Is Ratio of Investment Between Research Development to Production in - Major Defense Acquisition Programs Experiencing Fundamental Change

This CSIS report uses budgetary and program data to better understand the historical trends in the relationship of production costs to development costs in complex acquisition programs.

About the author

Rhys McCormick is a fellow with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS. His work focuses on unmanned systems, global defense industrial base issues, and U.S. federal and defense contracting trends. Andrew Hunter is a senior fellow in the International Security Program and director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS. He focuses on issues affecting the industrial base, including emerging technologies, sequestration, acquisition policy, and industrial policy. Gregory Sanders is deputy director and fellow with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS, where he manages a research team that analyzes data on U.S. government contract spending and other budget and acquisition issues.

Summary

This CSIS report uses budgetary and program data to better understand the historical trends in the relationship of production costs to development costs in complex acquisition programs.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew P Hunter, Andrew P. Hunter, Hunter Andrew P., Rhys McCormick, Rhys Sanders Mccormick, McCormick Rhys, Gregory Sanders, Sanders Gregory
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781538140215
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4021-5
• No. of pages: 70
• Series: CSIS Reports
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Warfare & defence