Federal Organization for Scientific Activities, 1962 |
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Administration Advisory and Coordinating Advisory Committee agencies Agricultural Air Force applied research areas Assistant Chief Assistant Director Atomic Energy Aviation biological Branch Budget Bureau Chief of Staff Civil Defense Command conducts research contracts COORDINATING MECHANISMS Corps Council Data on total Department of Defense Deputy Chief Development Activities DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1954 economic electronic employment include blue-collar equipment established evaluation facilities Federal Aviation Agency Field Stations functions funds Geodesy Group Health industrial Institute International Labor Laboratory MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS ment Metallurgy military Missile National Science Foundation Naval Reactors Navy nuclear Ordnance organizations physical plans policies projects provides Radio Propagation reactor reports research and development Research Division research program responsible scientific activities scientific and technical Scientists and engineers Stations and Installations statistical studies supervision Supt survey technical information techniques tion Total number total obligations U.S. Air Force U.S. Army U.S. Government Printing velopment weapons
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Page 421 - SECTION 1. DECLARATION. — Atomic energy is capable of application for peaceful as well as military purposes. It is therefore declared to be the policy of the United States that — a. the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to make the maximum contribution to the general welfare, subject at all times to the paramount objective of making the maximum contribution to the common defense and security: and b.
Page 519 - Foundation is authorized and directed — (1) to develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the sciences...
Page 566 - House as it deems necessary or desirable in connection with the subject matter of such reports; "(B) studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency...
Page 421 - ... b. the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to promote world peace, improve the general welfare, increase the standard of living, and strengthen free competition in private enterprise.
Page 579 - Research and development costs. (a) Basic research, for the purpose of this Subpart 1-15.2, is that type of research which is directed toward increase of knowledge in science. In such research, the primary aim of the investigator is a fuller knowledge or understanding of the subject under study, rather than any practical application thereof.
Page 513 - ... in the mathematical, physical, medical, biological, engineering, and other sciences, by making contracts or other arrangements (including grants, loans, and other forms of assistance) to support such scientific activities and to appraise the impact of research upon industrial development and upon the general welfare...
Page 26 - Major policies, plans and programs of science and technology of the various agencies of the federal government, giving appropriate emphasis to the relationship of science and technology to national security and foreign policy, and measures for furthering science and technology in the nation. (2) Assessment of selected scientific and technical developments and programs in relation to their impact on national policies.
Page 22 - Federal scientific and technological programs, (2) to identify research needs including areas of research requiring additional emphasis, (3) to achieve more effective utilization of the scientific and technological resources and facilities of Federal agencies, including the elimination of unnecessary duplication, and (4) to further international cooperation in science and technology.
Page 566 - Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency; "(3) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to reorganize the legislative and executive branches of the Government; "(4) studying intergovernmental relationships between the United States and the States and municipalities and between the United States and international organizations of which the United States is a member.
Page 579 - Development is the systematic use of scientific knowledge directed toward the production of useful materials, devices, systems, methods, or processes, exclusive of design and production engineering.