Federal Research and Development Contract Trends and the Supporting Industrial Base, 20002015
By (author) Jesse Ellman, Kaitlyn Johnson
Publication date:
12 October 2016Length of book:
76 pagesPublisher
Center for Strategic & International StudiesISBN-13: 9781442279629
As the current U.S. defense budget drawdown has progressed, numerous analysts have expressed concern about the ability of the United States to retain technological superiority, particularly given how research and development (R&D) contracting appears to be in serious decline. To examine what has happened within the federal R&D contracting portfolio, CSIS has analyzed trends in federal contracting. Using federal contract data from the publicly available Federal Procurement Data System, this study explains what has happened to federal R&D contracting and the industrial base that supports it.