This chapter examines a number of aspects of defense R&D, including: mechanisms — design competitions, and independent R&D subsidies — used by the US government to encourage firms to invest their own funds in defense R&D; theory and evidence concerning both the private and social benefits of,...

Economic theorists have devoted considerable attention to analyzing models of closely related incentive contracting problems that arise in the study of public procurement, private procurement, regulation, the theory of the firm, the theory of organizations, and managerial compensation. The...