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A Precursory Documents for the Statement of Task
Pages 163-166

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... Appendix A Precursory Documents for the Statement of Task This appendix contains the texts of the statement of task in the prospectus and the specific requirements in the statement of work in the contract. This lengthy material was a major source of the abbreviated statement of task that the committee synthesized in Chapter I
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... will conduct a thorough assessment of the RDEC. The NSC will identify those scientific and engineering R&D programs it perceives as critical, identify those research areas which should be conducted in-house, and identify alternative programs whereby the Technical Director can leverage limited scientific and engineering resources with academic and industrial partners and other Federal laboratories.
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... assess the RDEC's organization, structure and adequacy of personnel, funding, equipment, and facilities to develop and produce military products, review the basic research programs (core technologies) that support each business area to insure that the technology base will support the applied research and development projects assigned to the center and to assess Natick's success in retaining critical expertise during the RDEC's restructuring so that it can continue to conduct these basic research programs, and assess customer satisfaction with the products developed and the commercial marketability of dual-use products.
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... to conduct World Class research and development for military products and systems? How effective is the current organizational structure, and what new organizational approaches (e.g., elements of the Federated Lab Concept)
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