Table 8.2— Membership on federal council for science and technology committee 

 or task forces, 1976 



DEPARTMENT 



OR 



AGENCY 



Committees and Task Forces * 



Domestic Council 

 CSC 



M 



M = Member/members 



= Observer 



•Glossary (Committees and Task Forces) 



1 ARC — Interagency Arctic Research Coordinating Committee; ICCA — Interagency Coordinating Committee for Astronomy; ICAS — 

 Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences; CDTT— Committee on Domestic Technology Transfer (ad hoc); ICET— Inter- 

 agency Committee on Excavation Technology; CFL — Committee on Federal Laboratories; CF R— Committee on Food Research; CGPP- 

 Committee on Government Patent Policy; CI GP — Committee on the International Geodynamics Project (ad hoc); ICMSE — Interagency 

 Committee on Marine Science and Engineering; COM — Committee on Materials; FCSTOC— FCST Operating Committee; CSRD — Com- 

 mittee on Social Research and Development (ad hoc); ITFIMS— Interagency Task Force on Inadvertent Modification of Stratosphere; 

 CWRR — Committee on Water Resources Research. 



Source: Interagency Coordination of Federal Scientific Researcti and Development: Tfie Federal Council for Science and Technol- 

 ogy. Report, Subcommittee on Domestic and International Scientific Planning and Analysis of the Committee on Science and Technol- 

 ogy, U.S. House of Representatives, 94th Congress, GPO, July 1 976. 



the President's Committee on Science and Tech- 

 nology and the Federal Coordinating Council for 

 Science, Engineering, and Technology, and trans- 

 ferred their functions to the President. FCCSET 

 was reestablished by Executive Order 12039, dat- 

 ed February 24, 1978, under the chairmanship of 

 the Director of the Office of Science and Technol- 

 ogy Policy. 



Office of Management and Budget 



The role of the Office of Management and 

 Budget (OMB) (formerly Bureau of the Budget) in 

 the coordination of Federal scientific activities has 

 been important in a number of ways. As final ar- 

 biter, except in rare instances, on the inclusion or 

 exclusion of programs — and on the funds request- 

 ed for them — in the President's budget, the exam- 

 iners and other officials in OMB exercise decisive 

 influence on the research programs of the Federal 

 departments and agencies. The Steelman report 

 had recommended that the Bureau of the Budget 

 establish a unit for reviewing Federal research 

 and development programs; the Bureau created a 

 new functional category, "Education and General 

 Research," for the FY 1948 budget. The first spe- 

 cial analysis of Federal research and development 

 funds appeared as Special Analysis H in the Presi- 

 dent's budget for FY 19.55. 



298 INTERAGENCY COORDINATION OF BASIC RESEARCH 



The Case for an R&D Budget 



Willis H. Shapley discusses the question of 

 whether there should be an "R&D Budget " for 

 the Federal Government:^' 



We shall begin by pointing out that the federal 

 government does not have an "R&D Budget" 

 as such. One may, perhaps, refer to the sum of 

 all the amounts of R&D in the budget as an 

 "R&D Budget," but this is misleading in that it 

 implies essential features of a budget which do 

 not apply to federal R&D. As we shall see, the 

 total amount for R&D is not determined by a 

 specific decision; there is no direct limitation 

 on the total and no single central point of con- 

 trol; and trade-off type decisions within the to- 

 tal are generally not meaningful or feasible 

 between separate major functional elements of 

 the total. 



While OMB may monitor during the annual 

 budget review an "R&D crosscut" summariz- 

 ing all the principal R&D budgets, the total 



'^Research and Development in the Federal Budget, FY 

 1977. a report prepared for the Executive Officer and the 

 Committee on Science and Public Policy, American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, by Willis H. Shapley, 

 AAAS, 1976. 



