Seven Years of U.S. Defense Acquisition Research: Analysis of Proposals and Projects
Abstract
In 2006, the U.S. Defense Acquisition Executive approved a
program at the Naval Postgraduate School to solicit, evaluate, and fund
proposals for innovative and scholarly acquisition research. This paper
presents an exploratory analysis of proposals from 2007 to the present. It
seeks to provide an understanding of the types and sources of research
proposals, and the extent to which the program’s goal has been achieved.
Cluster and trend analyses classify and examine the data according to
several key aspects, such as: topical area (e.g., contracting, logistics);
research type (e.g., exploratory, hypothesis testing); research design (e.g.,
case study, experiment); and type of analysis (e.g., comparative, statistical).
The results show positive trends, but the number of institutions with interest
in defense acquisition remains low, suggesting that it remains a limited
niche research topic.
Description
The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JOPP-14-04-2014-B001
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