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4. Selecting Projects and Evaluating the ManTech Program
Pages 22-26

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... We recommend that: The mission of the new ManTech program is to fund the enabling manufacturing technology developments required for the efficient, effective production of future weapon systems that support DOD's strategic plans. OVERALL PROGRAM CHARACTERISTICS The mission will require a new set of criteria for the selection and design of ManTech projects.
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... Funding generic process developments will improve chances for technology transfer and increase the leverage of ManTech funds. Technologies developed with ManTech funding should be potentially useful to many companies, services, weapon systems, and products.
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... INDIVIDUAL PROJECT OBJECTIVES Individual projects in the new ManTech program should be designed to improve the manufacturability of future generations of DOD equipment and systems. In practical terms, projects should contribute to one or more of the following objectives: provide new process capability, improve quality, reliability, or durability, reduce lead times, reduce procurement costs, enhance manufacturing flexibility, · reduce adverse consequences of production (such as accidents, pollution, or toxicity)
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... For all these reasons, in-depth tracking of the results of individual projects is not an affordable, appropriate, or even feasible basis for evaluating the ManTech program. The new ManTech program, instead, should be judged successful if: · it has funded a critical mass of projects that address the manufacturing technologies selected as strategically significant by DOD, and · it has had sufficient technical success to provide the means for more effective and efficient manufacture of DOD weapon systems.
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... Examples include increasing yield of chip manufacture and developing manufacturing technologies that can increase the mean time between failure of circuit boards.
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