J. R. KILLIAN, JR. 



From this wide range of review and inquiry, and without 

 stopping to give credit to individual reports, I draw the follow- 

 ing four categories of observations and conclusions which bear 

 upon the efficient use of manpower and resources over the 

 whole spectrum of research and development. 



The first has to do with our progress and position in 

 science and engineering. American science has a scope and 

 depth unequaled at present anywhere in the world. Today 

 we are technologically strong and are growing stronger. I do 

 not believe that we have lost our technological leadership or 

 that we are predestined to lose it in the future. But with all 

 our present strength, we have work to do and weaknesses to 

 correct to underwrite our future strength and to realize our own 

 full potential. My next three groups of observations emphasize 

 some of the requirements we must meet to continue strong. 



There is, for example, the requirement for better balance 

 and proportion in our national research and development pro- 

 gram. Of the government's total research and development 

 budget, about 6 per cent is earmarked for basic research. The 

 remaining pays for applied research and the development of 

 an almost endless list of "things," such as jet planes, missiles, 

 nuclear reactors, satellites, insecticides, vaccines, drugs, rocket 

 fuels, computers, and space suits. Since the Korean War, the 

 amount of money for the development of "things" has increased 

 more, in proportion, than the funds available for basic research. 

 Happily, in the past year-and-a-half, basic research has been 

 gaining. It is not that more funds are needed for the whole 

 range of research and development. We need a more balanced 

 distribution. 



Another kind of research has also been undernourished. I 

 refer to "analytical engineering" or applied or supporting re- 

 search — the sophisticated scrutiny of available knowledge to 

 determine what sort of "things" are possible to build and which 



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