The Kelly Committee Report… a summary Available to Purchase

On October 15th, six months after the Secretary of Commerce called for the formation of the ad hoc Committee for “the evaluation of the functions and operations of the National Bureau of Standards in relation to the national needs”, the Committee submitted a comprehensive 109‐page report which should stand as a positive and convincing answer to the Bureau's critics. The report makes some important points clear at the outset: in the first place, the Bureau's staff is competent and its work is not only of high caliber but is essential to the nation, thus meriting the fullest support of the Federal Government; secondly, the Bureau, severely handicapped by obsolete and inadequate space and facilities, has not been able to keep pace with the expanding needs of the nation's technology and its basic programs of testing and research are in urgent need of being strengthened; thirdly, in spite of the high standing of the present personnel of the Bureau in the scientific world, the Committee is concerned that NBS is not attracting its proper share of the talented young scientists.