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Each one-word theme included a subset of multiple-word descriptors. The codes were summarized into distinct categories and compared against the final summarized themes produced by the LLMs. For Question 7, the following list of overall themes was created: Commercial Off-the- Shelf (COTS), Systems Engineering, End Users, and Mature Technology. This exact process was used for each survey question. COMET-K Framework for Deductive Categorization A final list of survey themes was desired to summarize all the collected data. This summarized list provided the basis for the recommended blueprint for a future Space Force acquisition doctrine document (Recommendations section). The proposed list followed the acronym COMET-K (Culture, Organization, Motivation, Empowerment, Teamwork–Knowledge), which was adapted from both literature and subjective analysis of the survey data. The study leveraged Richard Clark and Fred Estes’s (2008) Turning Research into Results as the initial basis for categorizing themes. The three a priori themes—knowledge, motivation, and organization—were chosen for deductive data categorization. Clark and Estes’s categorization into three distinct groups is constructive, as it provides a practical framework for analyzing and solving business gaps, performance problems, and opportunities to increase performance. These “Big
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