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4 Imperatives for Global S&T Engagement and Implications for DoD
4 Imperatives for Global S&T Engagement and Implications for DoD
Pages 81-88
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But the requisite retooling should be accomplished in an environment in which leadership across a dynamic, interconnected, and expanding global S&T enterprise is no longer dominated by the United States. Findings and Recommendations Finding I Sustained mission success will require the DoD to selectively maintain technological superiority while effectively leveraging advances occurring throughout the global S&T landscape.
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The heads of the research enterprises for the Services should work collaboratively to develop a regional S&T engagement strategy, together with clearly defined outcomes and measures, to focus the activities of overseas field offices. Ultimately, the over-arching strategy should identify key stakeholders in the defense research enterprise (DRE)
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Important first steps include: The ASD/R&E, in concert with the S&T ExCom, should drive a culture across the Defense Research Enterprise that values external ideas and capabilities by consistently communicating and reinforc ing the importance of global awareness and engagement. The ASD/R&E, in concert with the S&T ExCom, should require each COI to share its assessment of relevant global research results with the entire Defense Research Enterprise, and to provide DRE researchers an opportunity to contribute to ongoing assessment ef forts.
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Important first steps include: The ASD/R&E, in concert with the R&E ExCom, should establish policy and provide support to enable DRE researchers to attend relevant technical conferences and workshops. The heads of the research enterprises for the Services should work cooperatively to staff field offices with the scientific, linguistic, and cultural expertise needed to effectively implement their collective regional S&T engagement strategy.
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At a time of increasing pressure on DoD budgets international collaborations allow DoD to get significantly more reseach impact for the same research dollar. The Services should, in alignment with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering strategy described in Recommendation 1, establish clear expectations and measurable objectives for their respective global engagement efforts.
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Finding IV The committee did not identify a single "best" approach to maintaining global S&T awareness, but rather believes an integrated suite of methodologies is needed. Opportunities exist for DoD to adopt or adapt practices in use by other institutions and sectors as it implements its strategy to maintain awareness of global advances in science and technology.
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A variety of analytically based approaches are in use across DoD by organizations seeking to characterize the evolving global S&T landscape. Such approaches include bibliometric mapping to identify research hot-spots, analysis of patent filings within specific fields to discern institutional strengths, and exploratory application of emerging tools that may enable more efficient machinebased analysis of extremely large data sets.
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defense research enterprise, will be driven by technological advances made by other S&T organizations around the world. The findings and recommendations described in this report provide an important first step for the DoD to reexamine its current portfolio of international S&T activities and programs and to better leverage global research collaboration, engagement, and awareness efforts occurring across the full defense research enterprise.
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