The Imperative of Productive R&D

Ellen Chang
7 min readMay 5, 2021

In 2019, the United States spent $55 billion on defense R&D. We know surprisingly little about what that funding has achieved. We have no way of measuring its productivity

A couple of weeks ago- April 22, 2021, George Mason University’s Government Contracting Center held a webinar “Measuring

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