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Article: Defense Technology Development: Management Process Can Be Strengthened for New Technology Transition Programs.
- Article from:
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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GAO-05-480 June 17, 2005
The Department of Defense (DOD) and Congress both recognize that Defense technology innovations sometimes move too slowly from the lab to the field. Three new programs have been recently created in DOD to help speed and enhance the transition of new technologies. A report accompanying the fiscal year 2003 National Defense Authorization Act required GAO to review two of these programs--the Technology Transition Initiative (TTI) and Defense Acquisition Challenge Program (DACP). The first is designed to speed transition of technologies from DOD labs to acquisition programs and the second is designed to introduce cost-saving technologies from ...