Earmark - Capabilities Planning Support

Agency:		Department of Defense--Military
Bureau:		Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
Account:		Research, development, test, and evaluation, Air Force (57-3600)
Certifying Official:		Deputy Comptroller Program/Budget
Contact Information:		http://WWW.DOD.GOV 703-697-5131

Capabilities Planning Support

1 recipient will receive $3,184,000. This is a first-time earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Description: The four major tasks for this effort are the following: 1) Extend technology assessment methods to specific Air Force strategic long term challenges to support technology investment decisions; 2) Improve visualization techniques of highly complex analytical problems; 3) Establish a collaboration forum with national leaders to enable capability for identifying innovative technical solutions to complex national problems; 4) Complete and demonstrate a virtual integrated framework prototype of a distributed collaborative environment

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
Wright Brothers Institute, Inc	$3,184		Non-Profit	Dayton, OH