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preparation. The Panel emphasizes the importance of developing
non-lethal agents and of broadening the scientific baee of the BW and
CW research program. In addition to its chairman, the Panel included
seven members.
13.
Communications
The Panel of the PSAC under Dr. Baker submitted a report on
May 1, 1959, on the subject of coordination of military communications
development. It called attention to the fragmentation, duplication, and
overlapping authority among various agencies evidenced in present
Service plans for development of world-wide communications facilities.
In addition to its chairman, the Panel included four members.
14, Defense Organization
The Committee was invited in January of 1958 by the Secretary of
Defense to submit suggestions from the Special Assistant and from
members of the PSAC concerning organizational aspects of research
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and development in the Department of Defense. Freliminary suggestions
were submitted on January 22, 1958. They emphasized the importance
that our principal military objectives be clearly focused and that each
have strong and clearly focused scientific and technical support. The
importance of coordination of scientific activities at policy-making
levels and the need for competent policy advice at these levels by
scientists and engineers were also emphasized. A post of Under
Secretary of Defense responsible for all scientific and technological
activities in the DOD was recommended.
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broad range of suggestions was submitted to the President by the
Special Assistant on January 28, 1958.
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by the White House on March 26, 1958, entitled Introduction to Outer
Space". A significant feature of the Panel report was the recommendation
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In preparation for a presentation before the National Security Council
on March 6, 1958, a series of reports and memoranda were generated
by the Space Science and Technology Panel. This was in response to a
suggestion by the President that the PSAC develop U. S. objectives and
organization for the exploration of space. The Panel sought to give
guidelines based on scientific considerations which would be useful in
making policy decisions on what the national program and organization
arrangements for space science and technology should be. A general
account of the Panel views is contained in a primer by the PSAC issued
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