Special Problems of Military Research and Development

Willis H. Shapley
Additional contact information
Willis H. Shapley: University of Chicago

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1960, vol. 327, issue 1, 68-75

Abstract: Many of the problems of military research and development are not special, either because they are common to other comparable research and development programs or because they are common to other parts of the military pro grams. The military programs are concerned with research, but the main emphasis is on development and on the entire chain of activities necessary to improve the capabilities of the operational forces. The magnitude and complexity of the pro grams are tremendous; these factors, particularly the complex nature and interrelations of their objectives, are at the root of most of the problems of military research and development. The basic organizational problem is to find a way to centralize responsibility for the crucial decisions involving selections among alternative military capabilities and technical ap proaches, while at the same time decentralizing detailed man agement to allow a maximum of freedom and flexibility in the actual conduct of research and development work. The prob lems of military research and development culminate in the budget process. Making the proper allocation to military re search and development within the over-all limitations and dis tributing this amount to individual research and development projects are the most difficult problems of our time.

Date: 1960
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000271626032700109 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:327:y:1960:i:1:p:68-75

DOI: 10.1177/000271626032700109

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().