Science and Technology Metrics and Other Thoughts

Download or read book Science and Technology Metrics and Other Thoughts written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explores the subject of science and technology metrics and other topics to begin to provide Navy managers, as well as scientists and engineers, additional tools and concepts with which to measure/evaluate/discuss science and technology (S & T) efforts with an eye toward improving S & T funding and to help make the case with emphasis that basic S & T work must be better supported by the U.S. Navy for the long-term good of our nation and its armed forces. The discussion draws material from many sources that cast the subject in a relevant historical context. It also touches on many of the problems inherent in quantifying and evaluating the value of particular S & T efforts whose payoffs are crucial and enormous yet indirect or distant.