This memorandum documents the release of the 2020 Census Research and Testing Management Plan. The Research and Testing Management Plan provides direction for the Research and Testing (R&T) activities and decision-making in accordance with the critical success factors identified in the 2020 Program-Level Research and Testing Strategy and with the overall Research and Testing objectives.

This plan provides the overarching management and analysis framework for executing research and testing projects and integrating the results across projects to ensure a solution that reflects the best information available across the Census Bureau, and within the broader community.

Specifically, it defines the high-level research for the life cycle of the program by defining the research questions to be answered,

• resources contributing to the research,
• field test(s) that will inform the answers to the questions,
• status that defines where we are toward the completion of the research,
• completion date or expected decision date, and
• priority placed on the research question.