Technology Reinvestment Project: Recent Changes Place More Emphasis on
Military Needs (Testimony, 05/17/95, GAO/T-NSIAD-95-167).

This testimony focuses on the Technology Reinvestment Project, an
important Part of the Pentagon's dual-use technology strategy, which
seeks to maintain technologically superior U.S. military forces at an
affordable cost.  Given declining defense budgets and rapid advances in
commercial technology, the Defense Department believes that it must take
advantage of cost-conscious, market-driven, commercial production and
leverage the huge investments in leading-edge technologies made by
private industry.  DOD's dual-use strategy marks a significant change in
the military's procurement philosophy--to move away from reliance on
specialized suppliers serving only the defense market and rely as much
as possible on other commercial suppliers.  This testimony examines the
difference between the Technology Reinvestment Project and other
dual-use programs, the military relevance of selected projects, and
changes in the Technology Reinvestment Project to place more emphasis on
military needs.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-NSIAD-95-167
     TITLE:  Technology Reinvestment Project: Recent Changes Place More 
             Emphasis on Military Needs
      DATE:  05/17/95
   SUBJECT:  Technology transfer
             Military research
             Research and development
             Defense procurement
             Defense industry
             Cost sharing (finance)
             Military materiel
             Dual-use technologies
IDENTIFIER:  DOD Technology Reinvestment Project
             
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