Reauthorization of Commerce Department Technology Programs: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session ... May 20, 1988 |
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Page 12 - Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to appear before your committee.
Page 4 - to foster, promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce
Page 36 - Federal spending for structural ceramics and composites R&D is nonmilitary in nature, including most of that funded by the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the National Bureau of Standards, and the Bureau of Mines.
Page 11 - Chairman. With your permission, I would like to summarize my remarks and submit the full text of my testimony for the record. You will note that in my written text, I enclose a letter outlining the...
Page 6 - I would like to thank this Committee for giving me the opportunity to come before you today and testify in behalf of the Florida Tomato Industry...
Page 5 - Bureau's overall goal is to strengthen and advance the Nation's science and technology and to facilitate their effective application for public benefit.
Page 60 - ... of essential programs that will not be duplicated fully by the private sector. The services provided by the Centers for Building Technology and Fire Research are invaluable to an important sector of our economy, the building industry.
Page 58 - During hearings in recent years numerous statements were filed on behalf of a variety of organizations that stressed the valuable role performed by the Centers for Building Technology and Fire Research.
Page 5 - NTIS is the central source for the public sale of Government sponsored research, development and engineering reports and other analyses prepared by Federal agencies, their contractors or grantees, or by special technology groups. NTIS also is a central source for federally generated machine processable data files.
Page 4 - The Secretaries of State and Commerce and the Director of the National Science Foundation shall develop a central mechanism for the prompt and efficient dissemination of science and technology information developed abroad to users in Federal laboratories, academic institutions, and the private sector on a fee-for-service basis.