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HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



Don K. Price, dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. 

 C. Guv Suits, vice president and director of research, General Electric Co. 

 Jerome B Wiesner, president, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



The Research Management Advisory Panel met with the subcommittee 

 members three or four times a year to discuss issues and procedures 

 involving the relationship between government and science. The panel 

 also aided the subcommittee in identifying and isolating problems 

 requiring priority attention by the Congress. Michael Michaelis of 

 Arthur D. Little, Inc., a research management consultant firm, was 

 retained by the subcommittee as executive director of the Research 

 Management Advisory Panel, commencing in 1964. 



By the end of 1963, the Legislative Reference Service of the Library 

 of Congress had published two studies which outlined the aids and 

 tools available for Congress in the area of science and technology, with 

 suggestions on how to strengthen them. The committee itself also 

 published a study on "Scientific-Technical Advice for Congress: Needs 

 and Sources." The committee underlined the rising importance of the 

 subject on which it was focusing by noting that in 1964 total Federal 

 expenditures on research and development had risen to $14.9 billion — 

 as contrasted to $12.2 billion when establishment of the committee was 

 first under consideration. This staggering total dwarfed the $74 million 

 being spent in 1940. 



SCIENCE POLICY RESEARCH DIVISION 



Largely through the influence of the Daddario subcommittee, the 

 Library of Congress established a Science Policy Research Division in 

 1964. This new division had one of its closest relationships with the 

 entire Committee on Science and Astronautics, and it also helped 

 strengthen the scientific and technical assistance needed by all Members 

 of Congress. 



On November 5, 1963, the Daddario subcommittee assembled most 

 of the regular members of the Panel on Science and Technology for a 

 two-day Government and Science Seminar. Special guests were Dr. 

 Wcrnher von Braun, Dr. Alan M. Thorndike of the Brookhaven 

 National Laboratory, and Dr. S. Fred Singer, Director of the National 

 Weather Satellite Service. At the opening of the meeting, Daddario 

 mentioned that Representative Riehlman, the ranking Republican 

 on the subcommittee, and the staff "have been meeting with a number 

 of scientists in Government and out in order to chart our course." 

 He added that the hearings were pointing toward trying "to locate 

 and identify the major problem areas which exist or may soon exist 

 within the science relationship of the Federal Government to industry, 



