The Management of Research Institutions: A Look at Government LaboratoriesScientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1984 - 306 pages |
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... effect , NACA ended by becoming captive to the interests of its sponsors . " Pressed by the need to get the next generation of fighter aircraft into operation or the next prototype into production , both the services and industry tended ...
... effect , NACA ended by becoming captive to the interests of its sponsors . " Pressed by the need to get the next generation of fighter aircraft into operation or the next prototype into production , both the services and industry tended ...
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... effect that it never would come to a definite end . Yet the system , such as it was , was exceedingly flexible . From the modest beginnings of the Washington Naval Shipyard and the Coast Survey , the Federal Government had gradually ...
... effect that it never would come to a definite end . Yet the system , such as it was , was exceedingly flexible . From the modest beginnings of the Washington Naval Shipyard and the Coast Survey , the Federal Government had gradually ...
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... effects of weightlessness on various organisms were inconclusive . Also , Ames , in common with other NASA centers , was beginning to feel the pinch of funding cutbacks and layoffs . In mid - 1967 , there were 2 176 government employees ...
... effects of weightlessness on various organisms were inconclusive . Also , Ames , in common with other NASA centers , was beginning to feel the pinch of funding cutbacks and layoffs . In mid - 1967 , there were 2 176 government employees ...
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... effect , many changes in a center's research agenda occur in just so inconspicuous a way . One final point pertains to what constitutes productivity in a research and development environment . Defining productivity calls to mind the ...
... effect , many changes in a center's research agenda occur in just so inconspicuous a way . One final point pertains to what constitutes productivity in a research and development environment . Defining productivity calls to mind the ...
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... effect , the directorate structure built a bridge between those doing the basic and applied research on aircraft - drag and note that the same people who hit. FIGURE 37. - An F - 106 aircraft showing the " coke bottle " fuselage shape ...
... effect , the directorate structure built a bridge between those doing the basic and applied research on aircraft - drag and note that the same people who hit. FIGURE 37. - An F - 106 aircraft showing the " coke bottle " fuselage shape ...
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Page 28 - Act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislature of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 28 - Act of 1862 was a comprehensive measure, providing for "the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college [in each State] where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 265 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 272 - Act to be to establish and vigorously conduct a comprehensive, national program of basic and applied research and development, including but not limited to demonstrations of practical applications, of all potentially beneficial energy sources and utilization technologies, within the Energy Research and Development Administration.
Page 267 - Foundation should develop and promote a national policy for scientific research and scientific education, should support basic research in nonprofit organizations, should develop scientific talent in American youth by means of scholarships and fellowships, and should by contract and otherwise support long-range research on military matters.
Page 72 - Weinberg sought to diversify, while maintaining good relations with the Atomic Energy Commission and the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
Page 214 - Laboratory Lawrence Liver-more National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory Pacific Northwest Laboratory...
Page 259 - Research projects which represent investigation directed to discovery of new scientific knowledge and which have specific commercial objectives with respect to either products or processes.
Page i - Anxiety for the future time disposeth men to inquire into the causes of things; because the knowledge of them maketh men the better able to order the present to their best advantage.
Page 88 - What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.