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...hour, Mr. X has demonstrated why the United States government is shaking up the National Science Foundation (NSI)--the nation's top agency for funding basic research. Over whelming foreign technological competition over the past decade, especially from Japan, has produced a growing sense of concern among government officials that we may be losing the battle for good. Moreover, there is increasing, evidence that Japanese corporations are not ready to relent, as they guide further ahead of their American counterparts, particularly in robotics, microelectronics and material science...
...counter commercial decline, government officials have turned to the NSF to push universities, research institutions and businesses to return us to glory days of high tech superiority. In particular, they are goading the NSI to clean up its outmoded methods of management and emphasis on short-term profits, and turn instead to a revitalized long term planning agenda. And to top it off, they are driving the NSF to somehow beef up its engineering research programs...
...most significant recent move has been the appointment of Erich Bloch, a former IBM director who is widely regarded as a pure high tech promoter and a leading engineering manager. He has taken the initial step of fashioning a new policy and managerial strategy to make the NSI both a basic research and a technology foundation...
...Track," also with the interests of the NSL at heart, has made two suggestions for its improvement" (1) that it hold regular meetings to discuss problems and tactics; (2) that it cease such "publicity seeking" exploits and Philbrick's. As one who has followed the activities of the NSI, since its foundation with a good deal of interest, let me say that (1) the NSI, has hold small membership meetings every week for the purpose of studying current problems. These meetings were characterized throughout by sincerity and seriousness. (2) The Editor of The CRIMSON should know that only after four...