"Chance favors only the prepared mind" : the proper role for U.S. Department of Defense science and engineering workforce / Timothy Coffey.

Author/creator Coffey, Timothy, 1941- author.
Other author National Defense University. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, issuing body.
Format Electronic
PublicationWashington, DC : Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University, 2013.
Description1 online resource (30 pages) : color illustration.
Supplemental Contenthttps://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo55604
Subjects

SeriesDefense & technology paper ; no. 102
Defense & technology papers ; no. 102. ^A997933
Contents Introduction -- A simple context for DOD -- "Competence" vice "inherently governmental" -- Implications of complexity and uncertainty for DOD R&D -- DOD as an employer of scientists and engineers -- The bi-lateral monopoly -- Can DOD maintain the necessary in-house S&E competence? -- Comment on the nuclear weapons laboratories -- Conclusions.
General noteTitle from title screen (viewed November 12, 2013).
General note"August 2013."
General noteGPO Cataloging Record Distribution Program (CRDP).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Issued in other formPrint version: Coffey, Timothy, 1941- "Chance favors only the prepared mind"
GPO item number0378-H-22 (online)
Govt. docs number D 5.423:102

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