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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Coffey, Timothy, 1941- author.
- Series:
- Defense & technology papers ; no. 102.
- Defense & technology paper ; no. 102
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Personnel management.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- Scientists in government--United States--Management.
- Scientists in government.
- Engineers in government--United States--Management.
- Engineers in government.
- Personnel management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 pages) : color illustration.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed November 12, 2013).
- "August 2013."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Coffey, Timothy, 1941- "Chance favors only the prepared mind"
- OCLC:
- 862820297
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