Federally Funded R&D Centers

Observations on DOD Actions To Improve Management Gao ID: T-NSIAD-96-117 March 5, 1996

The Defense Department (DOD) established an internal advisory group to review, and recommend improvements to, DOD's management of its federally funded research and development centers. Its work resulted in an action plan, which was provided to Congress in May 1995. In February 1996, DOD updated the status of its action plan. This testimony focuses on the following key issues presented in the plan and discussed in the status update: (1) developing guidelines to ensure that management fees provided to the centers are based on need and detailed justification; (2) defining core work appropriate for the centers; (3) establishing criteria for the acceptance of work outside the core by the centers' parent corporation; and (4) creating an independent advisory committee to review DOD's management, use, and oversight of its centers.



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