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"Chance favors only the prepared mind", the proper role for U.S. Department of Defense science and engineering workforce, Timothy Coffey

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"Chance favors only the prepared mind"

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Timothy Coffey

Defense & technology paper, no. 102

the proper role for U.S. Department of Defense science and engineering workforce

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

Introduction -- A simple context for DOD -- "Competence" vice "inherently governmental" -- Implications of complexity and uncertainty for DOD R&D -- DOD as an employer of scientists and engineers -- The bi-lateral monopoly -- Can DOD maintain the necessary in-house S&E competence? -- Comment on the nuclear weapons laboratories -- Conclusions