Department of Defense In-House RDT/E Activities

The Departments of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force provide comprehensive data on the finances, manpower and facilities of their organizations that perform research, development, test and evaluation (RDT+E). Individual missions, current important programs, and their functions and equipment capabilities are described. The statistical data relate to the past and current fiscal years, i.e., 1970 and 1971. This edition is the fifth of a series that started in 1966. All information was submitted on key-punched cards and the report's preparation was thus entirely automated, with some manual correction of typographical errors and clarification of obscure abbreviations and contractions. The computer that produced the printed pages had no ampersand (+) and, instead, usually printed a plus sign (+) for the work 'and'. All current DoD RDT+E activities are indexed in Appendix 1A. Some new organizational names appear in this issue, and others have been changed since last year; for this information, see Appendix 1B. Appendix 11 containes the definitions given in DoD Instruction 7700.9 and employed as the basis for these data. Appendix 111 lists selected standard abbreviations and acronyms.