The Technology Promotion and Protection Decision Tool: Introduction and User Manual

The U.S. government has developed hundreds of approaches to promote and protect critical technologies and their associated industrial base, and the sheer number and diversity of these programs, policies, and initiatives present a logistical challenge for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The authors of this report describe a tool designed to help DoD decisionmakers-upon discovering a risk or vulnerability to a critical technology-quickly and effectively determine relevant approaches to mitigate the problem.