It is our belief that the experience of industry is pertinent — that as total scale of operation is increased and made more diversified, more money must be spent on research to insure continued progress. The overall scale of operation of the AEC has been increased; the diversity of operations has been increased; and important new research facilities, requiring substantialbudgets for their full use, “have ‘been furnished. We urge ‘the:oe Commission to make every effort to have ‘the research . . _-bucget fully restored." (Secretary's Note: . Two copies of the statement were transmitted to the General Manager on April 2, 195h, for his use in| attempts to get the budget restored.) (Appendix C, item 3a) OES geet The Committee had considered whether it should prepare a@ more arear elaborate statement containing quantitative research budget comparisons with industry and also justifications of Nfringe",“Basie research by specific examples, It decided not to do so at this time, . The Committee felt that a specific comment should be addressed to the CNR-AEC Joint Prozram Commission on the subject of the ONR-AEC Joint Program. The attrition of the longevity funds, which were now being used by the Navy to keep the program going, was considered very unfortunate. A previously expressed sentiment to the effect that it would be more worthwhile for the AEC to support this program than the construction of new Linear accelerators for heavy ions was reiterated (Dr. Libby and Dr. Wigner). It was agreed to make a statement of regret that the GAC saw no plans on the part of the A= S IVE por ARCH openneg