Venture Capital and Strategic Investment for Developing Government Mission Capabilities

Marc Notes: RAND Corporation research report series.--Web page (PDF).; RR-176-OSD.--Cover P. 4.; Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.--Title page.; National Defense Research Institute.--Title page.; This research was sponsored by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute.--Page iii.; Approved for public release;distribution unlimited.--Title page.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-81).; The research was conducted within the RAND National Defense Research Institute ... under Contract; W74V8H-06-C-0002.--Verso of title page. Brief Description: "RAND Corporation research report series."--Web page (PDF). Brief Description: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."--Title page. Brief Description: "National Defense Research Institute."--Title page. Brief Description: "This research was sponsored by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute."--Page iii. Brief Description: "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."--Title page. Publisher Marketing: To address urgent operational needs in a changing threat environment, this report examines one type of government acquisition method, called government strategic investment (GSI). Through a combination of case studies and economic modeling, this research will help government acquisition managers judge the suitability of strategic investment methods for motivating future government mission oriented innovation by private firms." Contributor Bio:  Webb, Tim Tim Webb was born in 1955 and spent most of his formative years in Birmingham, sin city of the industrial Midlands. To say that he attended Medical School there is stretching the truth somewhat but they were eventually kind enough to give him a degree on condition that he went somewhere else. He is now a psychiatrist ministering to troubled minds in Plymouth. He has no interest whatever in treating sexual problems as he finds them all terribly embarrassing. His main interests are self-preservation, Bathams bitter and the quest for a zipless anorak.