DOD will spread research funds

To the chagrin of many government‐agency physicists, the Department of Defense hopes to use two thirds of its budgetary increase for research to start a new program for the institutions that now receive relatively little research support. With executive inevitability, a Johnson memo of last fall to his cabinet and agency directors, entitled Strengthening the Academic Capability for Science Throughout the Nation, has resulted in an $18 million DOD “university program” that Secretary McNamara said will “broaden the research base by helping other institutions participate in [DOD research programs].” Meanwhile effects of the Johnson memo are already perceived in the broader geographic application of federal funds by many other agencies.