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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
April 23, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
National Academy of Sciences Headquarters Building
Washington, D.C.
2:09 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Apologies for being late. To the
distinguished members of the National Academy - all. And to Dr.
Press and Dr. Ebert, Dr. Raven, Dr. Gordon, Dr. Blout. Now we start
on our side -- Dr. Bromley. (Laughter.) Jim Watkins, a member of
our Cabinet. Admiral Truly, ladies and gentlemen: it really is an
honor to be with you today.
We stand at a very interesting time. And the advice and
council of this academy has been really crucial to American
presidents for well over a century. And I'm proud to be the latest
to come over here to say thank you. We also stand at a moment of
wondrous prosperity. But our wealth goes far beyond the merely
material. Ours is an intellectual prosperity, unprecedented in
history. For that and the health and security it affords this nation
and the world, gratitude is owed to the men and women who have
committed their minds and lives to science.
Those devoted to such work -- its patient searching, its
passionate struggles - have engaged themselves in mankind's most
exalted mission and the mind's manifest destiny: the search for
understanding. That's what it all boils down to.
President Lincoln established this great institution in
the dark hours of our nation's greatest crisis which testifies to
the enduring importance of scientific knowledge. In the years that
followed, your academy has responded to urgent national needs in
times of war and peace.
When this magnificent building was dedicated, Calvin
Coolidge predicted "a new day in scientific research. A new sun is
rising," he said. He was right. The awesome scientific advances of
this century, many of which you've brought about, bring us ever
closer to the understanding that's required of the universe, its
origins, and our own. And science has told us a stranger and more
wondrous story than myth might ever have written for us.
Fourscore and 10 or 20 billion years ago, the theory
goes, it all began with a universe of energy and mass unimaginably
hot and compressed, containing everything that would become what we
now see in the heavens. And then, science tells us, in one
incomprehensively powerful instant, energy and matter of every kind
exploded in every direction. or as a layman might explain it,
somebody hit that cosmic baseball right out of the park. (Laughter.)
But while the pace of cosmic change may have begin with
blinding speed and slowed down since, the pace of our scientific
evolution has been rapidly accelerating. Growing in intensity like a
series of chain reactions in a critical mass of highly-trained
American grey matter touching off scientific and technical
revolutions in every direction.
Today, I wanted to come over here to outline the role
that this administration is playing to advance those revolutions.
Because as the pace of science accelerates, I believe that government
must keep pace -- and will keep pace.
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First, we've moved to better integrate science and
technology into the policy process. We've created an interagency
working group that will more closely link science and technology --
link their considerations with the policy-making process of the
Economic and Domestic Policy Councils.
My Assistant for Science and Technology, Dr. Bromley,
chairs this working group and participates in those councils,
advising them on matters related to science and technology, as well
as serving on the National Space Council.
And we're also committed to greater cross-fertilization
with talent from the private sector, on issues ranging from pure
research to manufacturing performance. So this year we created a
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- experts
whose guidance I value and depend on. I've already had two meetings
with that group, myself. We'll also be looking for counsel from this
academy's new manufacturing forum, just announced this month.
We want to advance America's tradition of innovation, and
we intend to get the biggest bang for the federal buck. And this
administration has also taken steps to reinvigorate the Federal
Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, in
order to assure that the federal investments in R&D programs are
closely integrated across these agency boundaries.
In January, we sent a budget to Congres that includes a
record $71 billion for research and development; an investment in a
stronger economy, a more secure nation and, indeed, a brighter
future. Our administration is committed to investing in the future;
it's evident in the policies we're creating and the budget we're
calling for, with everything from a 24-percent increase for NASA, to
our support of a major agricultural research initiative.
To improve the international competitiveness of American
industry and our overall standard of living, we've called for a
permanent extension of the research and experimentation tax credit.
And we're working to lower the cost of capital and clear away
regulatory burdens so that industry can make the kinds of investment
that the future demands.
Along with the applied, market-driven knowledge so
crucial to this country's competitive future, let me reaffirm two
other priorities:
First -- and I'm going to keep talking about this one --
math and science education. We understand that only with a new
generation of scientists and engineers will your work and America's
preeminence be assured. And so we're engaged in a broad initiative
of reform and restructuring in cooperation with the states. It's an
effort that began with our first-ever education summit with the
nation's governors last fall. And our goal is to make American
students first in the world in science and math achievement by the
end of this century, and to convince more women and minorities to
study science.
We're providing a number of new incentives for students,
like the National Science Scholars Program that I've proposed. We're
opening the doors of federal laboratories, facilities, and agencies
to students and teachers. Our budget increases funding by 26 percent
to over $1 billion for science, math, and engineering education,
through the Departments of Education, Energy, Interior and others, as
well as the National Science Foundation and NASA.
And today, I ask our industrial and business communities
to create new alliances for education, mobilizing more of this
nation's great technical resources for the sake of the future. We
are committed to ensuring that America has the brainpower to remain
at the forefront.
A second priority of this administration is basic
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research the historical wellspring of this nation's well-being.
Science must be able to continue seeking answers to our most
fundamental questions.
For such reasons our budget calls for increasing funding
for the U.S. Global Change Research Program by 57 percent, to over $1
billion. And earlier this year, I reiterated my commitment to double
the National Science Foundation budget by 1993. Today, I want to
call on Congress - put our money where our future is. Put an
increased National Science Foundation budget back on track.
Today, science and technology are assuming a broader and
more interrelated role in human life than ever before. And they're
becoming forces for historical change.
Satellites already help us study the Earth's natural
systems and assess environmental threats. And the mission to Planet
Earth will further our work of global stewardship.
But this past year, in the Revolution of '89, we've also
seen communication satellites, along with video cameras and VCRs and
FAX machines, becoming a potent force for peace both a product of
science and a source of conscience - bringing the actions of nations
before the eyes of the world.
Pictures from Poland and South Africa, scenes on the
Berlin Wall - the eye of technology has proved more powerful than
chisels for breaking down barriers, etching the idea of freedom on
the psyche of humanity, and setting off a wondrous, hopeful,
political chain reaction worldwide.
It's no accident that many of the individuals at the
center of today's worldwide political revolutions share a vision of
the future based on personal freedom, openness, and freedom of
inquiry. These values are shared by our political system and by
science alike. Science, like any field of endeavor, relies on
freedom of inquiry. And one of the hallmarks of that freedom is
objectivity.
Now more than ever -- on issues ranging from climate
change to AIDS research, to genetic engineering, to food additives
-- government relies on the impartial perspective of science for
guidance. And as the frontiers of knowledge are increasingly distant
from the understanding of the many, it is ever more important that we
can turn to the few for sound, straightforward advice.
The National Academy of Sciences is renowned for
objectivity and immunity to partisan pressures. Your impartial
guidance has been invaluable to American presidents and to the
American people for well over a century. So I am confident that the
members of this body, the most distinguished scientists in America,
will continue the tradition that has been the Academy's hallmark.
On this I know we agree, because so many of our technical
and scientific achievemens have been the products of independent
minds. And if the Earth-moving events of 1989 reminded us of
anything at all, it's that complex bureaucracies and centralized
planning don't work well in the governance of societies. We will not
try to impose them on science.
Just as entrepreneurs and small businesses fuel the
growth of the American economy, the backbone of American science is
its brilliant array of individual investigators spread across the
nation.
Among so many, think of Chester Carlson, who invented the
photocopy machine in a little room over a Long Island pub. Or
Barbara McClintock, working alone, who made monumental discoveries in
genetics nearly 50 years ago that the world began to understand only
in the last decade.
Look, of course, I can't claim to comprehend how science
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does its work. Like many, my scientific understanding has been
influenced by those Gary Larson cartoons. (Laughter.) Like the one
where, after detailed calculations, Einstein discovers that time is
actually money.
I'm not here as an expert, but as a believer. And one of
the best things government can do to support the magnificent
creativity and energy of the American technical community is to
locate individual scientists with talent, furnish them with adequate
resources and state-of-the-art instrumentation through agencies
like our marvelous National Institutes of Health, the National
Science Foundation, and then the Departments of Defense and Energy
and others - to help these investigators make progress.
But there are also scientific challenges that, because of
their unprecedented scope and importance, demand unusual support and
international cooperation. Already, the European Space Agency,
Japan, and Canada are making hardware contributions valued at more
than $7 billion for Space Station Freedom, a key component of our
Space Exploration Initiative. Combined with our total investment of
about $19 billion, this will be the largest international R&D project
ever undertaken.
We're exploring new ways to encourage international
cooperation on the big science projects, like mapping the human
genome, global change research, and the superconducting super
collider - a technological giant that will recreate the fireball of
our origins and allow us to study forms of matter that haven't
existed since the birth of the universe.
There's a vote coming up in Congress this week on that
super collider, so I'd like to call on the members to support that
project, as well as our NASA budget. Only by doing so will we keep
America on the leading edge of advancing human knowledge and pushing
the limits of space exploration.
Tomorrow morning, the space shuttle is scheduled to lift
into the heavens the most sophisticated celestial object that mankind
has ever built -- the Hubble Telescope - with the power to see the
ends of the universe and back to the birth of time. I understand
it's half a billion times more sensitive than the human eye. You
talk about the vision thing - try on the Hubble Telescope for size.
(Laughter.)
But on the southwest grounds of this great academy rests a
bronze memorial to a scientist who helped define mankind's
understanding of time and space, of matter and energy. Among the
engravings on that memorial are words of wonder -- about the "joy and
amazement," Einstein felt, "at the beauty and grandeur of this world
of which man can just form a faint notion." Your work, the work of
science, daily brings that beauty and grandeur into sharper focus.
I'm blessed to be President at this fascinating time in
the history of the world, in the history of our country. And as
President, I can assure you of this: my administration is committed
to supporting you as you pursue the knowledge that illuminates the
world. Knowledge that will surely, ceaselessly continue to bring
benefit to all mankind.
Thank you very much for what you do, and God bless each
and every one of you. Thank you.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 22, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR ALLAN BROMLEY
FROM:
STEPHEN I. DANZANSKY
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Director of Cabinet Affairs
SUBJECT:
Announcement of Chairmanship
There is one additional point which we caught, but in our haste
to get you a document, neglected to include. On page two of the
release in the first paragraph is a reference to issues to be
taken up by the Working Group and sent to the EPC and DPC.
Listed among those is "barriers to the transfer of ideas
generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace."
Since this is the very issue assigned by the President to the
Competitiveness Council by the President in his recent speech, I
would think it wise to delete it from the mandate of the Working
Group. Although it is in the original charter of the EPC Working
Group, it is no longer operative.
We will in the next few days address the question of beefing up
the charter of your Working Group to include the additional items
listed in the draft joint charter we sent you last week. I see
no problem to doing that and getting Nick Brady to sign off early
next week. We will pursue that forthwith.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 21, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR D. ALLAN BROMLEY
FROM:
STEPHEN I. DANZANSKY
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Director of Cabinet Affairs
SUBJECT:
Working Group on Science and Technology
Per our discussion and one hour late, I am enclosing herewith our
suggested changes to the draft announcement of your chairmanship
of the S&T working group. The changes reflect the thinking of
both the DPC and EPC (and their corresponding chairmen pro
tempore: Treasury and Justice). I believe this will fly with all
concerned at the cabinet council level.
Just a word of caution. Although this has our approval as
amended, I don't believe it can be sent out as a White House
Press Release without clearance through the process (Cicconi et
al. ) As an announcement, to your P-CAST group, however, I see no
problem.
We'd be happy to discuss with you any of the changes we've made.
For your convenience I've supplied a newly typed first page as
well as your marked-up version for comparison.
Draft Text of Press Release
On S&T Working Group and FCCSET Reorganization
WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For Immediate Release
March 21, 1990
The White House today announced the appointment of D. Allan
Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as
chairman of the White House Working Group on Science and
Technology. The Working Group currently reports to the Economic
Policy Council and assists in the formulation, coordination, and
implementation of Administration policies involving science and
technology. The Working Group will also develop all science and
technology issues related to domestic and social policy for the
Domestic Policy Council. Members will include White House
officials and senior representatives from all Federal agencies
and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and
technological issues.
DRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE
ON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:
The working Group currently reports to the
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PRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS
Economic Policy Council and
FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For Immediate Release
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White House officials and (Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from
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Federal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and
technological issues.
The Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of
economic and domestic policy issues (1) and present its findings to the Economic Policy
including:
I Council and Domestic Policy Council. Among these issues are Federal encouragement
of investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the
transfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;
cooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and
access by American firms to international research and technology.
In addition, the Working (group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations
and actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and
Technology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology
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can be considered by the Economic Policy Council, and 2 Domestic Policy Council.
Dr. Bromley
In a related action, the President 2 announced a substantial restructuring of the
Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is
charged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology
that cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the
chairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other
agencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with
matters of interest to those agencies.
FCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a
high-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science
and technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these
umbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected
areas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen
and vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and
Technology is attached.
The Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)
was originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and
Technology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of
Science and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:
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Providing for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of
Federal scientific and technological programs.
0
Identifying research and development needs, including areas requiring
additional emphasis.
0
Achieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of
Federal agencies.
0
Developing and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of
Management and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected
cross-cutting areas of science and technology.
0
Furthering international cooperation in science and technology.
FCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of
importance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological
expertise and advice for the Executive Branch.
FCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and
technology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which
the President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished
scientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.
PCAST members will chair panels on specific areas-of science and technology that in
some cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private
sector input into high-level government policy making.
FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
COMMITTEES
MARCH 1990
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior
Vice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,
Environmental Protection Agency
Leonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space
Science and Applications, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Education and Human Resources
Chairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy
Vice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education
Luther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National
Science Foundation
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Food, Agriculture and Forest Research
Chairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,
Department of Agriculture
Vice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,
Department of Labor
James Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health
and Human Services
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
International Science and Engineering
Chairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
Philip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,
National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human
Services
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Life Sciences and Health
Chairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental
Research, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
Chairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation
Vice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,
Department of Defense
OSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical
Sciences and Engineering
Technology and Industry
Chairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce
Vice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for
Industrial Technology
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
MEMBERSHIP
March 1990
Chairman: D. Allan Bromley
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Members: Manuel Lujan
Secretary of the Interior
Clayton Yeutter
Secretary of Agriculture
Louis Sullivan
Secretary of Health and Human Services
James D. Watkins
Department of Energy
Lauro F. Cavazos
Secretary of Education
William K. Reilly
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Donald J. Atwood, Jr.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Thomas J. Murrin
Deputy Secretary
Department of Commerce
Alfred A. DelliBovi
Under Secretary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elaine Chao
Deputy Secretary
Department of Transportation
Anthony J. Principi
Deputy Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs
Richard McCormack
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Department of State
Richard H. Truly
Administrator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Erich Bloch
Director
National Science Foundation
DRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE
ON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:
WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS
FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For Immediate Release
March 21, 1990
The White House today announced the appointment of D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to
the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, as chairman of the White House Working Group on Science and
Technology. The Working Group currently reports to the Economic Policy Council
and assists in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of Administration
policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will also develop all
science and technology issues related to domestic and social policy for consideration
by the Domestic Policy Council. Members will include White House officials and
senior representatives from all Federal agencies and departments with substantial
involvement in scientific and technological issues.
The Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of
economic and domestic policy issues, including Federal encouragement of investment
research and development by the private sector; cooperation among government
laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and access by American firms to
international research and technology.
In addition, the Working Group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations
and actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and
Technology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology
can be considered by the Economic Policy Council or the Domestic Policy Council.
In a related action, Dr. Bromley announced a substantial restructuring of the Federal
Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is charged with
reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology that cut across
the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the chairman of
FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other agencies
may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with matters of
interest to those agencies.
FCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a
high-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science
and technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these
umbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate Federal activities in
selected areas of science and technology.
The Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)
was originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and
Technology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of
Science and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:
Providing for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of
Federal scientific and technological programs.
Identifying research and development needs, including areas requiring
additional emphasis.
Achieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of
Federal agencies.
0
Developing and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of
Management and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected
cross-cutting areas of science and technology.
0
Furthering international cooperation in science and technology.
FCCSET is also charged with identifying scientific and technological issues of
importance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological
expertise and advice for the Executive Branch.
FCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and
technology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which
the President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished
scientists and engineers from academia and industry; it reports directly to the
President and is chaired by Dr. Bromley. PCAST members will chair panels on
specific areas of science and technology that in some cases will parallel the committee
structure of FCCSET, allowing private sector input into high-level government policy
making.
FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL
March 1990
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
MEMBERSHIP
Chairman: D. Allan Bromley
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Members: Manuel Lujan
Secretary of the Interior
Clayton Yeutter
Secretary of Agriculture
Louis Sullivan
Secretary of Health and Human Services
James D. Watkins
Department of Energy
Lauro F. Cavazos
Secretary of Education
William K. Reilly
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Donald J. Atwood, Jr.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Thomas J. Murrin
Deputy Secretary
Department of Commerce
Alfred A. DelliBovi
Under Secretary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elaine Chao
Deputy Secretary
Department of Transportation
Anthony J. Principi
Deputy Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs
Richard McCormack
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Department of State
Richard H. Truly
Administrator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Erich Bloch
Director
National Science Foundation
Daft (not final)
DRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE
ON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:
PRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS
FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For Immediate Release
March 21, 1990
The President today announced the formation of a Working Group on Science and
Technology that will report jointly to the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic
Policy Council to assist in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of
Administration policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will be
chaired by D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Members will include
White House officials and Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from
Federal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and
technological issues.
The Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of
economic and domestic policy issues and present its findings to the Economic Policy
Council and Domestic Policy Council. Among these issues are Federal encouragement
of investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the
transfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;
cooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and
access by American firms to international research and technology.
In addition, the working group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations
and actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and
Technology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology
can be considered by the Economic Policy Council and Domestic Policy Council.
In a related action, the President announced a substantial restructuring of the
Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is
charged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology
that cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the
chairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other
agencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with
matters of interest to those agencies.
FCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a
high-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science
and technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these
umbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected
areas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen
and vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and
Technology is attached.
The Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)
was originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and
Technology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of
Science and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:
Providing for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of
Federal scientific and technological programs.
Identifying research and development needs, including areas requiring
additional emphasis.
0
Achieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of
Federal agencies.
0
Developing and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of
Management and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected
cross-cutting areas of science and technology.
0
Furthering international cooperation in science and technology.
FCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of
importance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological
expertise and advice for the Executive Branch.
FCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and
technology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which
the President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished
scientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.
PCAST members will chair panels on specific areas of science and technology that in
some cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private
sector input into high-level government policy making.
FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
COMMITTEES
MARCH 1990
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior
Vice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,
Environmental Protection Agency
Leonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space
Science and Applications, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Education and Human Resources
Chairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy
Vice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education
Luther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National
Science Foundation
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Food, Agriculture and Forest Research
Chairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,
Department of Agriculture
Vice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,
Department of Labor
James Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health
and Human Services
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
International Science and Engineering
Chairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
Philip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,
National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human
Services
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Life Sciences and Health
Chairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental
Research, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
Chairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation
Vice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,
Department of Defense
OSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical
Sciences and Engineering
Technology and Industry
Chairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce
Vice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for
Industrial Technology
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
MEMBERSHIP
March 1990
Chairman: D. Allan Bromley
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Members: Manuel Lujan
Secretary of the Interior
Clayton Yeutter
Secretary of Agriculture
Louis Sullivan
Secretary of Health and Human Services
James D. Watkins
Department of Energy
Lauro F. Cavazos
Secretary of Education
William K. Reilly
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Donald J. Atwood, Jr.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Thomas J. Murrin
Deputy Secretary
Department of Commerce
Alfred A. DelliBovi
Under Secretary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elaine Chao
Deputy Secretary
Department of Transportation
Anthony J. Principi
Deputy Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs
Richard McCormack
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Department of State
Richard H. Truly
Administrator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Erich Bloch
Director
National Science Foundation
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 21, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR D. ALLAN BROMLEY
FROM:
STEPHEN I. DANZANSKY
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Director of Cabinet Affairs
SUBJECT:
Working Group on Science and Technology
Per our discussion and one hour late, I am enclosing herewith our
suggested changes to the draft announcement of your chairmanship
of the S&T working group. The changes reflect the thinking of
both the DPC and EPC (and their corresponding chairmen pro
tempore: Treasury and Justice). I believe this will fly with all
concerned at the cabinet council level.
Just a word of caution. Although this has our approval as
amended, I don't believe it can be sent out as a White House
Press Release without clearance through the process (Cicconi et
al.). As an announcement, to your P-CAST group, however, I see no
problem.
We'd be happy to discuss with you any of the changes we've made.
For your convenience I've supplied a newly typed first page as
well as your marked-up version for comparison.
Draft Text of Press Release
On S&T Working Group and FCCSET Reorganization
WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For Immediate Release
March 21, 1990
The White House today announced the appointment of D. Allan
Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as
chairman of the White House Working Group on Science and
will
Technology. The Working Group currently reports to the Economic
Policy Council and assists in the formulation, coordination, and
implementation of Administration policies involving science and
technology. The Working Group will also develop all science and
consituation by
technology issues related to domestic and social policy for the
Domestic Policy Council. Members will include White House
officials and senior representatives from all Federal agencies
and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and
technological issues.
DRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE
ON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:
The working Group currently reports to the
I PRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS
Economic Policy Council and
FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
also 211 developiscience and technology issues related to
domestic and social natiev for the Domestic Policy Council
For Immediate Release
March 21, 1990
the appointment of
White House
The President today announced L the formation of a Working Group on Science and
Technology.\that will report jointly to the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic
N
e Policy Council to assistsin the formulation, coordination, and implementation of
Administration policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will be
&
chaired by
D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Memberswill include
senior
as chairman of the White House
White House officials and (Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from
all
Federal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and
technological issues.
The Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of
economic and domestic policy issues and present its findings to the Economic Policy
including:
I Council and Domestic Policy Council Among these issues are Federal encouragement
of investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the
transfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;
cooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and
access by American firms to international research and technology.
In addition, the Working (group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations
and actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and
Technology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology
or the
can be considered by the Economic Policy Council, and Domestic Policy Council.
Dr. Bromley
In a related action, the President 2 announced a substantial restructuring of the
Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is
charged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology
that cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the
chairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other
agencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with
matters of interest to those agencies.
FCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a
high-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science
and technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these
umbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected
areas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen
and vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and
Technology is attached.
The Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)
was originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and
Technology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of
Science and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:
Providing for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of
Federal scientific and technological programs.
Identifying research and development needs, including areas requiring
additional emphasis.
0
Achieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of
Federal agencies.
0
Developing and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of
Management and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected
cross-cutting areas of science and technology.
Furthering international cooperation in science and technology.
FCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of
importance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological
expertise and advice for the Executive Branch.
FCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and
technology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which
the President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished
scientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.
PCAST members will chair panels on specific areas of science and technology that in
some cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private
sector input into high-level government policy making.
FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
COMMITTEES
MARCH 1990
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior
Vice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,
Environmental Protection Agency
Leonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space
Science and Applications, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Education and Human Resources
Chairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy
Vice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education
Luther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National
Science Foundation
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Food, Agriculture and Forest Research
Chairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,
Department of Agriculture
Vice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,
Department of Labor
James Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health
and Human Services
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
International Science and Engineering
Chairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
Philip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,
National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human
Services
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Life Sciences and Health
Chairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental
Research, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
Chairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation
Vice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,
Department of Defense
OSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical
Sciences and Engineering
Technology and Industry
Chairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce
Vice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for
Industrial Technology
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
MEMBERSHIP
March 1990
Chairman:
D. Allan Bromley
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Members:
Manuel Lujan
Secretary of the Interior
Clayton Yeutter
Secretary of Agriculture
Louis Sullivan
Secretary of Health and Human Services
James D. Watkins
Department of Energy
Lauro F. Cavazos
Secretary of Education
William K. Reilly
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Donald J. Atwood, Jr.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Thomas J. Murrin
Deputy Secretary
Department of Commerce
Alfred A. DelliBovi
Under Secretary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elaine Chao
Deputy Secretary
Department of Transportation
Anthony J. Principi
Deputy Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs
Richard McCormack
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Department of State
Richard H. Truly
Administrator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Erich Bloch
Director
National Science Foundation
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Date: 3-22-90
OLIN WETHINGTON
TO:
FROM:
STEPHEN I. DANZANSKY
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Director of Cabinet Affairs
I'd appreciate your following through to
ammend the S&T charter to include the
additional elements contained in the
draft joint charter dated March 12, 1990.
Allan Bromley wants the additional elements
included in his mandate and I told him
we'd take care of it next week. I'll
arrange to get the two of you together.
Thanks.
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Telephone:
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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 29, 1989
MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
THE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
THE CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ECONOMIC AND
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
THE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
POLICY
THE ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
ADMINISTRATION
THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
SUBJECT:
Research, Development, Technology, and Innovation
Economic growth and the standard of living in the United States
in the 1990s will depend significantly on our ability to research
and develop new technologies and convert these technologies into
products for the marketplace.
The President has directed the Economic Policy Council (EPC) to
develop a comprehensive strategy for improving research,
development, technology, and innovation in our country. The EPC
should prepare a report identifying our policy objectives in
these areas and developing policy options for achieving those
objectives.
The report should review all major research, development,
technology, and innovation issues, including:
The most appropriate means for the federal government to
encourage investment in research and development in the
United States.
The best processes for converting ideas in the laboratories
to products in the marketplace and removal of barriers to
the private sector for converting such ideas into products.
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Research, Development,
Technology, and Innovation
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The appropriate roles of government laboratories, university
laboratories, and business and how they can best work
together.
o
Access of American firms to international basic research and
technology projects.
The report should develop broad principles for guiding
Administration consideration of specific research, development,
technology, and innovation issues, for example, HDTV and
superconductivity.
The President has directed the Secretary of Commerce to lead the
preparation of the report, working closely with the Director of
the Office of Science and Technology Policy and other EPC
members.
To develop the report and regularly review these issues after
completion of the report, I am establishing an EPC Working Group
on Research, Development, Technology, and Innovation. The
Secretary of Commerce should designate a chairman.
The Working Group should include representatives from the Office
of the Vice President, Departments of State, the Treasury,
Defense, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human
Services, and Energy, Office of Management and Budget, United
States Trade Representative, Council of Economic Advisors, Office
of Policy Development, Office of Science and Technology Policy,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National
Science Foundation. The members of the Working Group should be
at the Assistant Secretary level or above.
The chairman of the Working Group should coordinate its
activities with the Executive Secretary to the EPC.
The Working Group should present the report to the EPC within 90
days of this directive.
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
health 1. bady
Nicholas F. Brady
Chairman Pro Tempore
Economic Policy Council
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WHITE HOUSE
BUSH STRENTHENS POLICY APPARATUS
FOR SCENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
current agreement:
March 12, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT
THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
THE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
THE CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ECONOMIC AND
DOMESTIC POLICY
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY TO
THE CABINET
THE ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
ADMINISTRATION
THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
SUBJECT:
Working Group on Science and Technology Policy
A Working Group on Science and Technology Policy will be
formed to assist the President in the formulation, coordination
and implementation of Administration policy involving science and
technology through the Domestic Policy Council and the Economic
Policy Council, and utilizing to the fullest extent practicable
the resources of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science,
Engineering and Technology.
The Working Group will examine and develop Administration
policy on scientific research and conduct a fundamental and
overall assessment of how Federal scientific research priorities
are set. The need for such an assessment is clear in times of
budgetary limitations, especially as the Federal government
undertakes substantial funding obligations for new basic research
programs, such as those concerning AIDS, mapping the human
genome, and the superconducting super collider.
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The Working Group will also review major issues involving
research, development, technology and innovation, including:
encouragement of investment in research and development by the
Federal government; barriers to the transfer of ideas in the
laboratory to products in the marketplace; cooperation among
government laboratories, university laboratories, and business;
and access by American firms to international research and
technology.
Specifically, the working group may: (1) evaluate current
basic scientific research efforts of the Federal government,
including those of the National Science Foundation, National
Institutes of Health, Departments of Energy, Defense, and others;
[[(2) examine current research priorities in light of large-
scale research efforts in certain areas (e.g., AIDS,
superconducting super collider) and whether these efforts are
crowding out other basic research; (3) recommend ways to set
Federal scientific research priorities and ensure appropriate
focus of Federal research and development on basic research;]
(3) investigate innovative approaches to encourage basic research
and development by industry and State and local governments; (4)
evaluate the establishment and effect of university-based,
interdisciplinary research centers of excellence; (5) examine
research partnerships between government laboratories, the
private sector, and universities to take better advantage of
fundamental scientific advances, and other issues related to
science and technology for policy.
The Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Policy will chair the working group. Other working group members
shall include representatives from the Office of the Vice
President, the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, Commerce,
Health and Human Services, Energy, Education, the Office of
Management and Budget, the Office of the United States Trade
Representative, the Council of Economic Advisors, the Office of
Policy Development, the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National
Science Foundation, and other Federal departments and agencies
and White House offices, as appropriate.
To foster greater interagency coordination and cooperation,
all interagency issues substantially involving domestic or
economic science and technology policy will be reviewed by the
Working Group. Those meriting Presidential attention or decision
will be referred to the Domestic Policy Council or the Economic
Policy Council, which serve as the primary channels to advise the
President on the formulation, coordination, and implementation of
domestic, social and economic policies.
The Working Group shall coordinate its activities with the
Executive Secretaries to the Domestic Policy Council and the
Economic Policy Council. The Executive Secretaries will ensure
coordination of related policy activities with their counterparts
in the Competitiveness Council and the Federal Coordinating
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Council on Science, Engineering and Technology.
Please forward the name of your agency's representative at
the Assistant Secretary level, or above, to Sara Sumner
(456-6722), by close of business on March 19, 1990.
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Nicholas F. Brady
Dick Thornburgh
Chairman Pro Tempore
Chairman Pro Tempore
Economic Policy Council
Domestic Policy Council
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DRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE
ON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:
PRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS
FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For Immediate Release
March 21, 1990
The President today announced the formation of a Working Group on Science and
Technology that will report jointly to the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic
Policy Councilsto assist in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of
Administration policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will be
chaired by D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Members will include
White House officials and Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from
Federal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and
technological issues.
The Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of
economic and domestic policy issues and present its findings to the Economic Policy
Council and Domestic Policy Council. Among these issues are Federal encouragement
of investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the
transfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;
cooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and
access by American firms to international research and technology.
In addition, the working group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations
and actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and
Technology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology
can be considered by the Economic Policy Council and Domestic Policy Council.
In a related action, the President announced a substantial restructuring of the
Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is
charged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology
that cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the
chairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other
agencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with
matters of interest to those agencies.
FCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a
high-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science
and technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these
umbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected
areas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen
and vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and
Technology is attached.
The Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)
was originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and
Technology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of
Science and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:
Providing for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of
Federal scientific and technological programs.
Identifying research and development needs, including areas requiring
additional emphasis.
0
Achieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of
Federal agencies.
0
Developing and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of
Management and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected
cross-cutting areas of science and technology.
0
Furthering international cooperation in science and technology.
FCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of
importance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological
expertise and advice for the Executive Branch.
FCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and
technology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which
the President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished
scientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.
PCAST members will chair panels on specific areas-of science and technology that in
some cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private
sector input into high-level government policy making.
FEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
COMMITTEES
MARCH 1990
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Chairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior
Vice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,
Environmental Protection Agency
Leonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space
Science and Applications, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Education and Human Resources
Chairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy
Vice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education
Luther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National
Science Foundation
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Food, Agriculture and Forest Research
Chairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,
Department of Agriculture
Vice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,
Department of Labor
James Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health
and Human Services
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
International Science and Engineering
Chairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
Philip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,
National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human
Services
OSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and
International Affairs
Life Sciences and Health
Chairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and
Human Services
Vice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental
Research, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy
OSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences
Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
Chairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation
Vice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,
Department of Defense
OSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical
Sciences and Engineering
Technology and Industry
Chairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce
Vice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
OSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for
Industrial Technology
FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
MEMBERSHIP
March 1990
Chairman: D. Allan Bromley
Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Members: Manuel Lujan
Secretary of the Interior
Clayton Yeutter
Secretary of Agriculture
Louis Sullivan
Secretary of Health and Human Services
James D. Watkins
Department of Energy
Lauro F. Cavazos
Secretary of Education
William K. Reilly
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Donald J. Atwood, Jr.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Thomas J. Murrin
Deputy Secretary
Department of Commerce
Alfred A. DelliBovi
Under Secretary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elaine Chao
Deputy Secretary
Department of Transportation
Anthony J. Principi
Deputy Secretary
Department of Veterans Affairs
Richard McCormack
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Department of State
Richard H. Truly
Administrator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Erich Bloch
Director
National Science Foundation
6
report that this week we have a team at COCOM in Paris
negotiating the modernization of export controls on computers.
These controls have been an important part of our security for
decades, and I know our allies want to work with us to ensure
their relevance in the 1990's.
To provide a further competitive edge for American firms, we
will support legislation to reduce the anti-trust uncertainty
that may discourage joint production ventures. Under such a
proposal, the courts would weigh, on a case-by-case basis, the
competitive benefits as well as costs of joint production
ventures. In addition, joint production ventures announced to
the government would be liable only for actual damages in private
anti-trust suits. Such an initiative would build on the
competitive strength of American business, by allowing firms to
pool their skills, build new production facilities, and share
investment risks.
One risk you all face, of course -- at an intolerable
level -- is product liability. And the Council on
Competitiveness, ably chaired by Vice President Quayle, has
already begun a concentrated effort to significantly reform our
cumbersome and expensive product liability system.
Today, I'm going to give the Competitiveness Council another
challenge: to form a working group, to find ways that American
industry can better translate new ideas and technologies into
marketable products.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
AMERICAN ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON COURT HOTEL
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1990
11:30 A.M.
((Thank you, Mitchell [Kertzman]. It's good to see Dick
Iverson and so many familiar faces. Many of you came a long way
to be here -- so I won't ask you to sit through a long speech.
The punishment should fit the crime.
((You know I'm a real fan of high tech. In fact, I've had a
car phone for years. Back when I was Vice President, though, I
didn't get that many calls on my car phone. In fact, I remember
a campaign trip in Iowa once. The phone rings. I sit up to
attention, assuming it was the boss. I'm ready to answer the
tough questions. I pick up the phone -- you got it. Wrong
number.) )
((But those were the early years of car phones. I don't get
too many wrong numbers anymore.) 11
It's an honor and a pleasure to be here today. You are the
leaders of a vital range of our most innovative and interrelated
industries -- from semiconductors, microprocessors and circuit
boards... to PCs, mainframes, supercomputers, telecommunications,
and defense electronics.
But at every stage of that impressive technological "food
chain," yours are the people -- and the products -- that keep
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this country competitive. I'd add a special tip of the hat to
President Gary Tooker of Motorola, winner of last year's Malcolm
Baldridge National Quality Award.
For almost 50 years now, your industries have been at the
center of a remarkable revolution: in the way work is done, the
way ideas are managed -- even the way time and the vast reaches
of space are understood.
And along the way, you've also become the nation's largest
manufacturing employer -- creating jobs for over two and a half
million Americans. Modernizing services and industries of every
kind. Assuring our national security. And providing a vital
export market.
As technologies, economies, and geopolitics change almost
weekly, your industries stand at a threshold of tremendous
opportunity.
So we intend to work with you -- closely, constantly, and
consistently -- to see that American electronics and technologies
regain and retain a preeminent position in world markets. III
We're committed to a comprehensive program of both immediate
and long-term competitive strategies for the future. And while
we're only at the start of a process that shows great promise,
today I want to outline briefly what we're already doing.
Our first priority is to encourage productivity gains,
savings, and long-term investment in high-tech industries, by
lowering the cost of capital.
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We believe that one of the most crucial Federal priorities
is to encourage planning for the long term -- because, for too
long, where investment is concerned, the Federal government has
been more of a hindrance than a help.
So last month, we sent to Congress our Savings and Economic
Growth Act -- which includes an innovative family savings plan,
to stimulate capital formation. New incentives for IRAs to help
first-time home buyers. And a business-building, job-creating,
revenue-enhancing cut in the capital gains differential.
Without it, every business in America -- of every size -- is
at a competitive disadvantage abroad. Let me read you a list of
the maximum long-term capital gains tax rate for some of
America's competitors. Japan: about five percent; South Korea:
zero; Taiwan: zero; West Germany: zero; Singapore: zero; Hong
Kong: zero. The list goes on. So we're fighting hard, with your
continued support, for that crucial tax cut.
Along with encouraging investment, we've proposed a budget
that will bring the deficit down. Below the Gramm-Rudman-
Hollings targets by 1993. Without raising taxes. 11 And, we're
committed to unprecedented support for research and development
efforts. We believe that the R & E tax credit should be made
permanent. 11 And our budget includes a record-breaking $70
billion in Federal direct investment for research and
development.
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Our budget also devotes unprecedented resources to space.
Education. The fight against drugs. Environmental initiatives.
And other crucial investments in America's future.
Such investments, over the years, have ensured that this
country has retained its leadership in terms of the basic
research and fundamental discoveries underlying your industry.
This Administration is also committed to working with you in the
critical pre-competitive development stage where the basic
discoveries are converted into generic technologies that support
both our economic competitiveness and our national security.
Here again we can help to level the international playing field
on which you compete.
But we understand, as you do, that no investment is more
important than our human resources. So together with the
nation's governors, we've set ambitious goals for America's
students. As one incentive, we've proposed a new National
Science Scholars program. We have also requested a 70 percent
increase for the Eisenhower Math and Sciences Educational Program
and a $100 million increase in the National Science Foundation
education budget.
By the year 2000, our kids can be first in the world in
science and math achievement -- and with enough involvement and
leadership from groups like this one, they will be.
Your industries face some unique challenges. The
marketplace is tough enough without undue constraints and unfair
restrictions.
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So we've pledged to make sure that trade is free, and
fair -- by judiciously but firmly implementing the 1988 Trade
Act. We're moving forward with Japan through the Structural
Impediments Initiative and by working to develop a more
productive relationship overall. Just last weekend, I met with
Prime Minister Kaifu and specifically discussed satellites and
telecommunications, super computers, forest products, and yes,
semi-conductors. I hope, on the basis of our talks, that Japan
will be moving toward early resolution of these problem areas.
We agreed that we must both do our very best to make the SII
talks a success. We have presented ideas for removing structural
impediments in Japan. However, we must remember that SII is a
two way street. Our task must be to make the American economy
even stronger and even more competitive.
But we're also committed to strengthening and expanding the
multilateral trading system, through the Uruguay Round. We've
proposed far-reaching reforms of the global trading system,
working to bring a wide range of new trade areas under the GATT.
These crucial negotiations will help us create a more equitable,
more efficient trade climate, worldwide.
I've made it a priority to review and modernize our export
controls, to provide vital help to the emerging democracies,
without compromising national security. Given the pace of
political change, rapid advances in technology, and the
competitive position of American industry, we must ensure that
export controls are effective or eliminated. I am happy to
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report that this week we have a team at COCOM in Paris
negotiating the modernization of export controls on computers.
These controls have been an important part of our security for
decades, and I know our allies want to work with us to ensure
their relevance in the 1990's.
To provide a further competitive edge for American firms, we
will support legislation to reduce the anti-trust uncertainty
that may discourage joint production ventures. Under such a
proposal, the courts would weigh, on a case-by-case basis, the
competitive benefits as well as costs of joint production
ventures. In addition, joint production ventures announced to
the government would be liable only for actual damages in private
anti-trust suits. Such an initiative would build on the
competitive strength of American business, by allowing firms to
pool their skills, build new production facilities, and share
investment risks.
One risk you all face, of course -- at an intolerable
level -- is product liability. And the Council on
Competitiveness, ably chaired by Vice President Quayle, has
already begun a concentrated effort to significantly reform our
cumbersome and expensive product liability system.
Today, I'm going to give the Competitiveness Council another
challenge: to form a working group, to find ways that American
industry can better translate new ideas and technologies into
marketable products.
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So many of the world's most advanced technologies, from
robotics to the VCR, were first developed here. Yet, so many
of those concepts were ultimately brought to the marketplace by
our competitors. We can do better. And we will do better.
Today, I've outlined some of what we're doing to level the
field. But it will be leaders like you that have to take the
ball and run with it.
You represent the vital core of America's competitive
potential, with over 3500 of the most dynamic, technologically
advanced, forward-thinking companies in the country.
Your ideas are important to us. And your success is crucial
to America's future. So let me encourage you to work together,
and with us, on a long-term program to meet the competitive
challenge of a new century.
Thank you. And God bless you.
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"ocrText": "File:\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary\nFor Immediate Release\nApril 23, 1990\nREMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT\nTO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES\nNational Academy of Sciences Headquarters Building\nWashington, D.C.\n2:09 P.M. EDT\nTHE PRESIDENT: Apologies for being late. To the\ndistinguished members of the National Academy - all. And to Dr.\nPress and Dr. Ebert, Dr. Raven, Dr. Gordon, Dr. Blout. Now we start\non our side -- Dr. Bromley. (Laughter.) Jim Watkins, a member of\nour Cabinet. Admiral Truly, ladies and gentlemen: it really is an\nhonor to be with you today.\nWe stand at a very interesting time. And the advice and\ncouncil of this academy has been really crucial to American\npresidents for well over a century. And I'm proud to be the latest\nto come over here to say thank you. We also stand at a moment of\nwondrous prosperity. But our wealth goes far beyond the merely\nmaterial. Ours is an intellectual prosperity, unprecedented in\nhistory. For that and the health and security it affords this nation\nand the world, gratitude is owed to the men and women who have\ncommitted their minds and lives to science.\nThose devoted to such work -- its patient searching, its\npassionate struggles - have engaged themselves in mankind's most\nexalted mission and the mind's manifest destiny: the search for\nunderstanding. That's what it all boils down to.\nPresident Lincoln established this great institution in\nthe dark hours of our nation's greatest crisis which testifies to\nthe enduring importance of scientific knowledge. In the years that\nfollowed, your academy has responded to urgent national needs in\ntimes of war and peace.\nWhen this magnificent building was dedicated, Calvin\nCoolidge predicted \"a new day in scientific research. A new sun is\nrising,\" he said. He was right. The awesome scientific advances of\nthis century, many of which you've brought about, bring us ever\ncloser to the understanding that's required of the universe, its\norigins, and our own. And science has told us a stranger and more\nwondrous story than myth might ever have written for us.\nFourscore and 10 or 20 billion years ago, the theory\ngoes, it all began with a universe of energy and mass unimaginably\nhot and compressed, containing everything that would become what we\nnow see in the heavens. And then, science tells us, in one\nincomprehensively powerful instant, energy and matter of every kind\nexploded in every direction. or as a layman might explain it,\nsomebody hit that cosmic baseball right out of the park. (Laughter.)\nBut while the pace of cosmic change may have begin with\nblinding speed and slowed down since, the pace of our scientific\nevolution has been rapidly accelerating. Growing in intensity like a\nseries of chain reactions in a critical mass of highly-trained\nAmerican grey matter touching off scientific and technical\nrevolutions in every direction.\nToday, I wanted to come over here to outline the role\nthat this administration is playing to advance those revolutions.\nBecause as the pace of science accelerates, I believe that government\nmust keep pace -- and will keep pace.\nMORE\n- 2 -\nFirst, we've moved to better integrate science and\ntechnology into the policy process. We've created an interagency\nworking group that will more closely link science and technology --\nlink their considerations with the policy-making process of the\nEconomic and Domestic Policy Councils.\nMy Assistant for Science and Technology, Dr. Bromley,\nchairs this working group and participates in those councils,\nadvising them on matters related to science and technology, as well\nas serving on the National Space Council.\nAnd we're also committed to greater cross-fertilization\nwith talent from the private sector, on issues ranging from pure\nresearch to manufacturing performance. So this year we created a\nPresident's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- experts\nwhose guidance I value and depend on. I've already had two meetings\nwith that group, myself. We'll also be looking for counsel from this\nacademy's new manufacturing forum, just announced this month.\nWe want to advance America's tradition of innovation, and\nwe intend to get the biggest bang for the federal buck. And this\nadministration has also taken steps to reinvigorate the Federal\nCoordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, in\norder to assure that the federal investments in R&D programs are\nclosely integrated across these agency boundaries.\nIn January, we sent a budget to Congres that includes a\nrecord $71 billion for research and development; an investment in a\nstronger economy, a more secure nation and, indeed, a brighter\nfuture. Our administration is committed to investing in the future;\nit's evident in the policies we're creating and the budget we're\ncalling for, with everything from a 24-percent increase for NASA, to\nour support of a major agricultural research initiative.\nTo improve the international competitiveness of American\nindustry and our overall standard of living, we've called for a\npermanent extension of the research and experimentation tax credit.\nAnd we're working to lower the cost of capital and clear away\nregulatory burdens so that industry can make the kinds of investment\nthat the future demands.\nAlong with the applied, market-driven knowledge so\ncrucial to this country's competitive future, let me reaffirm two\nother priorities:\nFirst -- and I'm going to keep talking about this one --\nmath and science education. We understand that only with a new\ngeneration of scientists and engineers will your work and America's\npreeminence be assured. And so we're engaged in a broad initiative\nof reform and restructuring in cooperation with the states. It's an\neffort that began with our first-ever education summit with the\nnation's governors last fall. And our goal is to make American\nstudents first in the world in science and math achievement by the\nend of this century, and to convince more women and minorities to\nstudy science.\nWe're providing a number of new incentives for students,\nlike the National Science Scholars Program that I've proposed. We're\nopening the doors of federal laboratories, facilities, and agencies\nto students and teachers. Our budget increases funding by 26 percent\nto over $1 billion for science, math, and engineering education,\nthrough the Departments of Education, Energy, Interior and others, as\nwell as the National Science Foundation and NASA.\nAnd today, I ask our industrial and business communities\nto create new alliances for education, mobilizing more of this\nnation's great technical resources for the sake of the future. We\nare committed to ensuring that America has the brainpower to remain\nat the forefront.\nA second priority of this administration is basic\nMORE\n- 3 -\nresearch the historical wellspring of this nation's well-being.\nScience must be able to continue seeking answers to our most\nfundamental questions.\nFor such reasons our budget calls for increasing funding\nfor the U.S. Global Change Research Program by 57 percent, to over $1\nbillion. And earlier this year, I reiterated my commitment to double\nthe National Science Foundation budget by 1993. Today, I want to\ncall on Congress - put our money where our future is. Put an\nincreased National Science Foundation budget back on track.\nToday, science and technology are assuming a broader and\nmore interrelated role in human life than ever before. And they're\nbecoming forces for historical change.\nSatellites already help us study the Earth's natural\nsystems and assess environmental threats. And the mission to Planet\nEarth will further our work of global stewardship.\nBut this past year, in the Revolution of '89, we've also\nseen communication satellites, along with video cameras and VCRs and\nFAX machines, becoming a potent force for peace both a product of\nscience and a source of conscience - bringing the actions of nations\nbefore the eyes of the world.\nPictures from Poland and South Africa, scenes on the\nBerlin Wall - the eye of technology has proved more powerful than\nchisels for breaking down barriers, etching the idea of freedom on\nthe psyche of humanity, and setting off a wondrous, hopeful,\npolitical chain reaction worldwide.\nIt's no accident that many of the individuals at the\ncenter of today's worldwide political revolutions share a vision of\nthe future based on personal freedom, openness, and freedom of\ninquiry. These values are shared by our political system and by\nscience alike. Science, like any field of endeavor, relies on\nfreedom of inquiry. And one of the hallmarks of that freedom is\nobjectivity.\nNow more than ever -- on issues ranging from climate\nchange to AIDS research, to genetic engineering, to food additives\n-- government relies on the impartial perspective of science for\nguidance. And as the frontiers of knowledge are increasingly distant\nfrom the understanding of the many, it is ever more important that we\ncan turn to the few for sound, straightforward advice.\nThe National Academy of Sciences is renowned for\nobjectivity and immunity to partisan pressures. Your impartial\nguidance has been invaluable to American presidents and to the\nAmerican people for well over a century. So I am confident that the\nmembers of this body, the most distinguished scientists in America,\nwill continue the tradition that has been the Academy's hallmark.\nOn this I know we agree, because so many of our technical\nand scientific achievemens have been the products of independent\nminds. And if the Earth-moving events of 1989 reminded us of\nanything at all, it's that complex bureaucracies and centralized\nplanning don't work well in the governance of societies. We will not\ntry to impose them on science.\nJust as entrepreneurs and small businesses fuel the\ngrowth of the American economy, the backbone of American science is\nits brilliant array of individual investigators spread across the\nnation.\nAmong so many, think of Chester Carlson, who invented the\nphotocopy machine in a little room over a Long Island pub. Or\nBarbara McClintock, working alone, who made monumental discoveries in\ngenetics nearly 50 years ago that the world began to understand only\nin the last decade.\nLook, of course, I can't claim to comprehend how science\nMORE\n- 4 -\ndoes its work. Like many, my scientific understanding has been\ninfluenced by those Gary Larson cartoons. (Laughter.) Like the one\nwhere, after detailed calculations, Einstein discovers that time is\nactually money.\nI'm not here as an expert, but as a believer. And one of\nthe best things government can do to support the magnificent\ncreativity and energy of the American technical community is to\nlocate individual scientists with talent, furnish them with adequate\nresources and state-of-the-art instrumentation through agencies\nlike our marvelous National Institutes of Health, the National\nScience Foundation, and then the Departments of Defense and Energy\nand others - to help these investigators make progress.\nBut there are also scientific challenges that, because of\ntheir unprecedented scope and importance, demand unusual support and\ninternational cooperation. Already, the European Space Agency,\nJapan, and Canada are making hardware contributions valued at more\nthan $7 billion for Space Station Freedom, a key component of our\nSpace Exploration Initiative. Combined with our total investment of\nabout $19 billion, this will be the largest international R&D project\never undertaken.\nWe're exploring new ways to encourage international\ncooperation on the big science projects, like mapping the human\ngenome, global change research, and the superconducting super\ncollider - a technological giant that will recreate the fireball of\nour origins and allow us to study forms of matter that haven't\nexisted since the birth of the universe.\nThere's a vote coming up in Congress this week on that\nsuper collider, so I'd like to call on the members to support that\nproject, as well as our NASA budget. Only by doing so will we keep\nAmerica on the leading edge of advancing human knowledge and pushing\nthe limits of space exploration.\nTomorrow morning, the space shuttle is scheduled to lift\ninto the heavens the most sophisticated celestial object that mankind\nhas ever built -- the Hubble Telescope - with the power to see the\nends of the universe and back to the birth of time. I understand\nit's half a billion times more sensitive than the human eye. You\ntalk about the vision thing - try on the Hubble Telescope for size.\n(Laughter.)\nBut on the southwest grounds of this great academy rests a\nbronze memorial to a scientist who helped define mankind's\nunderstanding of time and space, of matter and energy. Among the\nengravings on that memorial are words of wonder -- about the \"joy and\namazement,\" Einstein felt, \"at the beauty and grandeur of this world\nof which man can just form a faint notion.\" Your work, the work of\nscience, daily brings that beauty and grandeur into sharper focus.\nI'm blessed to be President at this fascinating time in\nthe history of the world, in the history of our country. And as\nPresident, I can assure you of this: my administration is committed\nto supporting you as you pursue the knowledge that illuminates the\nworld. Knowledge that will surely, ceaselessly continue to bring\nbenefit to all mankind.\nThank you very much for what you do, and God bless each\nand every one of you. Thank you.\nEND\n2:28 P.M. EDT\nOriginally Processed With FOIA(s):\nFOIA Number:\n2005-0336-F\n2005-0336-F\nFOIA\nMARKER\nThis is not a textual record. This is used as an\nadministrative marker by the George Bush Presidential\nLibrary Staff.\nRecord Group/Collection:\nGeorge H.W. Bush Presidential Records\nCollection/Office of Origin: Cabinet Affairs, White House Office of\nSeries:\nBlumenthal, Gary, Files\nSubseries:\nOA/ID Number:\n05870\nFolder ID Number:\n05870-019\nFolder Title:\nEPC Science & Technology\nStack:\nRow:\nSection:\nShelf:\nPosition:\nG\n10\n4\n3\n1\nDocument Originally\nAttached to\nPrevious Page\nIT cup EVX new wonun Rx2) h.\nDocument Originally\nAttached to\nPrevious Page\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nMarch 22, 1990\nMEMORANDUM FOR ALLAN BROMLEY\nFROM:\nSTEPHEN I. DANZANSKY\nDeputy Assistant to the President\nand Director of Cabinet Affairs\nSUBJECT:\nAnnouncement of Chairmanship\nThere is one additional point which we caught, but in our haste\nto get you a document, neglected to include. On page two of the\nrelease in the first paragraph is a reference to issues to be\ntaken up by the Working Group and sent to the EPC and DPC.\nListed among those is \"barriers to the transfer of ideas\ngenerated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace.\"\nSince this is the very issue assigned by the President to the\nCompetitiveness Council by the President in his recent speech, I\nwould think it wise to delete it from the mandate of the Working\nGroup. Although it is in the original charter of the EPC Working\nGroup, it is no longer operative.\nWe will in the next few days address the question of beefing up\nthe charter of your Working Group to include the additional items\nlisted in the draft joint charter we sent you last week. I see\nno problem to doing that and getting Nick Brady to sign off early\nnext week. We will pursue that forthwith.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nMarch 21, 1990\nMEMORANDUM FOR D. ALLAN BROMLEY\nFROM:\nSTEPHEN I. DANZANSKY\nDeputy Assistant to the President\nand Director of Cabinet Affairs\nSUBJECT:\nWorking Group on Science and Technology\nPer our discussion and one hour late, I am enclosing herewith our\nsuggested changes to the draft announcement of your chairmanship\nof the S&T working group. The changes reflect the thinking of\nboth the DPC and EPC (and their corresponding chairmen pro\ntempore: Treasury and Justice). I believe this will fly with all\nconcerned at the cabinet council level.\nJust a word of caution. Although this has our approval as\namended, I don't believe it can be sent out as a White House\nPress Release without clearance through the process (Cicconi et\nal. ) As an announcement, to your P-CAST group, however, I see no\nproblem.\nWe'd be happy to discuss with you any of the changes we've made.\nFor your convenience I've supplied a newly typed first page as\nwell as your marked-up version for comparison.\nDraft Text of Press Release\nOn S&T Working Group and FCCSET Reorganization\nWHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nFor Immediate Release\nMarch 21, 1990\nThe White House today announced the appointment of D. Allan\nBromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology\nand Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as\nchairman of the White House Working Group on Science and\nTechnology. The Working Group currently reports to the Economic\nPolicy Council and assists in the formulation, coordination, and\nimplementation of Administration policies involving science and\ntechnology. The Working Group will also develop all science and\ntechnology issues related to domestic and social policy for the\nDomestic Policy Council. Members will include White House\nofficials and senior representatives from all Federal agencies\nand departments with substantial involvement in scientific and\ntechnological issues.\nDRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE\nON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:\nThe working Group currently reports to the\nl\nPRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS\nEconomic Policy Council and\nFOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nFor Immediate Release\nalso 211 developiscience and technology issues related to\ndomestic and socie noliev for the Domestic Policy Council\nMarch 21, 1990\nthe appointment of\nWhite House\nThe President today announced 1 the formation of a Working Group on Science and\nTechnology. that will report jointly to the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic\nN\n& Policy Council to assistsin the formulation, coordination, and implementation of\nAdministration policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will be\n9\nchaired by D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology\nand Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.\nMembers State will include\nsenior\nas chairman of the White House\nWhite House officials and (Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from\nall\nFederal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and\ntechnological issues.\nThe Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of\neconomic and domestic policy issues (1) and present its findings to the Economic Policy\nincluding:\nI Council and Domestic Policy Council. Among these issues are Federal encouragement\nof investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the\ntransfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;\ncooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and\naccess by American firms to international research and technology.\nIn addition, the Working (group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations\nand actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and\nTechnology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology\nor the\ncan be considered by the Economic Policy Council, and 2 Domestic Policy Council.\nDr. Bromley\nIn a related action, the President 2 announced a substantial restructuring of the\nFederal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is\ncharged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology\nthat cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the\nchairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other\nagencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with\nmatters of interest to those agencies.\nFCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a\nhigh-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science\nand technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these\numbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected\nareas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen\nand vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and\nTechnology is attached.\nThe Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)\nwas originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and\nTechnology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of\nScience and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:\n0\nProviding for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of\nFederal scientific and technological programs.\n0\nIdentifying research and development needs, including areas requiring\nadditional emphasis.\n0\nAchieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of\nFederal agencies.\n0\nDeveloping and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of\nManagement and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected\ncross-cutting areas of science and technology.\n0\nFurthering international cooperation in science and technology.\nFCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of\nimportance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological\nexpertise and advice for the Executive Branch.\nFCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and\ntechnology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which\nthe President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished\nscientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.\nPCAST members will chair panels on specific areas-of science and technology that in\nsome cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private\nsector input into high-level government policy making.\nFEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nCOMMITTEES\nMARCH 1990\nEarth and Environmental Sciences\nChairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the\nInterior\nVice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nLeonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space\nScience and Applications, National\nAeronautics and Space Administration\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nEducation and Human Resources\nChairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy\nVice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education\nLuther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National\nScience Foundation\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nFood, Agriculture and Forest Research\nChairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,\nDepartment of Agriculture\nVice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,\nDepartment of Labor\nJames Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug\nAdministration, Department of Health\nand Human Services\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nInternational Science and Engineering\nChairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation\nPhilip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,\nNational Institutes of Health,\nDepartment of Health and Human\nServices\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nLife Sciences and Health\nChairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental\nResearch, Office of Energy Research,\nDepartment of Energy\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nPhysical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences\nChairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation\nVice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,\nDepartment of Defense\nOSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical\nSciences and Engineering\nTechnology and Industry\nChairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce\nVice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and\nSpace Administration\nOSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for\nIndustrial Technology\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nMEMBERSHIP\nMarch 1990\nChairman: D. Allan Bromley\nAssistant to the President for Science and Technology\nDirector, Office of Science and Technology Policy\nMembers: Manuel Lujan\nSecretary of the Interior\nClayton Yeutter\nSecretary of Agriculture\nLouis Sullivan\nSecretary of Health and Human Services\nJames D. Watkins\nDepartment of Energy\nLauro F. Cavazos\nSecretary of Education\nWilliam K. Reilly\nAdministrator\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nDonald J. Atwood, Jr.\nDeputy Secretary of Defense\nThomas J. Murrin\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Commerce\nAlfred A. DelliBovi\nUnder Secretary\nDepartment of Housing and Urban Development\nElaine Chao\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Transportation\nAnthony J. Principi\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs\nRichard McCormack\nUnder Secretary for Economic Affairs\nDepartment of State\nRichard H. Truly\nAdministrator\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration\nErich Bloch\nDirector\nNational Science Foundation\nDRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE\nON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:\nWHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS\nFOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nFor Immediate Release\nMarch 21, 1990\nThe White House today announced the appointment of D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to\nthe President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and\nTechnology Policy, as chairman of the White House Working Group on Science and\nTechnology. The Working Group currently reports to the Economic Policy Council\nand assists in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of Administration\npolicies involving science and technology. The Working Group will also develop all\nscience and technology issues related to domestic and social policy for consideration\nby the Domestic Policy Council. Members will include White House officials and\nsenior representatives from all Federal agencies and departments with substantial\ninvolvement in scientific and technological issues.\nThe Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of\neconomic and domestic policy issues, including Federal encouragement of investment\nresearch and development by the private sector; cooperation among government\nlaboratories, university laboratories, and business; and access by American firms to\ninternational research and technology.\nIn addition, the Working Group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations\nand actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and\nTechnology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology\ncan be considered by the Economic Policy Council or the Domestic Policy Council.\nIn a related action, Dr. Bromley announced a substantial restructuring of the Federal\nCoordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is charged with\nreviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology that cut across\nthe missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the chairman of\nFCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other agencies\nmay be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with matters of\ninterest to those agencies.\nFCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a\nhigh-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science\nand technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these\numbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate Federal activities in\nselected areas of science and technology.\nThe Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)\nwas originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and\nTechnology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of\nScience and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:\nProviding for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of\nFederal scientific and technological programs.\nIdentifying research and development needs, including areas requiring\nadditional emphasis.\nAchieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of\nFederal agencies.\n0\nDeveloping and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of\nManagement and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected\ncross-cutting areas of science and technology.\n0\nFurthering international cooperation in science and technology.\nFCCSET is also charged with identifying scientific and technological issues of\nimportance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological\nexpertise and advice for the Executive Branch.\nFCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and\ntechnology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which\nthe President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished\nscientists and engineers from academia and industry; it reports directly to the\nPresident and is chaired by Dr. Bromley. PCAST members will chair panels on\nspecific areas of science and technology that in some cases will parallel the committee\nstructure of FCCSET, allowing private sector input into high-level government policy\nmaking.\nFEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL\nMarch 1990\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nMEMBERSHIP\nChairman: D. Allan Bromley\nAssistant to the President for Science and Technology\nDirector, Office of Science and Technology Policy\nMembers: Manuel Lujan\nSecretary of the Interior\nClayton Yeutter\nSecretary of Agriculture\nLouis Sullivan\nSecretary of Health and Human Services\nJames D. Watkins\nDepartment of Energy\nLauro F. Cavazos\nSecretary of Education\nWilliam K. Reilly\nAdministrator\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nDonald J. Atwood, Jr.\nDeputy Secretary of Defense\nThomas J. Murrin\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Commerce\nAlfred A. DelliBovi\nUnder Secretary\nDepartment of Housing and Urban Development\nElaine Chao\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Transportation\nAnthony J. Principi\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs\nRichard McCormack\nUnder Secretary for Economic Affairs\nDepartment of State\nRichard H. Truly\nAdministrator\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration\nErich Bloch\nDirector\nNational Science Foundation\nDaft (not final)\nDRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE\nON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:\nPRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS\nFOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nFor Immediate Release\nMarch 21, 1990\nThe President today announced the formation of a Working Group on Science and\nTechnology that will report jointly to the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic\nPolicy Council to assist in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of\nAdministration policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will be\nchaired by D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology\nand Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Members will include\nWhite House officials and Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from\nFederal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and\ntechnological issues.\nThe Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of\neconomic and domestic policy issues and present its findings to the Economic Policy\nCouncil and Domestic Policy Council. Among these issues are Federal encouragement\nof investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the\ntransfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;\ncooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and\naccess by American firms to international research and technology.\nIn addition, the working group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations\nand actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and\nTechnology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology\ncan be considered by the Economic Policy Council and Domestic Policy Council.\nIn a related action, the President announced a substantial restructuring of the\nFederal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is\ncharged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology\nthat cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the\nchairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other\nagencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with\nmatters of interest to those agencies.\nFCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a\nhigh-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science\nand technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these\numbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected\nareas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen\nand vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and\nTechnology is attached.\nThe Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)\nwas originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and\nTechnology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of\nScience and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:\nProviding for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of\nFederal scientific and technological programs.\nIdentifying research and development needs, including areas requiring\nadditional emphasis.\n0\nAchieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of\nFederal agencies.\n0\nDeveloping and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of\nManagement and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected\ncross-cutting areas of science and technology.\n0\nFurthering international cooperation in science and technology.\nFCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of\nimportance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological\nexpertise and advice for the Executive Branch.\nFCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and\ntechnology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which\nthe President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished\nscientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.\nPCAST members will chair panels on specific areas of science and technology that in\nsome cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private\nsector input into high-level government policy making.\nFEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nCOMMITTEES\nMARCH 1990\nEarth and Environmental Sciences\nChairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the\nInterior\nVice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nLeonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space\nScience and Applications, National\nAeronautics and Space Administration\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nEducation and Human Resources\nChairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy\nVice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education\nLuther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National\nScience Foundation\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nFood, Agriculture and Forest Research\nChairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,\nDepartment of Agriculture\nVice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,\nDepartment of Labor\nJames Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug\nAdministration, Department of Health\nand Human Services\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nInternational Science and Engineering\nChairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation\nPhilip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,\nNational Institutes of Health,\nDepartment of Health and Human\nServices\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nLife Sciences and Health\nChairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental\nResearch, Office of Energy Research,\nDepartment of Energy\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nPhysical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences\nChairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation\nVice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,\nDepartment of Defense\nOSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical\nSciences and Engineering\nTechnology and Industry\nChairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce\nVice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and\nSpace Administration\nOSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for\nIndustrial Technology\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nMEMBERSHIP\nMarch 1990\nChairman: D. Allan Bromley\nAssistant to the President for Science and Technology\nDirector, Office of Science and Technology Policy\nMembers: Manuel Lujan\nSecretary of the Interior\nClayton Yeutter\nSecretary of Agriculture\nLouis Sullivan\nSecretary of Health and Human Services\nJames D. Watkins\nDepartment of Energy\nLauro F. Cavazos\nSecretary of Education\nWilliam K. Reilly\nAdministrator\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nDonald J. Atwood, Jr.\nDeputy Secretary of Defense\nThomas J. Murrin\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Commerce\nAlfred A. DelliBovi\nUnder Secretary\nDepartment of Housing and Urban Development\nElaine Chao\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Transportation\nAnthony J. Principi\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs\nRichard McCormack\nUnder Secretary for Economic Affairs\nDepartment of State\nRichard H. Truly\nAdministrator\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration\nErich Bloch\nDirector\nNational Science Foundation\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nMarch 21, 1990\nMEMORANDUM FOR D. ALLAN BROMLEY\nFROM:\nSTEPHEN I. DANZANSKY\nDeputy Assistant to the President\nand Director of Cabinet Affairs\nSUBJECT:\nWorking Group on Science and Technology\nPer our discussion and one hour late, I am enclosing herewith our\nsuggested changes to the draft announcement of your chairmanship\nof the S&T working group. The changes reflect the thinking of\nboth the DPC and EPC (and their corresponding chairmen pro\ntempore: Treasury and Justice). I believe this will fly with all\nconcerned at the cabinet council level.\nJust a word of caution. Although this has our approval as\namended, I don't believe it can be sent out as a White House\nPress Release without clearance through the process (Cicconi et\nal.). As an announcement, to your P-CAST group, however, I see no\nproblem.\nWe'd be happy to discuss with you any of the changes we've made.\nFor your convenience I've supplied a newly typed first page as\nwell as your marked-up version for comparison.\nDraft Text of Press Release\nOn S&T Working Group and FCCSET Reorganization\nWHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nFor Immediate Release\nMarch 21, 1990\nThe White House today announced the appointment of D. Allan\nBromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology\nand Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, as\nchairman of the White House Working Group on Science and\nwill\nTechnology. The Working Group currently reports to the Economic\nPolicy Council and assists in the formulation, coordination, and\nimplementation of Administration policies involving science and\ntechnology. The Working Group will also develop all science and\nconsituation by\ntechnology issues related to domestic and social policy for the\nDomestic Policy Council. Members will include White House\nofficials and senior representatives from all Federal agencies\nand departments with substantial involvement in scientific and\ntechnological issues.\nDRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE\nON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:\nThe working Group currently reports to the\nI PRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS\nEconomic Policy Council and\nFOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nalso 211 developiscience and technology issues related to\ndomestic and social natiev for the Domestic Policy Council\nFor Immediate Release\nMarch 21, 1990\nthe appointment of\nWhite House\nThe President today announced L the formation of a Working Group on Science and\nTechnology.\\that will report jointly to the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic\nN\ne Policy Council to assistsin the formulation, coordination, and implementation of\nAdministration policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will be\n&\nchaired by\nD. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology\nand Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Memberswill include\nsenior\nas chairman of the White House\nWhite House officials and (Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from\nall\nFederal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and\ntechnological issues.\nThe Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of\neconomic and domestic policy issues and present its findings to the Economic Policy\nincluding:\nI Council and Domestic Policy Council Among these issues are Federal encouragement\nof investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the\ntransfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;\ncooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and\naccess by American firms to international research and technology.\nIn addition, the Working (group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations\nand actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and\nTechnology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology\nor the\ncan be considered by the Economic Policy Council, and Domestic Policy Council.\nDr. Bromley\nIn a related action, the President 2 announced a substantial restructuring of the\nFederal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is\ncharged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology\nthat cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the\nchairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other\nagencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with\nmatters of interest to those agencies.\nFCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a\nhigh-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science\nand technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these\numbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected\nareas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen\nand vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and\nTechnology is attached.\nThe Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)\nwas originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and\nTechnology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of\nScience and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:\nProviding for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of\nFederal scientific and technological programs.\nIdentifying research and development needs, including areas requiring\nadditional emphasis.\n0\nAchieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of\nFederal agencies.\n0\nDeveloping and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of\nManagement and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected\ncross-cutting areas of science and technology.\nFurthering international cooperation in science and technology.\nFCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of\nimportance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological\nexpertise and advice for the Executive Branch.\nFCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and\ntechnology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which\nthe President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished\nscientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.\nPCAST members will chair panels on specific areas of science and technology that in\nsome cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private\nsector input into high-level government policy making.\nFEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nCOMMITTEES\nMARCH 1990\nEarth and Environmental Sciences\nChairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the\nInterior\nVice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nLeonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space\nScience and Applications, National\nAeronautics and Space Administration\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nEducation and Human Resources\nChairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy\nVice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education\nLuther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National\nScience Foundation\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nFood, Agriculture and Forest Research\nChairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,\nDepartment of Agriculture\nVice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,\nDepartment of Labor\nJames Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug\nAdministration, Department of Health\nand Human Services\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nInternational Science and Engineering\nChairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation\nPhilip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,\nNational Institutes of Health,\nDepartment of Health and Human\nServices\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nLife Sciences and Health\nChairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental\nResearch, Office of Energy Research,\nDepartment of Energy\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nPhysical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences\nChairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation\nVice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,\nDepartment of Defense\nOSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical\nSciences and Engineering\nTechnology and Industry\nChairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce\nVice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and\nSpace Administration\nOSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for\nIndustrial Technology\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nMEMBERSHIP\nMarch 1990\nChairman:\nD. Allan Bromley\nAssistant to the President for Science and Technology\nDirector, Office of Science and Technology Policy\nMembers:\nManuel Lujan\nSecretary of the Interior\nClayton Yeutter\nSecretary of Agriculture\nLouis Sullivan\nSecretary of Health and Human Services\nJames D. Watkins\nDepartment of Energy\nLauro F. Cavazos\nSecretary of Education\nWilliam K. Reilly\nAdministrator\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nDonald J. Atwood, Jr.\nDeputy Secretary of Defense\nThomas J. Murrin\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Commerce\nAlfred A. DelliBovi\nUnder Secretary\nDepartment of Housing and Urban Development\nElaine Chao\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Transportation\nAnthony J. Principi\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs\nRichard McCormack\nUnder Secretary for Economic Affairs\nDepartment of State\nRichard H. Truly\nAdministrator\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration\nErich Bloch\nDirector\nNational Science Foundation\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDate: 3-22-90\nOLIN WETHINGTON\nTO:\nFROM:\nSTEPHEN I. DANZANSKY\nDeputy Assistant to the President\nand Director of Cabinet Affairs\nI'd appreciate your following through to\nammend the S&T charter to include the\nadditional elements contained in the\ndraft joint charter dated March 12, 1990.\nAllan Bromley wants the additional elements\nincluded in his mandate and I told him\nwe'd take care of it next week. I'll\narrange to get the two of you together.\nThanks.\nSENT BY:The White House\n; 3-21-90 ; 10:28 ;\nCABINET AFFAIRS-\n2023953462:# 1\nPLEASE RUSAI\nTHE WHITE HOUSE.\nWASHINGTON\nOffice of Cabinet Affairs\nFax Transmission Cover\nTO:\nTom RATCHFORD\nLOCATION:\nOSTP\nFAX NUMBER:\n3719\nFROM:\nKEN YALE\nNumber of pages to follow:\nOffice of Cabinet Affairs\nTelephone:\n(202) 456-2800\nFax:\n(202) 456-2223\nComments:\nSENT BY:The White House\n; 3-21-90 ; 10:28 ;\nCABINET AFFAIRS-\n2023953462:# 2\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nMarch 29, 1989\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT\nTHE SECRETARY OF STATE\nTHE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL\nTHE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE\nTHE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE\nTHE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES\nTHE SECRETARY OF ENERGY\nTHE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET\nTHE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE\nTHE CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS\nTHE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ECONOMIC AND\nDOMESTIC AFFAIRS\nTHE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nPOLICY\nTHE ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE\nADMINISTRATION\nTHE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION\nSUBJECT:\nResearch, Development, Technology, and Innovation\nEconomic growth and the standard of living in the United States\nin the 1990s will depend significantly on our ability to research\nand develop new technologies and convert these technologies into\nproducts for the marketplace.\nThe President has directed the Economic Policy Council (EPC) to\ndevelop a comprehensive strategy for improving research,\ndevelopment, technology, and innovation in our country. The EPC\nshould prepare a report identifying our policy objectives in\nthese areas and developing policy options for achieving those\nobjectives.\nThe report should review all major research, development,\ntechnology, and innovation issues, including:\nThe most appropriate means for the federal government to\nencourage investment in research and development in the\nUnited States.\nThe best processes for converting ideas in the laboratories\nto products in the marketplace and removal of barriers to\nthe private sector for converting such ideas into products.\nSENT BY:The White House\n; 3-21-90 ; 10:29 ;\nCABINET AFFAIRS-\n2023953462:# 3\nResearch, Development,\nTechnology, and Innovation\nPage 2\nO\nThe appropriate roles of government laboratories, university\nlaboratories, and business and how they can best work\ntogether.\no\nAccess of American firms to international basic research and\ntechnology projects.\nThe report should develop broad principles for guiding\nAdministration consideration of specific research, development,\ntechnology, and innovation issues, for example, HDTV and\nsuperconductivity.\nThe President has directed the Secretary of Commerce to lead the\npreparation of the report, working closely with the Director of\nthe Office of Science and Technology Policy and other EPC\nmembers.\nTo develop the report and regularly review these issues after\ncompletion of the report, I am establishing an EPC Working Group\non Research, Development, Technology, and Innovation. The\nSecretary of Commerce should designate a chairman.\nThe Working Group should include representatives from the Office\nof the Vice President, Departments of State, the Treasury,\nDefense, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, Health and Human\nServices, and Energy, Office of Management and Budget, United\nStates Trade Representative, Council of Economic Advisors, Office\nof Policy Development, Office of Science and Technology Policy,\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National\nScience Foundation. The members of the Working Group should be\nat the Assistant Secretary level or above.\nThe chairman of the Working Group should coordinate its\nactivities with the Executive Secretary to the EPC.\nThe Working Group should present the report to the EPC within 90\ndays of this directive.\nThank you very much for your cooperation.\nhealth 1. bady\nNicholas F. Brady\nChairman Pro Tempore\nEconomic Policy Council\nSENT BY:The White House\n; 3-21-90 ; 10:29 ;\nCABINET AFFAIRS-\n2023953462:# 4\nWHITE HOUSE\nBUSH STRENTHENS POLICY APPARATUS\nFOR SCENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\ncurrent agreement:\nMarch 12, 1990\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT\nTHE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE\nTHE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE\nTHE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE\nTHE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES\nTHE SECRETARY OF ENERGY\nTHE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION\nTHE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET\nTHE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE\nTHE CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISORS\nTHE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR SCIENCE AND\nTECHNOLOGY\nTHE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ECONOMIC AND\nDOMESTIC POLICY\nTHE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY TO\nTHE CABINET\nTHE ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE\nADMINISTRATION\nTHE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION\nSUBJECT:\nWorking Group on Science and Technology Policy\nA Working Group on Science and Technology Policy will be\nformed to assist the President in the formulation, coordination\nand implementation of Administration policy involving science and\ntechnology through the Domestic Policy Council and the Economic\nPolicy Council, and utilizing to the fullest extent practicable\nthe resources of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science,\nEngineering and Technology.\nThe Working Group will examine and develop Administration\npolicy on scientific research and conduct a fundamental and\noverall assessment of how Federal scientific research priorities\nare set. The need for such an assessment is clear in times of\nbudgetary limitations, especially as the Federal government\nundertakes substantial funding obligations for new basic research\nprograms, such as those concerning AIDS, mapping the human\ngenome, and the superconducting super collider.\nSENT BY:The White House\n; 3-21-90 ; 10:30 ;\nCABINET AFFAIRS-\n2023953462:# 5\nThe Working Group will also review major issues involving\nresearch, development, technology and innovation, including:\nencouragement of investment in research and development by the\nFederal government; barriers to the transfer of ideas in the\nlaboratory to products in the marketplace; cooperation among\ngovernment laboratories, university laboratories, and business;\nand access by American firms to international research and\ntechnology.\nSpecifically, the working group may: (1) evaluate current\nbasic scientific research efforts of the Federal government,\nincluding those of the National Science Foundation, National\nInstitutes of Health, Departments of Energy, Defense, and others;\n[[(2) examine current research priorities in light of large-\nscale research efforts in certain areas (e.g., AIDS,\nsuperconducting super collider) and whether these efforts are\ncrowding out other basic research; (3) recommend ways to set\nFederal scientific research priorities and ensure appropriate\nfocus of Federal research and development on basic research;]\n(3) investigate innovative approaches to encourage basic research\nand development by industry and State and local governments; (4)\nevaluate the establishment and effect of university-based,\ninterdisciplinary research centers of excellence; (5) examine\nresearch partnerships between government laboratories, the\nprivate sector, and universities to take better advantage of\nfundamental scientific advances, and other issues related to\nscience and technology for policy.\nThe Assistant to the President for Science and Technology\nPolicy will chair the working group. Other working group members\nshall include representatives from the Office of the Vice\nPresident, the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, Commerce,\nHealth and Human Services, Energy, Education, the Office of\nManagement and Budget, the Office of the United States Trade\nRepresentative, the Council of Economic Advisors, the Office of\nPolicy Development, the Office of Science and Technology Policy,\nthe National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National\nScience Foundation, and other Federal departments and agencies\nand White House offices, as appropriate.\nTo foster greater interagency coordination and cooperation,\nall interagency issues substantially involving domestic or\neconomic science and technology policy will be reviewed by the\nWorking Group. Those meriting Presidential attention or decision\nwill be referred to the Domestic Policy Council or the Economic\nPolicy Council, which serve as the primary channels to advise the\nPresident on the formulation, coordination, and implementation of\ndomestic, social and economic policies.\nThe Working Group shall coordinate its activities with the\nExecutive Secretaries to the Domestic Policy Council and the\nEconomic Policy Council. The Executive Secretaries will ensure\ncoordination of related policy activities with their counterparts\nin the Competitiveness Council and the Federal Coordinating\nSENT BY:The White House\n; 3-21-90 ; 10:30 ;\nCABINET AFFAIRS-\n2023953462:# 6\nCouncil on Science, Engineering and Technology.\nPlease forward the name of your agency's representative at\nthe Assistant Secretary level, or above, to Sara Sumner\n(456-6722), by close of business on March 19, 1990.\nThank you very much for your cooperation.\nNicholas F. Brady\nDick Thornburgh\nChairman Pro Tempore\nChairman Pro Tempore\nEconomic Policy Council\nDomestic Policy Council\nRile Epr\nWG\n3 Scene of\nXg\ntechnly\nDRAFT TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE\nON S&T WORKING GROUP AND FCCSET REORGANIZATION:\nPRESIDENT STRENGTHENS WHITE HOUSE POLICY APPARATUS\nFOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY\nFor Immediate Release\nMarch 21, 1990\nThe President today announced the formation of a Working Group on Science and\nTechnology that will report jointly to the Economic Policy Council and the Domestic\nPolicy Councilsto assist in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of\nAdministration policies involving science and technology. The Working Group will be\nchaired by D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology\nand Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Members will include\nWhite House officials and Secretaries and Directors or their representatives from\nFederal agencies and departments with substantial involvement in scientific and\ntechnological issues.\nThe Working Group will analyze the scientific and technological components of\neconomic and domestic policy issues and present its findings to the Economic Policy\nCouncil and Domestic Policy Council. Among these issues are Federal encouragement\nof investment in research and development by the private sector; barriers to the\ntransfer of ideas generated in the laboratory to products in the marketplace;\ncooperation among government laboratories, university laboratories, and business; and\naccess by American firms to international research and technology.\nIn addition, the working group will act as a conduit through which the deliberations\nand actions of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and\nTechnology (FCCSET) that relate to policy issues broader than science and technology\ncan be considered by the Economic Policy Council and Domestic Policy Council.\nIn a related action, the President announced a substantial restructuring of the\nFederal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, which is\ncharged with reviewing and coordinating Federal activities in science and technology\nthat cut across the missions of more than one Federal agency. Dr. Bromley is the\nchairman of FCCSET, and a list of the new FCCSET membership is attached. Other\nagencies may be requested to participate in meetings of the FCCSET concerned with\nmatters of interest to those agencies.\nFCCSET is in the process of forming seven umbrella committees, each chaired by a\nhigh-level official of a Federal agency or department, to oversee broad areas of science\nand technology. Subcommittees and working groups will work within each of these\numbrella committees to examine, coordinate, and integrate federal activities in selected\nareas of science and technology. A list of the umbrella committees, their chairmen\nand vice-chairmen, and liaison representatives from the Office of Science and\nTechnology is attached.\nThe Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (FCCSET)\nwas originally established in 1976 by Public Law 94-282, the National Science and\nTechnology Policy Organization and Priorities Act, which also established the Office of\nScience and Technology Policy. FCCSET is charged with:\nProviding for more effective planning, coordination, and administration of\nFederal scientific and technological programs.\nIdentifying research and development needs, including areas requiring\nadditional emphasis.\n0\nAchieving more effective use of the scientific and technological resources of\nFederal agencies.\n0\nDeveloping and reviewing, in close cooperation with the Office of\nManagement and Budget, annual and long-range Federal budget plans in selected\ncross-cutting areas of science and technology.\n0\nFurthering international cooperation in science and technology.\nFCCSET is also charged with identifing scientific and technological issues of\nimportance to the nation and with developing authoritative scientific and technological\nexpertise and advice for the Executive Branch.\nFCCSET also expects to receive information and advice on issues of science and\ntechnology from the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, which\nthe President established on February 2. PCAST consists of 12 distinguished\nscientists and engineers from academia and industry and is chaired by Dr. Bromley.\nPCAST members will chair panels on specific areas-of science and technology that in\nsome cases will parallel the the committee structure of FCCSET, allowing private\nsector input into high-level government policy making.\nFEDERAL COORDINATING COUNCIL\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nCOMMITTEES\nMARCH 1990\nEarth and Environmental Sciences\nChairman: Dallas Peck, Director, US Geological Survey, Department of the\nInterior\nVice Chairman: Eric Bretthauer, Assistant Administrator for Research,\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nLeonard Fisk, Associate Administrator for Space\nScience and Applications, National\nAeronautics and Space Administration\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nEducation and Human Resources\nChairman: Adm. James Watkins (Ret.), Secretary, Department of Energy\nVice Chairmen: Ted Sanders, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education\nLuther Williams, Senior Science Advisor, National\nScience Foundation\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nFood, Agriculture and Forest Research\nChairman: Charles Hess, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education,\nDepartment of Agriculture\nVice Chairman: David O'Neil, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals,\nDepartment of Labor\nJames Benson, Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug\nAdministration, Department of Health\nand Human Services\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nInternational Science and Engineering\nChairman: Reginald Bartholomew, Under Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairmen: Fred Bernthal, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation\nPhilip Schambra, Director, Fogarty International Center,\nNational Institutes of Health,\nDepartment of Health and Human\nServices\nOSTP Liaison: J. Thomas Ratchford, Associate Director for Policy and\nInternational Affairs\nLife Sciences and Health\nChairman: James O. Mason, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and\nHuman Services\nVice Chairman: David Galas, Associate Director for Health and Environmental\nResearch, Office of Energy Research,\nDepartment of Energy\nOSTP Liaison: James B. Wyngaarden, Associate Director for Life Sciences\nPhysical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences\nChairman: Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation\nVice Chairman: Charles Herzfeld, Director Defense Research and Engineering,\nDepartment of Defense\nOSTP Liaison: Eugene Wong, Associate Director (designate) for Physical\nSciences and Engineering\nTechnology and Industry\nChairman: Thomas Murrin, Deputy Secretary, Department of Commerce\nVice Chairman: J.R. Thompson, Deputy Director, National Aeronautics and\nSpace Administration\nOSTP Liaison: William D. Phillips, Associate Director (designate) for\nIndustrial Technology\nFOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY\nMEMBERSHIP\nMarch 1990\nChairman: D. Allan Bromley\nAssistant to the President for Science and Technology\nDirector, Office of Science and Technology Policy\nMembers: Manuel Lujan\nSecretary of the Interior\nClayton Yeutter\nSecretary of Agriculture\nLouis Sullivan\nSecretary of Health and Human Services\nJames D. Watkins\nDepartment of Energy\nLauro F. Cavazos\nSecretary of Education\nWilliam K. Reilly\nAdministrator\nEnvironmental Protection Agency\nDonald J. Atwood, Jr.\nDeputy Secretary of Defense\nThomas J. Murrin\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Commerce\nAlfred A. DelliBovi\nUnder Secretary\nDepartment of Housing and Urban Development\nElaine Chao\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Transportation\nAnthony J. Principi\nDeputy Secretary\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs\nRichard McCormack\nUnder Secretary for Economic Affairs\nDepartment of State\nRichard H. Truly\nAdministrator\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration\nErich Bloch\nDirector\nNational Science Foundation\n6\nreport that this week we have a team at COCOM in Paris\nnegotiating the modernization of export controls on computers.\nThese controls have been an important part of our security for\ndecades, and I know our allies want to work with us to ensure\ntheir relevance in the 1990's.\nTo provide a further competitive edge for American firms, we\nwill support legislation to reduce the anti-trust uncertainty\nthat may discourage joint production ventures. Under such a\nproposal, the courts would weigh, on a case-by-case basis, the\ncompetitive benefits as well as costs of joint production\nventures. In addition, joint production ventures announced to\nthe government would be liable only for actual damages in private\nanti-trust suits. Such an initiative would build on the\ncompetitive strength of American business, by allowing firms to\npool their skills, build new production facilities, and share\ninvestment risks.\nOne risk you all face, of course -- at an intolerable\nlevel -- is product liability. And the Council on\nCompetitiveness, ably chaired by Vice President Quayle, has\nalready begun a concentrated effort to significantly reform our\ncumbersome and expensive product liability system.\nToday, I'm going to give the Competitiveness Council another\nchallenge: to form a working group, to find ways that American\nindustry can better translate new ideas and technologies into\nmarketable products.\ncharter\nGear\nDocument Originally\nAttached to\nPrevious Page\nsetu\nthey two New WGt\nother DTR\nEPE\nDocument Originally\nAttached to\nPrevious Page\nSteve 'scopy\n(Lange/Cawley)\nMarch 5, 1990\n8:15 P.M.\n[AEA.DOC]\n-\nPRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:\nAMERICAN ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION\nWASHINGTON COURT HOTEL\nWEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1990\n11:30 A.M.\n((Thank you, Mitchell [Kertzman]. It's good to see Dick\nIverson and so many familiar faces. Many of you came a long way\nto be here -- so I won't ask you to sit through a long speech.\nThe punishment should fit the crime.\n((You know I'm a real fan of high tech. In fact, I've had a\ncar phone for years. Back when I was Vice President, though, I\ndidn't get that many calls on my car phone. In fact, I remember\na campaign trip in Iowa once. The phone rings. I sit up to\nattention, assuming it was the boss. I'm ready to answer the\ntough questions. I pick up the phone -- you got it. Wrong\nnumber.) )\n((But those were the early years of car phones. I don't get\ntoo many wrong numbers anymore.) 11\nIt's an honor and a pleasure to be here today. You are the\nleaders of a vital range of our most innovative and interrelated\nindustries -- from semiconductors, microprocessors and circuit\nboards... to PCs, mainframes, supercomputers, telecommunications,\nand defense electronics.\nBut at every stage of that impressive technological \"food\nchain,\" yours are the people -- and the products -- that keep\n2\nthis country competitive. I'd add a special tip of the hat to\nPresident Gary Tooker of Motorola, winner of last year's Malcolm\nBaldridge National Quality Award.\nFor almost 50 years now, your industries have been at the\ncenter of a remarkable revolution: in the way work is done, the\nway ideas are managed -- even the way time and the vast reaches\nof space are understood.\nAnd along the way, you've also become the nation's largest\nmanufacturing employer -- creating jobs for over two and a half\nmillion Americans. Modernizing services and industries of every\nkind. Assuring our national security. And providing a vital\nexport market.\nAs technologies, economies, and geopolitics change almost\nweekly, your industries stand at a threshold of tremendous\nopportunity.\nSo we intend to work with you -- closely, constantly, and\nconsistently -- to see that American electronics and technologies\nregain and retain a preeminent position in world markets. III\nWe're committed to a comprehensive program of both immediate\nand long-term competitive strategies for the future. And while\nwe're only at the start of a process that shows great promise,\ntoday I want to outline briefly what we're already doing.\nOur first priority is to encourage productivity gains,\nsavings, and long-term investment in high-tech industries, by\nlowering the cost of capital.\n3\nWe believe that one of the most crucial Federal priorities\nis to encourage planning for the long term -- because, for too\nlong, where investment is concerned, the Federal government has\nbeen more of a hindrance than a help.\nSo last month, we sent to Congress our Savings and Economic\nGrowth Act -- which includes an innovative family savings plan,\nto stimulate capital formation. New incentives for IRAs to help\nfirst-time home buyers. And a business-building, job-creating,\nrevenue-enhancing cut in the capital gains differential.\nWithout it, every business in America -- of every size -- is\nat a competitive disadvantage abroad. Let me read you a list of\nthe maximum long-term capital gains tax rate for some of\nAmerica's competitors. Japan: about five percent; South Korea:\nzero; Taiwan: zero; West Germany: zero; Singapore: zero; Hong\nKong: zero. The list goes on. So we're fighting hard, with your\ncontinued support, for that crucial tax cut.\nAlong with encouraging investment, we've proposed a budget\nthat will bring the deficit down. Below the Gramm-Rudman-\nHollings targets by 1993. Without raising taxes. 11 And, we're\ncommitted to unprecedented support for research and development\nefforts. We believe that the R & E tax credit should be made\npermanent. 11 And our budget includes a record-breaking $70\nbillion in Federal direct investment for research and\ndevelopment.\n4\nOur budget also devotes unprecedented resources to space.\nEducation. The fight against drugs. Environmental initiatives.\nAnd other crucial investments in America's future.\nSuch investments, over the years, have ensured that this\ncountry has retained its leadership in terms of the basic\nresearch and fundamental discoveries underlying your industry.\nThis Administration is also committed to working with you in the\ncritical pre-competitive development stage where the basic\ndiscoveries are converted into generic technologies that support\nboth our economic competitiveness and our national security.\nHere again we can help to level the international playing field\non which you compete.\nBut we understand, as you do, that no investment is more\nimportant than our human resources. So together with the\nnation's governors, we've set ambitious goals for America's\nstudents. As one incentive, we've proposed a new National\nScience Scholars program. We have also requested a 70 percent\nincrease for the Eisenhower Math and Sciences Educational Program\nand a $100 million increase in the National Science Foundation\neducation budget.\nBy the year 2000, our kids can be first in the world in\nscience and math achievement -- and with enough involvement and\nleadership from groups like this one, they will be.\nYour industries face some unique challenges. The\nmarketplace is tough enough without undue constraints and unfair\nrestrictions.\n5\nSo we've pledged to make sure that trade is free, and\nfair -- by judiciously but firmly implementing the 1988 Trade\nAct. We're moving forward with Japan through the Structural\nImpediments Initiative and by working to develop a more\nproductive relationship overall. Just last weekend, I met with\nPrime Minister Kaifu and specifically discussed satellites and\ntelecommunications, super computers, forest products, and yes,\nsemi-conductors. I hope, on the basis of our talks, that Japan\nwill be moving toward early resolution of these problem areas.\nWe agreed that we must both do our very best to make the SII\ntalks a success. We have presented ideas for removing structural\nimpediments in Japan. However, we must remember that SII is a\ntwo way street. Our task must be to make the American economy\neven stronger and even more competitive.\nBut we're also committed to strengthening and expanding the\nmultilateral trading system, through the Uruguay Round. We've\nproposed far-reaching reforms of the global trading system,\nworking to bring a wide range of new trade areas under the GATT.\nThese crucial negotiations will help us create a more equitable,\nmore efficient trade climate, worldwide.\nI've made it a priority to review and modernize our export\ncontrols, to provide vital help to the emerging democracies,\nwithout compromising national security. Given the pace of\npolitical change, rapid advances in technology, and the\ncompetitive position of American industry, we must ensure that\nexport controls are effective or eliminated. I am happy to\n6\nreport that this week we have a team at COCOM in Paris\nnegotiating the modernization of export controls on computers.\nThese controls have been an important part of our security for\ndecades, and I know our allies want to work with us to ensure\ntheir relevance in the 1990's.\nTo provide a further competitive edge for American firms, we\nwill support legislation to reduce the anti-trust uncertainty\nthat may discourage joint production ventures. Under such a\nproposal, the courts would weigh, on a case-by-case basis, the\ncompetitive benefits as well as costs of joint production\nventures. In addition, joint production ventures announced to\nthe government would be liable only for actual damages in private\nanti-trust suits. Such an initiative would build on the\ncompetitive strength of American business, by allowing firms to\npool their skills, build new production facilities, and share\ninvestment risks.\nOne risk you all face, of course -- at an intolerable\nlevel -- is product liability. And the Council on\nCompetitiveness, ably chaired by Vice President Quayle, has\nalready begun a concentrated effort to significantly reform our\ncumbersome and expensive product liability system.\nToday, I'm going to give the Competitiveness Council another\nchallenge: to form a working group, to find ways that American\nindustry can better translate new ideas and technologies into\nmarketable products.\ncharter\nGear\n7\nSo many of the world's most advanced technologies, from\nrobotics to the VCR, were first developed here. Yet, so many\nof those concepts were ultimately brought to the marketplace by\nour competitors. We can do better. And we will do better.\nToday, I've outlined some of what we're doing to level the\nfield. But it will be leaders like you that have to take the\nball and run with it.\nYou represent the vital core of America's competitive\npotential, with over 3500 of the most dynamic, technologically\nadvanced, forward-thinking companies in the country.\nYour ideas are important to us. And your success is crucial\nto America's future. So let me encourage you to work together,\nand with us, on a long-term program to meet the competitive\nchallenge of a new century.\nThank you. And God bless you.\n# # #"
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