DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 



OVERVIEW— OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF 

 DEFENSE FOR RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING 



Submitted by Dr. George Gamota, Staff Specialist for Research, Office of thie 



Director, Electronics and Phiysical Sciences 



DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 



Prepared by Dr. Ivan R. Hers finer Jr.. Assistant Director for Research), Directorate of Army 



Researcfi 



DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY 



Submitted by Dr. Robert J. Lundegard, Tecfinlcal Director (Acting), Office of Naval Researcfi 



DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE 



Submitted by Dr. Kennethi L Jordan. Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research) and 



Development, Air Force 



DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY 



Submitted by Lt. Col. William A. Wfiitaker, Special t\/}illtary Assistant to tfie Director of Defense 



Advanced Researcfi Projects Agency 



THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OVERVIEW 



Science and technology in this country have 

 grown substantially during the past 30 years and 

 can be correlated with the support of basic re- 

 search by the Federal Government. The military 

 departments recognized early the value of basic 

 research and developed methods for the support 

 of researchers, which during and after World War 

 II played a major part in the Federal research 

 effort in science and engineering. 



During the sixties, the National Aeronautics 

 and Space Administration (NASA) and the Na- 

 tional Science Foundation (NSF) began to support 

 basic research, following to a large degree the 

 methods and patterns developed earlier by the 

 military departments. Because of this new sup- 

 port, the Department of Defense's (DOD's) share 

 of federally supported research dropped from 

 over 60 percent to slightly over 20 percent in this 

 period even though the actual dollar amount was 

 increasing. In the late sixties and early seventies 

 most of the previous patterns of growth in the 

 support for basic research became stabilized and 

 levels of support were even decreased if one 

 takes into account inflation factors. (See Figure 1 .) 



Present Program 



The present DOD research program provides a 

 long-term foundation upon which to develop op- 

 tions for the solution of national security prob- 

 lems. It includes research in such fields as phys- 

 ics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering, and 

 those aspects of the environmental, biological, 

 medical, and social sciences that are unique to the 

 military. About 40 percent of the research pro- 

 gram is performed in the DOD laboratories, 40 

 percent in universities and colleges, and most of 

 the remainder in industry. Table I shows the dis- 

 tribution of research funding for all three per- 

 formers. 



Five major organizations in DOD have major 

 responsibilities for the research program: the 

 Army, Navy, and Air Force, the Defense Ad- 

 vanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). and 

 the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for 

 Research and Engineering (USDRE). USDRE 

 (formerly the Director of Defense Research and 

 Engineering) has the overall responsibility to set 

 funding levels and provide policy and guidance 

 for the DOD research and development programs. 



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