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In d e x 137 percent of R&D funds allocated to private firms, 106 Putt’s comments, 109 reorganization into four functional divisions, 94–95 separation from Air Materiel Command, 79–80 space-based R&D for military applications, 94 strategic ballistic missile force development and production, 89–90 technical program directories, 82 transfer of Air Force Armaments Center to, 86–87 Western Development Division, 89 Air Staff Applied Research Section establishment, 69 assessment of AFSC laboratories, 102 concern about Soviet air power, 83 endorsement of von Kármán’s recommendations, 77 R&D, 69–70, 72, 79 Air Technical Service Command (ATSC), 74n18, 91 Aircraft catapults, 56, 56n63 Aircraft Radio Laboratory, 73n13 Airplane Engineering Department, 73 Airplane Engineering Division, 73 Albacore research vessel, 64 Allen, General Lew, 105 AMC. See Air Materiel Command; Army Materiel Command. Anderson, Lt. Gen. Samuel, 95 Antisubmarine warfare, 41, 58–59 Applied Research Section, 38, 69, 69n7, 78 ARDC. See Air Research and Development Command. Armament Test Facilities Laboratory, 87 Army Aeronautical Division, 68 arsenal system functions, 2, 11 Cold War R&D, 7 competition for scientists and engineers to staff arsenals, 20n28 content of R&D in arsenal system, 21–33 Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, 19 distribution of R&D funds to private organizations, 17n21 private-sector R&D role, 109 proving grounds, 12n3 R&D, 7–8, 11–15, 110 R&D after World War II, 15–21 reorganization of the early 1960s, 19 repair and storage facilities, 12n3 Research and Development Division, 17, 18 research budget for 1946, 17 See also specific arsenals, divisions, and offices. Army Air Corps allocation of funds for R&D in 1939, 75n21
138 so u R c e s o f we a p o n sy s T e m s In n o v a T Io n In T h e depaR TmenT o f defense Army Air Corps (Continued) competition from private sector for scientists and engineers, 75n23 Office of Scientific Research and Development, 75 postwar expansion of in-house R&D, 68 pre–World War II R&D, 67–68 renamed Army Air Forces, 68 separation of R&D from production, 77–78 World War II expansion, 74 Army Air Forces (AAF) Air Technical Service Command, 91 budget, 80 force-in-being and force-of-the-future conflict, 69 German jet propulsion laboratory reassembly, 85–86 strategic bombing, 68 Army Air Service, 68, 73 Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), 22n33 Army Materiel Command (AMC) centralization of weapons acquisition and, 34 establishment, 19, 34 merger of weapons acquisition process into, 19 two-tiered R&D organization, 19–20 Army Ordnance Department, 70, 81n36 Army Research Office, 9, 18–19, 18n24, 38 Army Science Advisory Panel, 18 Army Signal Corps, 8, 12n4, 20, 68, 70, 73, 73n13, 91n70 Arnold, General Henry evaluation of civilian and military aeronautics, 75–76 naming of Arnold Engineering Development Center, 71 Project RAND establishment role, 76n25 Ridenour Report and, 79 Scientific Advisory Group study, 76–77 Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Air Engineering Development Division renamed as, 71 aircraft propulsion system research, 96–97, 106–07 diversification of testing and evaluation, 97 German jet propulsion laboratory reassembly and, 85–86 high-speed engine testing, 85 Minuteman testing, 96 origins, 85 research focus, 9, 71 rocket boosters for NASA’s shuttle orbiter, 97 rocket propulsion system testing, 96 testing and evaluation of air-breathing engines, 96 wind-tunnel technology, 82, 86 ARPA. See Advanced Research Projects Agency. Arsenals
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