Science and Public Policy: National Security 101 



tific community. Here once more the principle emerges that 

 it is real science and not mission-oriented or labeled science 

 which must forever support and invigorate the technology of 

 our defense and security. This the ONR has said long and 

 often. 



Of course there still are occasional hints, sometimes identified 

 acoustically as between a mumble and a grumble, from various 

 contractors and military agencies that scientific revisions in 

 systems development are highly disruptive and too frequent. 

 Even insertion of advance technology, such as has occasionally 

 been forwarded in continuing improvements of nuclear pro- 

 pelled submarines and other vessels (by overseers — or Rick- 

 overseers?) is "complained" to bear heavily on contract sched- 

 ules and production. 



Broadly, however, an historic advance has 

 New Institutions been made in this matter by the creation of 

 for Systems not-for-profit systems engineering and tech- 



Engineering and nical direction institutions and labora- 

 Science Usage tories. These SE/TD resources were spe- 



cially demanded by the rapid scientific 

 options generated during the crucial initiation of our major 

 bomb and missile programs a decade ago. Some were first 

 associated with special industrial groups, such as the Space 

 Technology Division of the Ramo-Wooldridge enterprise. 

 Others did systems evaluation, analysis and synthesis in dis- 

 tinguished activities like the Navy's Operation Evaluation 

 Group and the Air Force's Rand Corporation. Then it became 

 increasingly clear that this issue, of orderly insertion of new 

 findings and critical judgments into the ongoing systems devel- 

 opments, would require a new and special institutional struc- 

 ture, as well as unusual personnel and leadership. Accordingly, 

 various kinds of not-for-profit quasi-public but Defense Depart- 

 ment sponsored and supported enterprises have been founded 

 in the past decade. One important function has been always 

 to assure the matching of military requirements and Defense 

 Department objectives to the technical development and pro- 



