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Review of the U.S. Department of Defense Air, Space, and Supporting Information Systems Science and Technology Program

Review of the U.S. Department of Defense Air, Space, and Supporting Information Systems Science and Technology Program

Department of Military Science and Technology
National Research Council
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Paperback

Series: Compass

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0309076080
ISBN13: 9780309076081
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: Oct 5 2001
Pages: 81
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.33 Width: 8.36 Depth: 10.80
Language: English

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.

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