Project Hindsight

Project Hindsight was a retrospective study conducted to determine the effectiveness of several post-World War II weapons research projects.[1] The project was conducted by the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, a sub-agency of the United States Department of Defense. The study ran from 1963 to 1967[2] and the final report was published in October 1969 and released to the public in September 1970.[3] The project had two goals, the first was to identify R&D management productivity and the second was to measure the overall cost-effectiveness of using recently developed weapon systems compared to their predecessors that were in use 10 to 20 years earlier.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kostoff, Ronald N. (1 January 1993). "Research impact assessment. (methods)". Business Economics (via HighBeam Research (subscription required)). Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  2. ↑ Kreilkamp, Karl (January 1971). "Hindsight and the Real World of Science Policy". Science Studies via JSTOR (subscription required) 1 (1): 43–66.
  3. ↑ "Project HINDSIGHT - Summary". Defense Technical Information Center. October 1969. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Project hindsight. A Defense Department study of the utility of research.". Europe PubMed Central. 23 June 1967. Retrieved 17 March 2013.