General Public 
Project Abstract

Soldiers in the U.S. Military proudly serve their country, knowing that many risks are involved. It is up to individuals and training gear to ensure that these soldiers are well equipped and well trained. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) is a government agency focused on providing the highest quality training for the U.S. Military. To do this, NAWCTSD hosts collaboration events between companies and the government. This allows companies to help the U.S. Military innovate faster.    

          This project aims to provide a return on investment (ROI) analysis on the collaboration events. Since they are funded by the government there is no profit. This makes it hard to use a regular ROI analysis. Therefore, our team calculated an untraditional ROI for the Procurement Administrative Lead Time events held by NAWCTSD. This showed that the current process is saving them $10,000.

  We also created a recommendation list of data for future use. This list of data is used to do more in-depth ROI analysis for each collaboration event. This includes collecting data on company involvement with contracts. NAWCTSD can now carry out larger and more detailed ROI projects with minimal work once this project has ended. 

Collecting data is the same as collecting profits for this project. NAWCTSD continues to collect large amounts of data. This can then be used with our provided plan to get the ROI analysis they want. This project serves as the first step to show politicians and high-ranking officers the value of NAWCTSD’s collaboration with companies. The ROI can potentially increase funding and provide overall better training simulations for the U.S. Military.