Department of Defense Research & Engineering Strategic Plan, 2007
Department of Defense Research & Engineering Strategic Plan, 2007

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 33

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This strategic plan guides investment and management priorities for the collective Department of Defense (DoD) Research and Engineering (R & E) program. While each Service and Agency with an R & E program has specific responsibilities to plan, program, and execute programs to meet their specific Component's needs, this strategy develops a broader context that fosters coordination of Service and Agency efforts to provide complete and integrated DoD capabilities. Each of the Services and Agencies R & E programs should leverage and complement each others efforts in an integrated program and framework. Indeed, the objective for all efforts within the R & E program should be to meet the larger Defense Department enterprise's needs efficiently and effectively, achieving the greatest degree of collaboration and coordination possible. There is no single priority, principle, capability, or technology that constitutes a successful DoD R & E program; but rather a number of priorities and a portfolio of technologies that support the National Security Strategy and the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). This R & E strategic plan identifies these higher-valued principles, capabilities, and technologies that are used to guide the investment and management of the DoD R & E program. The result is a proactive R & E program.

Basic Research Plan
Basic Research Plan

Author: OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF DEFENSE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING WASHINGTON DC.

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Published: 1999

Total Pages: 76

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The DoD Basic Research Program is the cutting edge of the Defense Science and Technology Program. For more than 50 years, the Department of Defense has relied on its Basic Research Program to maintain U.S. military technological superiority. This objective has been realized primarily by DoD support for research into scientific and engineering areas of proven or potential importance to defense. DoD researchers also keep a watchful eye on research activities all over the world to prevent technological surprise. As the pace of technology quickens, it has become ever more important to maintain the world-class quality of the DoD research program, and to guide, coordinate, and integrate its many diverse activities. The Basic Research Plan (BRP) presents a comprehensive and reasonably complete overview of the whole DoD research program, presents the rationale for it, outlines its contents and organization, tabulates the funding (by program element as well as by discipline), and concludes with a few examples of its extraordinary accomplishments. The bulk of the funding of the DoD research program supports 12 disciplinary areas, managed by 10 Strategic Planning Groups (SPGs). (Two pairs of related disciplines are grouped together under one SPG.) Each discipline is briefly described. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged and is specifically addressed under three program titles: Strategic Research Areas (SRAs), Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), and Government-Industry Cooperative University Research Program (GICUR). The program also supports infrastructure through education and training in science and engineering, and university instrumentation under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).

U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Planning: The Missing Nexus
U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Planning: The Missing Nexus

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1428914714

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This is the pilot in a series of reports on strategic planning conducted within the U.S. Department of Defense. It focuses on the strategic planning responsibilities of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because planning at that level provides the critical nexus between the strategic direction provided by the National Command Authorities and its implementation by the unified combatant commands and military departments. The authors' thorough understanding of the statutory requirements for strategic planning and the interactions between the Chairman's complex strategic planning process and other key DOD planning systems enables them to explicate today's strategic planning challenges and offer insightful recommendations. Strategic planning in the post-Cold War era has proven to be exceptionally problematic. The plethora of national and international tensions that the east-west confrontation of the Cold War in large measure subdued combine now to create a world replete with diverse challenges to U.S. interests. Equally disturbing is the fact that these challenges are not as clearly defined and easily articulated as was the monolithic Soviet threat. The authors point out that the Cold War provided inherent stability in U.S. strategic planning and that the basic elements of a strategic military plan evolved over time. They go on to argue that the elimination of the National Military Strategy Document and the abandonment of the Base Case Global Family of Operation Plans amounted to recision of the Chairman's strategic plan, and that nothing has been developed to take its place.

Space Research: Content and Coordination of Space Science and Technology Strategy Need to be More Robust
Space Research: Content and Coordination of Space Science and Technology Strategy Need to be More Robust

Author: Cristina Chaplain

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1437989020

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Each year, the U.S. spends billions of dollars on space-based systems to support national security activities. The National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2010 requires the DoD and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to develop and issue a space science and technology (S&T) strategy every two years addressing S&T goals and a process for achieving these goals, among other requirements. This report addresses: (1) the extent to which the strategy meets the statutory requirements; (2) if other approaches could be used to enhance the usefulness of the strategy; and (3) the extent of coordination efforts used in developoing the strategy. Illustrations. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.

Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy
Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2013-12-12

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 0309296803

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Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies' National Research Council in September 2013 to enhance Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) prototyping for the new defense strategy. This workshop examined of a wide range of prototyping issues, including individual recommendations for a renewed prototype program, application of prototyping as a tool for technology/system development and sustainment (including annual funding), and positive and negative effects of a renewed program. Prototyping has historically been of great benefit to the Air Force and DoD in terms of risk reduction and concept demonstration prior to system development, advancing new technologies, workforce enhancement and skills continuity between major acquisitions, dissuasion of adversaries by demonstrating capabilities, maintaining technological surprise through classified technologies, and an overarching strategy of overall risk reduction during austere budget environments. Over the last two decades, however, many issues with prototyping have arisen. For example, the definitions and terminology associated with prototyping have been convoluted and budgets for prototyping have been used as offsets to remedy budget shortfalls. Additionally, prototyping has been done with no strategic intent or context, and both government and industry have misused prototyping as a key tool in the DoD and defense industrial base. Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy envisions a prototyping program that encourages innovation in new concepts and approaches and provides a means to assess and reduce risk before commitment to major new programs.

Development Planning
Development Planning

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2014-11-10

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0309313686

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The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has never been smooth. Only the extraordinary efforts of exceptional leadership - in the Air Forces and the wider Department of Defense, in science and in industry - have made the triumphs of military airpower possible. Development Planning provides recommendations to improve development planning for near-term acquisition projects, concepts not quite ready for acquisition, corporate strategic plans, and training of acquisition personnel. This report reviews past uses of development planning by the Air Force, and offers an organizational construct that will help the Air Force across its core functions. Developmental planning, used properly by experienced practitioners, can provide the Air Force leadership with a tool to answer the critical question, Over the next 20 years in 5-year increments, what capability gaps will the Air Force have that must be filled? Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.