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...years since the war, the policy has continued. The DOD agencies--the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research--have been "anxious to support research that had as little connection as possible with any governmental activity," Gentry said...
Bradley worked out his telefactoring plans while on the job at the Institute for Defense Analyses, an Arlington, Va., "think tank" that exists almost entirely on Defense Department contracts. The idea seemed so promising to DOD officials that they encouraged him to present it at the AIAA meeting, hoping to stimulate further development of telefactoring devices by private industry. That development, Bradley believes, is inevitable. He is already looking forward to the day when controllers will operate telefactor infantrymen from the safety of bunkers and casualties will be counted in machines...
...Creation of a central Department of Defense Contract Audit Agency to consolidate the contracting functions of all three services into one office under the DOD comptroller...
...penalty for the latter is considerable bother, since it involves a detailed report to the Pentagon within 48 hours, even if the report is only about that model airplane that a manufacturer gave to Junior. Reason: "Favors, gratuities, or entertainment bestowed upon members of the immediate families of DoD personnel are viewed in the same light ... no matter how innocently tendered or received...
...such promise, though, McNamara insists that the first step must be to find out whether humans can stay in top form in space and perform difficult duties better than nonhuman instruments. This is by no means sure. Said Albert C. Hall, DOD's space expert, "The astronaut will have to do more than throw a switch, which is about all they have done in Mercury." The partisans of such manned space stations must also prove that an alert enemy cannot destroy them with a small fraction of the effort that it took to put them in orbit. Says skeptical...