May 13-15, 2008 — 5th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium

Call for Researchers

NPSBAA08-004

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Acquisition Research Program

Naval Postgraduate School

Open until Friday, 13 June 2008

Primary objective is to attract outstanding researchers and scholars to investigate topics of interest to the defense acquisition community. The program solicits innovative proposals for defense acquisition management and policy research to be conducted during fiscal year (FY) 2009 (1 Oct 08 -30 Sep 09).

Defense acquisition management and policy research refers to investigations in all disciplines, fields, and domains that (1) are involved in the acquisition of products and/or services for national defense, or (2) could potentially be brought to bear to improve defense acquisition. It includes but is not limited to economics, finance, financial management, information systems, organization theory, operations management, human resources management, and marketing, as well as the “traditional” acquisition areas such as contracting, program/project management, logistics, and systems engineering management.

This program is targeted in particular to U.S. universities (including U.S. government schools of higher education) or other research institutions outside the Department of Defense.

The Government anticipates making multiple awards up to $110,000 each for a basic research period of twelve months. NPS plans to complete proposal evaluations and notify awardees in early September 2008.

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