Acquisition Research Program

This BAA’s 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) 2010 (1 October 2009 - 30 September 2010). In this BAA, the phrase “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. These topics are listed for guidance only. Evidence of Progress: • Awardees must demonstrate evidence of progress via quarterly progress reports in the case of grants. • Awardees must agree to deliver completed technical reports (as a Word file or PDF attachment) to the Technical Point of Contact listed below not later than 30 days after completion of the period of performance. Technical report preparation instructions are provided at http://acquisitionresearch.net/ • Awardees must agree to present their research findings at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Annual Acquisition Research Symposium (http://www.researchsymposium.com/) held in May of each year in Monterey, CA. FY 2010 awardees may elect to present their findings at either the May 2010 or May 2011 symposia (dates to be announced), depending on the anticipated progress of their research efforts. If awardees elect to present at the 2011 symposium, the grant period of performance should be adjusted beyond 12 months to extend through May 2011.