Federal Policy, Plans and Organization for Science and Technology, June 1974 |
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AAAS subcommittee activities Administration arrangements assessment basic research Chairman Committee on Science concern Congress Congressional coordination Council for Science defense departments and agencies economic effective effort established evaluation Executive Office executive privilege Federal agencies Federal Council Federal Government functions funds goals Guyford Stever House Committee industry institutions issues Jackson plan July 1973 hearings major ment military National Science Board National Science Foundation national science policy national security nology Office of Science OLIN E operation Organization for Science organizational Policy Research President President's Science Adviser President's Science Advisory priorities problems proposed PSAC Public Policy questions R&D programs recommendations Reorganization Plan research and development responsibilities role Sawhill Science Advisory Committee Science and Astronautics science and tech science and technology scientific and technical scientific community scientists social staff Stever STPO suggested Technology Policy Office testimony tion U.S. Congress Vannevar Bush White House
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Page 125 - The Bureau of the Budget in the Executive Office of the President is hereby designated as the Office of Management and Budget.
Page 142 - 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 143 - 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 125 - Chairman; one representative from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President...
Page 194 - Council would be composed of policy level individuals from Federal departments and agencies. The dedicated efforts of the many outstanding scientists and engineers, who, as members and consultants of the President's Science Advisory Committee and the Office of Science and Technology, over the years, have worked to help shape the directions of science and direct the efforts of science and engineering to the solution of national problems are widely recognized and appreciated. It is expected that many...
Page 125 - State, and local agencies and from private organizations and individuals) shall be supplied to the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President (this will serve as making environmental statements available to the President).
Page 152 - The Foundation will continue to originate policy proposals and recommendations concerning the support of basic research and education In the sciences, and the new Office will look to the Foundation to provide studies and information on which sound national policies in science and technology can be based.
Page 9 - None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act may be used to carry out any research project or study unless such project or study has a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation.
Page 172 - Scientific research, of course, has never been amenable to rigorous cost accounting in advance. Nor, for that matter, has exploration of any sort. But if we have learned one lesson, it is that research and exploration have a remarkable way of paying off— quite apart from the fact that they demonstrate that man is alive and insatiably curious.
Page 152 - However, the Foundation, being at the same organizational level as other agencies, cannot satisfactorily coordinate federal science policies or evaluate programs of other agencies. Science policies, transcending agency lines, need to be coordinated and shaped at the level of the Executive Office of the President, drawing upon many resources both within and outside of the government. Similarly, staff efforts at that higher level are required for the evaluation of government programs in science and...