SUBCOMMITTEE ON REORGANIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota, Chairman JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota JULIUS N. CAHN, Director of Scientific Research Project LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Hon. JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, U.S. SENATE, September 20, 1961. Chairman, Committee on Government Operations, MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: For the information of the subcommittee and of the Senate, there is transmitted herewith a publication entitled "Coordination of Information on Current Federal Research and Development Projects in the Field of Electronics." The publication is submitted pursuant to the responsibility of the Committee on Government Operations under rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate. Therein, the committee is entrusted with "studying the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency." The importance of study in this area is underlined by this fact: Around $2 billion dollars of taxpayers' funds are involved in federally sponsored electronics research, development, testing and evaluation. A second and more explicit authority for the subcommittee's review was Senate Resolution 255, sections 1-4, 86th Congress, which authorized the committee to study, among other goals, "strengthened cooperation and coordination among Federal agencies." This authority was extended by Senate Resolution 26, 87th Congress. It provided for continued review of "interagency coordination, economy and efficiency." The present publication is a companion print to "Coordination of Information on Current Scientific Research and Development Supported by the United States Government," as issued by the subcommittee, April 17, 1961, and printed as Senate Report No. 263 on May 18, 1961. The present print narrows the focus of the preceding publication. It explores in the one field of electronics the type of problem which the earlier print surveyed for all scientific fields-namely, how to manage information on research and development work in its prepublication stage. As in the case of all prints in the subcommittee's series, the present publication is designed for background purposes; it is not intended to convey the conclusions of subcommittee members. Findings and recommendations are explicitly identified originating with our subcommittee's consultant, or as my pers clusions and those of the |