Establishment of a Commission on Science and Technology: Report on S. 1136U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 86 pages |
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Page 3 - Chairman; one representative from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President...
Page 62 - 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 25 - Board, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
Page 62 - In 1962 when a reorganization plan established the Office of Science and Technology within the Executive Office of the President , through transfer of authorities formerly vested in the National Science Foundation.
Page 45 - Yet the plain fact is that science has become the major Establishment in the American political system : the only set of institutions for which tax funds are appropriated almost on faith, and under concordats which protect the autonomy, if not the cloistered calm, of the laboratory.
Page 25 - With inputs from the President's Science Advisory Committee, the Federal Council for Science and Technology, the National Science Foundation and...
Page 4 - Research ... is supported not only to accomplish agency missions — usually as a forerunner to development — but also to increase the broad body of scientific and technical knowledge which underlies the future advancement of the Nation's welfare, economic growth, and security.
Page 77 - I don't believe that a single Department of Science with the responsibility for all of the scientific activities of the Federal Government would be a workable arrangement because most of the scientific activities of the individual agencies are carried out in support of their specific missions. If, as has been proposed, a less comprehensive Department of Science were created — by consolidation of the Atomic Energy Commission, National Science Foundation, National Bureau of Standards, and other agencies...
Page 21 - Part I of the reorganization plan establishes the Office of Science and Technology as a new unit within the Executive Office of the President; places at the head thereof a Director appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and...
Page 7 - To provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease, maintenance, operation, and utilization of automatic data processing equipment by Federal departments and agencies.