Download or read book Highlights from the Air Force Scientific and Technical Information Program written by Currie S. Downie and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussed are the objectives of the program and the responsibilities of the Air Force Focal Point, assigned to OAR in July 1967, as follows: represent the USAF at DDR and E Focal Point Meetings; improve the availability and expedite the dissemination of scientific and technical information; review and revise Air Force regulations as needed, and maintain an inventory of scientific and technical information activities, facilities, and personnel. Discussed are various experimental studies being conducted by OAR: SCAN (selected Current Aerospace Notices), Clearinghouse Announcements in Science and Technology, Tech Barriers Documentation Study, and the Time-Shared Computer Study. Also briefly listed are some of the COSATI (Committee On Scientific And Technical Information, Federal Council for Science and Technology) activities of OAR. The Defense Documentation Center (DDC) plans for the future are explained, including primary distribution of publications and remote access to the DDC data store. Finally, the latest information on DDC user charges is presented.
Download or read book Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under mandate of Section 253, Study and Report on Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes, of the Fiscal Year 2002 National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Air Force contracted with the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct the present study. In response, the NRC established the Committee on Review of the Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes-composed of academics, active and retired industry executives, former Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) civilian executives, and retired general officers with acquisition and science and technology (S&T) backgrounds. The committee was to review the effectiveness of the Air Force S&T program and, in particular, the actions that the Air Force has taken to improve the management of the program in recent years in response to concerns voiced in numerous study reports and by Congress. The committee's principal charter was to assess whether, as a whole, the changes put in place by the Air Force since 1999 are sufficient to assure that adequate technology will be available to ensure U.S. military superiority. The committee conducted four open meetings to collect information from the Air Force and its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), the U.S Navy, the U.S. Army, and DoD. A great many factors influence any judgment of the S&T program's sufficiency in supporting future warfighter needs; these factors include threat assessment, budget constraints, technology opportunities, workforce, and program content. Given the relatively short time available for this study and considering the detailed reviews conducted annually by the SAB, the technical content of the S&T program was necessarily beyond the committee's purview. Rather, the committee focused on S&T management, including areas that have been studied many times, in depth, by previous advisory groups. Besides addressing technical content, those prior studies and congressional concerns highlighted four overarching S&T issues: advocacy and visibility, planning, workforce, and investment levels. In response, the Air Force instituted changes in S&T management. The NRC is requested to conduct a study to determine how changes to the Air Force science and technology program implemented during the past two years affect the future capabilities of the Air Force. Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes reviews and assess whether such changes as a whole are sufficient to ensure the following: A. That concerns about the management of the science and technology program that have been raised by the Congress, the Defense Science Board, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and the Air Force Association have been adequately addressed. B. That appropriate and sufficient technology is available to ensure the military superiority of the United States and counter future high-risk threats. C. That the science and technology investments are balanced to meet near-, mid-, and long-term needs of the Air Force. D. That the Air Force organizational structure provides for a sufficiently senior level advocate of science and technology to ensure an ongoing, effective presence of the science and technology community during the budget and planning process. This report also assess the specific changes to the Air Force science and technology program as whether the biannual science and technology summits provide sufficient visibility into, and understanding and appreciation of, the value of the science and technology program to the senior level of Air Force budget and policy decision makers.
Download or read book Review of the U S Department of Defense Air Space and Supporting Information Systems Science and Technology Program written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-09-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1940s, when Vannevar Bush and Theodore von Karman wrote Science, the Endless Frontier and Toward New Horizons, respectively, there has been a consensus that strong Department of Defense support of science and technology (S&T) is important to the security of the United States. During the Cold War, as it faced technologically capable adversaries whose forces potentially outnumbered U.S. forces, the United States relied on a strong defense S&T program to support the development of technologically superior weapons and systems that would enable it to prevail in the event of conflict. Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has relied on its technological superiority to maintain a military advantage while at the same time reducing the size of its forces. Over the past half-century, creating and maintaining a technologically superior military capability have become fundamental to U.S. national security strategy, and investment in S&T has become a basic component of the defense budget. In late 1998, Congress asked the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study, in cooperation with the National Research Council (NRC), on the S&T base of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Congress was particularly concerned about areas of the S&T program related to air systems, space systems, and supporting information systems. Its concern was based on the Air Force's reduction of its S&T program from the largest of the three military service programs to the smallest. Congress also wanted to ensure that the Air Force maintained an appropriately sized S&T workforce. In late 1999, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology asked the NRC to conduct a study to explore these issues.
Download or read book Air Force Office of Scientific Research Research Highlights Sept Oct 99 written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Highlights is published every two months by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. This newsletter provides brief descriptions of AFOSR basic research activities including topics such as research accomplishments, examples of technology transitions and technology transfer, notable peer recognition awards and honors, and other research program achievements. This report includes two articles: development of the laser and the success of the Airborne Laser Program.
Download or read book Review of the Air Force Scientific and Technical Information Activities written by Currie S. Downie and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report presents a general overview of the scope and characteristics of the formal elements of the scientific and technical information programs in the Air Force, as well as a discussion of specialized activities such as the international data exchange, information analysis centers, R and D in information and computer sciences, the technical libraries, the Air Force interaction with the Defense Documentation Center, and the Scientific and Technical Liaison Offices. The program is operationally decentralized but guided by centrally formulated policies. The principal goal is to insure speedy and effective access to scientific and technical information and data for Air Force scientists and engineers. The management philosophy underlying the overall objectives rests on the following criteria: use of existing resources, services adaptable to local environment, local control of budgets, encouragement of face-to-face communications, adaptation and use of new information technologies, and continuing education of users. (Author).
Download or read book The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation 1945 1965 written by Stephen B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Office of Scientific Research 1995 Research Highlights written by Air force office of scientific researchbolling afb dc and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the third annual issue of Research Highlights based on our monthly editions of significant achievements and accomplishments. Although this edition contains a small selection of AFOSR's many research successes in 1994, they are representative of our mission: to sponsor and sustain basic research; to transfer and transition research results, and; to support Air Force goals of control and maximum utilization of air and space. The highlights provide brief descriptions of AFOSR's research investment accomplishments, examples of technology transfer, and technology insertion. Their purpose is to provide Air Force, DOD, government, and private sector officials interested in science and technology management with brief accounts illustrating how AFOSR supports the Air Force and DOD missions and the national posture in technology. AFOSR's integrated management approach fosters bilateral and multilateral partnerships between Air Force, university and industry researchers and Air Force, defense and commercial industrial customers. Last year, our nearly 2,000 active research tasks spawned more than 260 significant technology or product applications, more than one-half of these encompassed direct transfers to U.S. industry, with military as well as commercial benefits. The diverse and wide-ranging scientific efforts in this volume share the common denominator of quality research. Some of the research highlighted here will find its way into currently deployed Air Force systems; some will not reach maturity until we enter the 21st century.
Download or read book The Limitless Sky written by Air Force History and Museums Program (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the Air Force Scientific and Technical Information Activities June 1969 written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and technology the making of the Air Force Research Laboratory written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history documents a watershed event within the United States Air Force -- the creation of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). As the "high technology" service, the Air Force has always searched for ways to continuously improve its science and technology enterprise. In that context, the making of AFRL was not a bureaucratic accident. Rather, it was the product of a complex mixture of historical forces and pressures at work that convinced people at all levels that the time was ripe to bring about fundamental reform in how the Air Force conducts its business of science and technology. In terms of significance, a wealth of past studies has focused on almost every aspect of the "operational" side of the Air Force. But there has been a scarcity of available scholarly studies that address the far-reaching implications of science and technology. This book is a major contribution that helps fill that gap. Organization and infrastructure are critically important components of the total science and technology picture. Thus, the manner in which its laboratory system is organized is a critical factor in the Air Force's ability to assure that it is investing in and delivering the most relevant technologies possible. This book documents how the Air Force moved from 13 separate labs to one consolidated lab. The narrative is divided into two parts. Part one addresses the reasons why the Air Force decided to consolidate its far-flung science and technology enterprise into one lab. How the new lab was implemented is the focus of part two. This study is especially revealing because the reader is given access to the inner workings and struggles of a major Air Force organizational restructuring through interviews with key individuals who participated directly in the decision-making process to establish a single lab. A chronology of the lab's creation is included. (19 tables, 22 figures, 19 photographs).
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Download or read book NASA SP 7500 written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of the Air Force Scientific and Technical Information Activities written by United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Office of Scientific Research 1994 Research Highlights written by Air force office of scientific researchbolling afb dc and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the second annual issue of Research Highlights based on our monthly collection of significant achievements and accomplishments. Although this edition contains only a small selection of AFOSR's many research successes in 1993, the highlights are representative of our mission to "sponsor and sustain basic research, to transfer and transition research results, and to support Air Force goals of control and maximum utilization of air and space." The highlights provide brief descriptions of research accomplishments, examples of technology transfer, technology insertion, and dual-use applications. It is a well-documented historical fact that basic research has always been important to the Air Force in maintaining its technological edge. Maintaining this edge has become even more crucial today as the Air Force faces the challenges and uncertainties of the emerging new world order and the fundamental reshaping of the Air Force itself. Some of the research highlighted here has been "transitioned" to the developmental research phase while others have found their way into Air Force systems. In fiscal year 93 alone, there were more than 160 significant transitions from basic research to applications. Other examples will not reach maturity until the 21st century. Some of the research featured here will also contribute to dual-use technology in the civilian sector. The diverse and wide-ranging scientific efforts in this volume share the common denominator of quality research. They are also evidence of how, in consonance with its motto "Building Partnerships With Excellence and Relevance," AFOSR continues to fulfill its important role as a technology transition broker. AFOSR will continue to provide the Nation with the basic knowledge for new and advanced technologies to meet the challenges of the future.
Download or read book Research Highlights Sep Oct 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Highlights is published every two months by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. This newsletter provides brief descriptions of AFOSR basic research activities including topics such as research accomplishments, examples of technology transitions and technology transfer, notable peer recognition awards and honors, and other research program achievements. The porpose is to provide Air Force, DoD, government, industry and university communities with brief accounts to illustrate AFOSR support of the Air Force mission.
Download or read book Progress in Scientific and Technical Communications written by Federal Council for Science and Technology (U.S.). Committee on Scientific and Technical Information and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
