EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 

 OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 



WASHINGTON, D C 20506 



December 10, 1992 



Dear Mr. President: 



As Chairman of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and 

 Technology, I have the pleasure of transmitting to you the report In the National Interest; 

 The Federal Government and Research-Intensive Universities . This is a worthy companion 

 to the report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology titled 

 Renewing the Promise: Research-Intensive Universities and the Nation , which I transmitted 

 to you on November 23. Taken together, these reports provide an unprecedented and 

 invaluable perspective on the government-university relationship, representing as they do 

 both Federal and private sector viewpoints. 



The importance of research-intensive universities to the nation derives from their joint 

 mission, namely providing education at the most advanced levels and performing much of 

 the fundamental research upon which our technological progress ultimately depends. The 

 two reports should be central to national discussions about the current needs and future 

 roles of those institutions. 



For the first time, representatives of seventeen research-supporting Federal agencies worked 

 together to develop a joint perspective on that relationship. Also for the first time, PC AST 

 and FCCSET are co-publishing related reports developed along parallel lines. The 

 FCCSET report provides the perspectives of the individual agencies, as well as a 

 coordinated interagency view, on the government-university relationship; comments on a 

 number of current issues affecting that relationship; and makes a series of 

 recommendations that are generally in consonance with those of the PCAST report. I am 

 confident that the two reports, taken together, will have a significant and far-reaching 

 impact on many matters affecting the relationship. 



The agency representatives who participated in the FCCSET Working Group are listed in 

 the report. I would like to thank all of them, and particularly Dr. Walter Massey, who 

 chaired the Group so effectively. 



Sincerely Yours, 



D. Allan Bromley — ^ | 



Director 



The President 

 The White House 



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