Fiscal Year	2019
Division	Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Department	Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Investigator(s)	Snider, Keith F.
Sponsor	Director, Acquisition Career Management (Navy)
Summary	Director of Acquisition Career Management for the Navy (DACM) funds the Acquisition Research Program (ARP) to stimulate and support scholarly research in academic disciplines that bear on public procurement policy and management at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). DACM supports an annual acquisition research symposium hosted by ARP to provide a forum for the presentation of scholarly acquisition research and dialogue between scholars, senior acquisition policymakers, students and practitioners. Research papers and presentations are given on recently completed and on-going DACM, Departments of Defense (DoD) and Navy (DON) sponsored projects conducted by researchers at NPS and a variety of other research institutions. Senior DoD/DON acquisition officials serve as panelists or keynote speakers to present their critiques and comments on research papers and priorities. Through critical thinking and research on defense acquisition topics, ARP provides a major source of analytical capability for DoD/DON.
Keywords	acquisition research
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