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Best Practices: Elements Critical to Successfully Reducing Unneeded RDT&E Infrastructure

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Jan. 8, 1998
Report No. NSIAD/RCED-98-23
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Summary:

The federal research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) establishment is in transition. The missions of its research and development laboratories and test and evaluation centers are being redefined while these agencies compete for scarce federal dollars. As future pressures to reduce discretionary spending increase, a greater share is devoted to operating and maintaining an aged, inefficient, and costly infrastructure at the expense of research and development. This report (1) examines the condition of existing infrastructure, (2) analyzes approaches used by organizations outside of the federal government to realign RDT&E infrastructure, and (3) compares those approaches to federal agency efforts. GAO focuses on efforts by the Departments of Energy and Defense and NASA to streamline their RDT&E infrastructure because they represent about 72 percent of all federal investment in research and development and own most of the RDT&E infrastructure.

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