APPENDIX I 



EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 8807 



Establishing the Office of 



Scientific Research and Development 



IN THE Executive Office of the President 



By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes 

 of the United States, and in order to define further the functions and duties of 

 the Office for Emergency Management with respect to the unhmited national 

 emergency as declared by the President on May 27, 1941, for the purpose of as- 

 suring adequate provision for research on scientific and medical problems re- 

 lating to the national defense, it is hereby ordered: 



1. There shall be within the Office for Emergency Management of the Executive 

 Office of the President the Office of Scientific Research and Development, at the 

 head of which shall be a Director appointed by the President, The Director shall 

 discharge and perform his responsibilities and duties under the direction and 

 supervision of the President. The Director shall receive compensation at such rate 

 as the President shall determine and, in addition, shall be entitled to actual and 

 necessary transportation, subsistence, and other expenses incidental to the per- 

 formance of his duties. 



2. Subject to such policies, regulations, and directions as the President may 

 from time to time prescribe, and with such advice and assistance as may be neces- 

 sary from the other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, the 

 Office of Scientific Research and Development shall: 



a. Advise the President with regard to the status of scientific and medical 

 research relating to national defense and the measures necessary to assure 

 continued and increasing progress in this field. 



b. Serve as the center for mobilization of the scientific personnel and re- 

 sources of the Nation in order to assure maximum utilization of such 

 personnel and resources in developing and applying the results of scientific 

 research to defense purposes. 



c. Co-ordinate, aid, and, where desirable, supplement the experimental and 

 other scientific and medical research activities relating to national defense 

 carried on by the Departments of War and Navy and other departments 

 and agencies of the Federal Government. 



d. Develop broad and co-ordinated plans for the conduct of scientific research 

 in the defense program, in collaboration with representatives of the War 

 and Navy Departments; review existing scientific research programs for- 

 mulated by the departments of War and Navy and other Agencies of 

 the Government, and advise them with respect to the relationship of their 

 proposed activities to the total research program. 



