ABSTRACT
The public documents that record this process also enable it to occur. They are initiated by the DoD agencies that purchase R&D and by the laboratories that perform it. Although numerous, these documents form only a partial record of the procurement process, which also entails electronic transmissions and unrecorded conversations. Moreover, many of the records are private and proprietary and, therefore, inaccessible. Like the glyphs on Mayan architecture, however, these documents constitute the public record of a culture; they are what we have to work with.
