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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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March 21, 1990
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chaired by D. Allan Bromley, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Members State will include
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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 (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
or the
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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LOCATION:
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FROM:
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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
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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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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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