, who are then used as a staff resource. The main factor contributing to the development of WPK is communication, especially … of systems-level information. Cultural information-sharing is an essential pre-condition for the development of WPK in …

. Unfortunately, their model has the restriction that communication is only costly in the direction of customer to supplier. This … paper extends their model by introducing two-way communication costs. It shows that the level of communication cost in the …

mathematical model that treats testing as an activity that generates information about technical and customer-need related problems …

as an issue for the Federal response to disasters. Finally, distinct successes of collaboration and integration of common …The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has faced numerous challenges within the realm of Geospatial Information Systems … integration of commercial GIS technologies within the DoD and the speed, openness, and scale this expertise can bring is discussed …