Forces Shaping the U.S. Academic Engineering Research Enterprise (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Defense Budgets and Academic Research
Defense Budgets and Academic Research
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) budget has actually been going up, and I will explain what is happening and how.
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The packaging program is developing manufacturing technologies for multichip modules, or MCM, in which several individual chips are interconnected in a single mechanical package. The flat panel display research is developing a variety of display technologies and their associated manufacturing technologies.
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We also have a program in simulation-based design for ships; and a new program called Maritech, which is modeled after SEMATECH, is trying to help the ship-building industry. In our Precision Strike investment area, a major program called War Breaker focuses on detecting and targeting critical mobile targets.
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Information technology is now the key technology at ARPA. Two of our nine offices are devoted to nothing but information technology, and every office in the agency is either a developer or a major user of information technology.
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For many technologies, such as information technology, the most effective way to insert this technology into DOD systems was to make it available commercially. There have been a couple changes in the way we operate: We make a more conscious effort to look at both the defense and the commercial potential of our investments, and we are becoming more conscious of some of the business decisions that will affect commercialization of a technology or product.
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For DOD, in particular, as we downsize and as the procurement budget decreases, the corresponding overhead caused by the accounting requirements, military specifications (MILSPECS) , extensive documentation, and various things that have driven the cost up have not come down proportionately.
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SOURCE: Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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It is getting harder to do the accounting because of the TRP program, and I will explain that in just a minute. Figure 4 shows the university funding as a percent of the total ARPA budget, and you'll notice that it has more or less leveled off at about 17 percent of our total budget.
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25 20 15 Percent 10 5 0 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 Fiscal Year FIGURE 4 Percent ARPA budget allocated to universities, 1978 to 1993. SOURCE: Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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SOURCE: Advanced Research Projects Agency. 100 Proposed 80 Selected 60 Percent 40 20 0 Development Deployment Manufacturing Education & Training FIGURE 6 Percent of TRP proposals and funded projects with at least one academic institution participating.
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nearly 100 percent of the proposals in manufacturing education and training contained at least one university. If you look at the total number of organizations that participated in the TRP -- universities, companies, national labs -- you will find that over 10 percent of the development participants and nearly 40 percent of the manufacturing education and training participants were universities.
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These are problems that have a broad and direct impact on the nation's competitiveness and the well-being of its citizens. These problems include manufacturing, health care, and education, among others.
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