The National Bureau of Standards was scheduled to undergo major surgery on the first of this month when four of its ordnance research and development activities were to be removed from the Bureau and transferred to the Department of Defense. The transfer affects approximately 1600 members of the Bureau's staff. The four divisions, whose work has accounted for more than half of the Bureau's $50 million annual budget, are ordnance development (division 13), missile development (division 15), electrochemical development (division 16), and electronic ordnance (division 17).
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© 1953 American Institute of Physics.
1953
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