Preliminary Findings: Is the Ratio of Investment Between R&D to Production Experiencing Fundamental Change?

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McCormick, Rhys
Hunter, Andrew
Sanders, Gregory
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2018-04-30
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04/30/18
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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With the advent of the information age, both commercial industry and the Department of Defense are moving towards complex R&D-intensive systems over the simpler, mass-produced systems of the industrial age. This paper uses budgetary and program data to better understand the historical trends in the relationship of production costs to development costs in complex acquisition programs.
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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SYM-AM-18-070
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Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research Program
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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