The National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) was an organization created "to coordinate, supervise, and conduct scientific research on the problems...

1933. During World War II, Kistiakowsky was the head of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) section responsible for the development of explosives...

as National Defense Research Committee. The Army appropriation for 1916 provided for the creation and funding of the Council of National Defense. The...

Order 8807 on June 28, 1941. It superseded the work of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), was given almost unlimited access to funding and...

the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)...

June 1940, the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) was created to coordinate defense-related research, and the Advisory Committee on Uranium became...

to the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) in 1940, becoming its chairman in 1941. In this capacity, he oversaw vital wartime research projects...

War II, Robertson served with the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) and the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). He served as...

Scientific Research And Development. War metallurgy. Issued by National Defense Research Committee. Washington D.C.: Office of Scientific Research and Development...

Loomis arranged for funding under the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) and reorganized the Microwave Committee at MIT to study the magnetron and...

physicist, National Defense Research Committee, 1944–1946; professor of mathematics, Catholic University of America, 1946–1947; research mathematician...

1922, is best known for serving as vice chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (under chairman Vannevar Bush) and as a scientific advisor...

high acceleration of cannon launch, and be reliable. The National Defense Research Committee assigned the task to the physicist Merle Tuve at the Department...

target and preventing deviation from the glide path. The National Defense Research Committee saw the idea to use pigeons in glide bombs as very eccentric...

Pod, on US Navy F/A-18 Hornets. In World War II, the U.S. National Defense Research Committee developed the VB-6 Felix, which used infrared to home on...

mid-1930s. During World War II he was a member of the National Defense Research Committee's Uranium Committee and a consultant on the Manhattan Project. He wrote...

Research and Development and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James B. Conant, Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee...

of Defense. The first NDAA was passed in 1961. The U.S. Congress oversees the defense budget primarily through two yearly bills: the National Defense Authorization...

refer to: National Development and Reform Commission, central planning agency in the People's Republic of China National Defense Research Committee, a government...

ended before it could be used operationally. Created by the National Defense Research Committee, Felix relied on infrared to detect and home on heat-emitting...

Kingdom. It was the equivalent of the US's National Defense Research Committee or the Canadian Defence Research Board. Among its better known chairmen were...

anti-aircraft weapon. In 1940, Vannevar Bush formed the National Defense Research Committee and its section D-2 was tasked with examining issues related...

in Airplanes (Report). Office of Scientific Research and Development, National Defense Research Committee. p. 68. Retrieved 2022-02-15. Aircraft Program...

In 1940, Vannevar Bush, heading the National Defense Research Committee, established the "Microwave Committee" (section D-1) and the "Fire Control"...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for...

problems, under the auspices first of the National Defense Research Committee, and later the Office of Scientific Research and Development, organized and administered...

that led to the development of Pelican was initiated by the National Defense Research Committee in 1942. Two main guided-bomb programs were established for...

weapon. It was superseded by the National Defense Research Committee in 1940, and then the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941. The Frisch–Peierls...

military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members...

research into similar technologies, especially the development of radar. During 1940, he joined the newly formed National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)...