Date of Award

9-1993

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Abstract

This research accomplished three major tasks. First it examined familiarity and usage rates for fifteen published R&D project selection methods in the context of a larger general issue, the Air Force's ability to develop and exploit technology. Wright Laboratory served as the focus for the research effort and displayed a greater tendency to use formal methods in 1993 than was shown in prior research. The laboratory's overall preference for simpler models like Checklist, Scoring, and Sorting led to a recommendation that authors familiar with the other techniques communicate them in engineering and management vernacular. Secondly, the study introduced a technological paradigm, lateral airfoils. The methodology employed one of three new lateral airfoil applications and used it to meet the third initiative. Finally, the study used a placebo lateral airfoil research project to gauge Wright Laboratory's decision making process. The study revealed thirty discrete criteria and successfully reduced these to seven determinant attributes indicative of overall laboratory support for applied research efforts.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GLM-LSY-93S-4

DTIC Accession Number

ADA273946

Comments

Presented to the Faculty of the School of Logistics and Acquisitions Management of the Air Force Institute of Technology

The authors' Vita pages are omitted.

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