Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee considered three major issues last week? the fact of Defense Department sponsorship, the potential effect of the Project on the academic departments which would be involved, and the ability of the Project's mechanisms of governance to handle various problems. The group will review some of its conclusions at its next meeting on Wednesday...
These issues include: the Defense Department sponsorship of the Project, the Project's possible effect on the Vietnam War, institutional grants and cooperative enterprises with other universities in general, the quality and honesty of the Project proposal, and the general accessibility of Project research...
...views were somewhat incompletely and at one point inaccurately reported. I asserted that DOD supports over half of current American foreign areas (not all behavioral), research. The sponsorship is not unimportant, moreover, because it tends to develop greater in-house capabilities for achieving DOD aims, perpetuates a loathsome Congressional discrimination against social-scientist-controlled funding sources, and puts many researchers. especially those interested in foreign areas, in a "conflict of interest" situation. On the other hand. I agreed with the views of Professor Deutsch, noted in the article, that reality assessments using expensive, "hard" techniques may help reduce Pentagon tension...
...Cambridge Project is a new Defense Department-sponsored program which will provide a computer-based laboratory to behavioral scientists at MIT and Harvard with the purpose of promoting basic research in social science methodologies. Several social scientists from Harvard and MIT have already begun work under the sponsorship of the program, which is expected to provide some 7.6 million over a five-year period. Harvard has not yet decided whether or not it will become affiliated with the project. This article is a description and discussion of the Project's history and purposes...
...Defense areas. The reason for this is that the Defense Department, in spite of its tendency to be suspicious of social science research, has nonetheless come to control the behavioral sciences field. Well over half the government-supported behavioral science research in the U.S. today is under Defense Department sponsorship. This trend. by concentrating experience in social science research within the Defense Department, serves to insure that the Defense Department will continue to be the only organization able to use the new applications which its social science programs develop. Alker sees ARPA's move into basic methodological research...