Rate stabilization at Navy industrial fund research and development activities
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Authors
Kramar, Joel David
Solberg, Ernest Arnold
Subjects
Rate stabilization
Navy laboratories
Stabilized rates
Industrial funds
Navy laboratories
Stabilized rates
Industrial funds
Advisors
Tibbitts, J.C.
Date of Issue
1976-12
Date
December 1976
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Recently the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) directed that all DOD industrially funded activities bill their customers on the basis of stabilized rates. Industrially-funded R&D activities are included in the policy change.
The writers address the subject of stabilized rates at R&D activities. The writers (1) identify the policy change, (2) trace its emergence in
the DOD organization and (3) assess potential impacts.
The writers conclude that stabilized rates are more appropriate for on-R&D activities than for R&D activities. However, stabilized rates are workable in the R&D environment as long as it is recognized that the R&D workload is essentially a level-of-effort concept, and as long as minimal adjustments to locally established rates are made at higher levels.
Sources of information included official correspondence and interviews at selected Navy Laboratories and other NIF activities.
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Administrative Sciences
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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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.