Start Date
4-1978 8:00 AM
Description
President Nixon, in his March 16, 1972 Message to Congress, challenged the nation to harness science and technology to strengthen our economy and improve the quality of life in the U. S. A portion of his statement addressed the issue of using federal R & D laboratories to assist in solving local and state problems.
In June of the same year, over 200 leaders from all levels of government, industry and academia met in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the National Conference on Inter^ governmental Science and Technology Policy. The goal of the Conference was to identify actions essential for effective use of public and private science and technological resources to aid harried state and local officials in providing services at an acceptable level of cost. One of the principal resolutions passed by the Conference called for the use of federal laboratories to solve local problems. This Conference was the forerunner of numerous subsequent studies by such agencies as 0MB and NSF, plus numerous articles, all calling for the application of federal technology toward the solution of civilian problems.
Department of Defense Technology Transfer -Civilian Uses of Military Know-How
President Nixon, in his March 16, 1972 Message to Congress, challenged the nation to harness science and technology to strengthen our economy and improve the quality of life in the U. S. A portion of his statement addressed the issue of using federal R & D laboratories to assist in solving local and state problems.
In June of the same year, over 200 leaders from all levels of government, industry and academia met in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the National Conference on Inter^ governmental Science and Technology Policy. The goal of the Conference was to identify actions essential for effective use of public and private science and technological resources to aid harried state and local officials in providing services at an acceptable level of cost. One of the principal resolutions passed by the Conference called for the use of federal laboratories to solve local problems. This Conference was the forerunner of numerous subsequent studies by such agencies as 0MB and NSF, plus numerous articles, all calling for the application of federal technology toward the solution of civilian problems.
Comments
Federal Laboratories For Technology Transfer
Session Chairman: George F. Linsteadt, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California
Session Organizer: William H. Brown, Sciences, Technology and Applications Office, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Florida