical
Descriptor(s):
*UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, *RESEARCH FACILITIES, *COSTS, *INFRASTRUCTURE, TEST AND EVALUATION, ORGANIZATIONS, RESOURCES, LABORATORIES, RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Field(s)/Group(s):
Economics and Cost Analysis, Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods
Keyword(s):
GAO REPORTS
Report Date:
1998 Jan 01
Creation Date:
1998 Mar 04