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B-167034 1 (1974-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagrh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMS ACQUISITION DIVISION B-167034 FEB 1 4 1974 The Honorable LM096759 The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: On March 20, 1973, we advised you that we were initiating a survey of the Department of Defense's jDOD's) and the mili- tary seryices, efforts to plan ,for, the qUppOK of innovative research. This survey was to ascertain whether DOD and the military services have established and/or are maintaining a deliberate relationship between the support of lo, trm, high- r sk,, ientie (innpov.te) , research, programs designed to produce entirely new military equipment, systems, and pro- cesses and the support of _vlisk9( vgj.tionar.) rese.a-ch programs designed to solve relatively short-term technical barrier problems. Such a relationship would necessarily rely upon the characterization and categorization of these two types of research for measurement purposes. We interviewed officials from the Army; Navy; Air Force; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and the Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering. The services support both long-term innovative and short- term evolutionary research, but make no attempt to distinguish the extent of effort going into such types of research to main- tain the desired balance between them. None of the service officials interviewed agreed exactly with the former Director of Defense Research and Engineering's characterization of innovative and evolutionary research. The various officials, howeyer, generally agreed on defining broad categories of re- search as cited above and on the apparent need for more inno- vative research.

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