FY14 ACQUISITION RESEARCH PROGRAM

The Government is interested in stimulating and supporting scholarly research in academic disciplines that bear on public policy and management in the field of government acquisition. These include economics, finance, financial management, information systems, organization theory, operations management, human resources management, risk management, and marketing, as well as the traditional acquisition areas such as contracting, program/project management, logistics, test and evaluation and systems engineering management.The ARP primarily supports scholarly research through assistance vehicles that will benefit the general public and/or private sector to a larger extent than any direct benefits that may be gained by the Department of Defense (DOD). Studies of government processes, systems, or policies should focus on expanding the body of knowledge, theory and/or research methodologies that are also relevant to processes, systems, or policies outside the DOD. The Government in this BAA is interested only in proposals that will provide unclassified and non-proprietary findings suitable for publication in open scholarly literature. Offerors bear prime responsibility for the design, management, direction, and conduct of research, and exercise judgment and original thought toward attaining the goals within broad parameters of the research areas proposed and the resources provided.