Interagency Coordination of Information: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, Agency Coordination Study (pursuant to S. Res. 276, 87th Cong.), Federal Plans for Improvement in the Design, Management and Use of Scientific, Engineering and Other Information Systems, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - 242 pages |
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Page 24 - Chairman; one representative from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President...
Page 51 - Most funds now spent on research are channeled to private contractors through the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Page 8 - Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of the Interior Department of State Department of Transportation...
Page 55 - Coordination of Information on Current Scientific Research and Development Supported by the United States GovernnentAdministratlvw and Scientific Problems and Opportunities of Central Registration of Research Projects in Science and Engineering.
Page 182 - But in the course of meeting specific challenges so brilliantly, we have paid a price by sharply limiting the scarce scientific and engineering resources available to the civilian sectors of the American economy.
Page 45 - There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers — conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much AS WE MAY THINK less to remember, as they appear.
Page 180 - The ultimate objective of this program is to obtain samples of actual materials from the deeper layers of the earth's crust and from the mantle which lies beneath the crust and constitutes the bulk of the earth. Cores from such depths would...
Page 210 - Canadian issuers whose securities the Commission has reason to believe recently have been or currently are being distributed in the United States in violation of the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933.
Page 185 - Foundation, through such service, .shall (1) provide, or arrange for the provision of indexing, abstracting, translating, and other services leading to a more effective dissemination of scientific information, and (2) undertake programs to develop new or improved methods, including mechanized systems, for making scientific information available.
Page 45 - The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.