dation that is directly pertinent to its own re- 

 search programs. This information is to be provid- 

 ed by the appropriate agency official and will be 

 published with his name as author or as approving 

 official. 



Dr. H. Guyford Stever, Director, Office of Sci- 

 ence and Technology Policy, and Science and 

 Technology Adviser to the President, concurs in 

 the desirability of making the study which will 

 culminate in the tenth Board report. 



You may be interested to know that the following 

 Board Members are serving on the Board Com- 

 mittee on Tenth NSB Report: 



Dr. Grover E. Murray (Chairman) 



University Professor, Texas Tech University 

 Complex 



Dr. T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. (Vice Chairman) 

 President, Georgia-Pacific Corporation 



Dr. Lloyd M. Cooke 

 Corporate Director-Community Affairs 

 Union Carbide Corporation 



Dr. William F. Hueg, Jr. 



Deputy Vice President and Dean, Institute of 

 Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Econom- 

 ics 

 University of Minnesota 



I have asked Dr. C. E. Sunderlin of the National 

 Science Board staff to contact you or your desig- 

 nee in the coming weeks for a discussion on the 

 draft outline of the report, copy enclosed, on 

 some of the questions and issues which will arise 

 in the course of its preparation, and on the tenta- 

 tive timetable for submission of material. 



It is our earnest hope that the tenth Board report 

 will provide the Federal agencies, the Congress, 

 the scientific community, and the country at large 

 with information which is beneficial to the nation- 

 al welfare. 



Sincerely yours, 



Norman Hackerman 

 Chairman 



Enclosure (Exhibit 2) 



Copies sent to names on attached list (Exhibit 3) 



Exhibit 2 — Outline of the 10th National 

 Science Board Report (Dec. 3, 1976) 



BASIC RESEARCH IN THE MISSION AGEN- 

 CIES 



(e 



(f) 



(J) 

 (k) 



(I) 



6. 



8. 



lU. 



II. 



12. 

 13. 



Introduction 



The Mission Agencies: A Factual Survey 



(a) Department of Agriculture 



(b) Department of Commerce 



(c) Department of Defense 



(d) Department of Health, Education, and 

 Welfare 



Department of Housing and Urban Devel- 

 opment 

 Department of the Interior 



(g) Department of Justice 

 (h) Department of Labor 

 (i) Department of State 



Department of Transportation 

 Energy Research and Development Ad- 

 ministration 



Environmental Protection Agency 

 (m) National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- 

 tration 

 (n) National Science Foundation* 

 (o) Smithsonian Institution* 

 (p) Veterans Administration 

 The Mission Agencies: Comparative Analysis 

 and Historical Trends 



Basic Research in Agency Laboratories and in 

 Federally Funded Research and Development 

 Centers 



Agency Support of Basic Research in Indus- 

 try 



Agency Support of Basic Research in Uni- 

 versities 



Agency Support of Basic Research by Fields 

 of Science 



Management of Basic Research in the Mission 

 Agencies 



Effects of Recent Legislation on Agency Sup- 

 port of Basic Research (e.g., the Mansfield 

 Amendment, OSHA requirements. Arms Con- 

 trol Impact Statement requirements) 

 Barriers to Optimum Support of Basic Re- 

 search by the Mission Agencies 

 Interagency Coordination of Basic Research 

 Priorities and Gap Areas 

 Summary 



Appendices 



Suggested Format for Chapter 2 



( 1 ) Statement of agency mission(s). 



(2) Agency definition of basic research. 



*Uata included for completeness and for comparison. 



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