[PDF] Federally Funded Rd Centers eBook

Author : Craig I. Fields
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1998-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780788148095

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A review of the 11 Federally Funded R&D Centers (FFRDC) -- The Aerospace Corp., MITRE Corp., Rand Corp. (3), CNA Corp., Institute for Defense Analysis (2), Logistics Management Institute, MIT, and Carnegie-Mellon Univ. The review addresses the objectives and guidelines for appropriate scope of work, organizational structure, and size of the FFRDCs; compliance with the annual DoD Management Plan; the sponsor's management processes; the level and appropriateness of non-DoD work; and the thoroughness of the FFRDC five-year review process. Includes recommendations for improving management practices.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0309062780

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The past 50 years have witnessed a revolution in computing and related communications technologies. The contributions of industry and university researchers to this revolution are manifest; less widely recognized is the major role the federal government played in launching the computing revolution and sustaining its momentum. Funding a Revolution examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government's role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs. It reviews the economic rationale for government support of research, characterizes federal support for computing research, and summarizes key historical advances in which government-sponsored research played an important role. Funding a Revolution contains a series of case studies in relational databases, the Internet, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality that demonstrate the complex interactions among government, universities, and industry that have driven the field. It offers a series of lessons that identify factors contributing to the success of the nation's computing enterprise and the government's role within it.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 1995-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 030917600X

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The United States faces a new challengeâ€"maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting science and technology despite fiscal stringency during the next several years. To address this change, the Senate Appropriations Committee requested a report from the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine to address "the criteria that should be used in judging the appropriate allocation of funds to research and development activities; to examine the appropriate balance among different types of institutions that conduct such research; and to look at the means of assuring continued objectivity in the allocation process." In this eagerly-awaited book, a committee of experts selected by the National Academies and the Institute responds with 13 recommendations that propose a new budgeting process and formulates a series of questions to address during that process. The committee also makes corollary recommendations about merit review, government oversight, linking research and development to government missions, the synergy between research and education, and other topics. The recommendations are aimed at rooting out obsolete and inadequate activities to free resources from good programs for even better ones, in the belief that "science and technology will be at least as important in the future as they have been in the past in dealing with problems that confront the nation." The authoring committee of this book was chaired by Frank Press, former President of the National Academy of Sciences (1981-1993) and Presidential Science and Technology Advisor (1977-1981).