This is abstracted from from Peter Harsha’s CRA Computing Research Policy Blog.

“The National Academies have released their long-awaited report, Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research . This is the study that was requested by the Senate Armed Services Committee in the FY 2004 Defense Authorization Act after they raised questions about the state of DOD basic research (”6.1″ research in defense parlance) as part of the hearings leading up to the bill. The NAS panel’s recommendations mirror a lot of things we’ve been saying about the DOD research — mainly that it’s become less basic and it’s declining in both absolute dollars and as a percentage of the overall DOD science and technology budget. The full report doesn’t seem to be online (I get an error at the NAS link above), but here’s a copy of the summary. I haven’t read the full report so far, but from the executive summary the recommendations are worth reading: …”

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