Many civil-military R&D projects involve multiple organizations and therefore need an integrated approach to project management. In Korea, the SE-based technical review process has been used in weapons systems R&D, following the Defense Acquisition Program Management Regulations and its guidebook. Its use in general national R&D projects has been less common. This paper reports on a three-year civil-military R&D project where the lead organization chose to apply the SE-based technical review process and modified it to suit the project's year-by-year development cycle. Beyond the standard SRR, SFR, PDR, CDR, and TRR stages, additional year-specific reviews such as CDR2, TRR2, CDR3, and TRR3 were introduced. Monthly meetings ran alongside these reviews as a continuous management mechanism. By the analysis date, 41 Action Items had been recorded — 37 closed and 4 still open. This combined approach helped support stage-based verification, kept issue management going throughout the project, and gave decision-making a consistent basis.

• Jihoon Bong(Department of Industrial Engineering, Kongju National University, Agency for Defense Development) | 봉지훈 (국립공주대학교 산업공학과, 국방과학연구소)
• Kil-Soo Jeong(Agency for Defense Development) | 정길수 (국방과학연구소)
• Yong-Up Jang(Agency for Defense Development) | 장용업 (국방과학연구소)
• Seungil Choi(Department of Industrial Engineering, Kongju National University) | 최승일 (국립공주대학교 산업공학과) Corresponding author