NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1978: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 365 ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 |
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... achieved with a reasonable mechanical system while still maintaining a reasonably smooth configuration which satisfied both subsonic and supersonic aerodynamic requirements . NASA / NACA CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVIATION PROGRESS MILITARY ...
... achieved with a reasonable mechanical system while still maintaining a reasonably smooth configuration which satisfied both subsonic and supersonic aerodynamic requirements . NASA / NACA CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVIATION PROGRESS MILITARY ...
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... achieved . The current Short - Haul / STOL technology program is chiefly comprised of the Quiet , Short - Haul Research Aircraft ( QSRA ) project , NASA participation in the USAF flight tests of the Advanced Medium STOL Transport ( AMST ) ...
... achieved . The current Short - Haul / STOL technology program is chiefly comprised of the Quiet , Short - Haul Research Aircraft ( QSRA ) project , NASA participation in the USAF flight tests of the Advanced Medium STOL Transport ( AMST ) ...
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... achieved with the development of very thin silicon solar cells , 2 to 3 mils thick . These cells are one - fifth the weight of current cells . Our fiscal year 1978 efforts will be aimed at improving cell effi- ciency . This work is ...
... achieved with the development of very thin silicon solar cells , 2 to 3 mils thick . These cells are one - fifth the weight of current cells . Our fiscal year 1978 efforts will be aimed at improving cell effi- ciency . This work is ...
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... achieve required thrust levels . It must also be very lightweight to obtain acceptable trip times . These two conditions - large size and lightweight - combined with severe temperature and ultraviolet radiation en- vironments establish ...
... achieve required thrust levels . It must also be very lightweight to obtain acceptable trip times . These two conditions - large size and lightweight - combined with severe temperature and ultraviolet radiation en- vironments establish ...
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... achieved . In response to recommendations by the GAO as a result of its review of the Federal activity on Short - Haul STOL Aircraft , NASA has reassessed the technical content , scale , and pace of its STOL technology program . The ...
... achieved . In response to recommendations by the GAO as a result of its review of the Federal activity on Short - Haul STOL Aircraft , NASA has reassessed the technical content , scale , and pace of its STOL technology program . The ...
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activities aerodynamic Aeronautics and Space agencies Air Force applications aviation budget capability Committee components concept contractor coordination cost Defense demonstration effort ERDA evaluation experiments facilities FIGURE fiscal year 1978 flight test fuel funding future gas turbine ground propulsion helicopter hybrid vehicles improved increase industry initial inventions KRAMER license major materials ment military million mission NAFP NASA's Navy needs nuclear OAST operational orbit PARKER patent payloads phase photovoltaic potential problems propulsion systems R&T Base reduce reimbursable request requirements research and development research and technology Research Center rotor satellite Senator SCHMITT Senator STEVENSON sensors significant solar cells solar power satellite solar sail Soviet Space Shuttle space systems space technology spacecraft specific STOL structures studies supercritical wing supersonic technical technology program tion Titan III transport turboprop users V/STOL variable cycle engine vehicle VTOL waiver wind tunnel wing
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Page 1503 - Made" — when used in relation to any invention or discovery means the conception or first actual reduction to practice of such invention in the course of or under the contract.
Page 1472 - The preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere...
Page 1502 - States and domestic municipal governments, unless the agency head determines that it would not be in the public interest to acquire the license for the States and domestic...
Page 1502 - Section l(a) and is either a necessary incentive to call forth private risk capital and expense to bring the invention to the point of practical application or that the Government's contribution to the invention is small compared to that of the contractor.
Page 1501 - The public interest in a dynamic and efficient economy requires that efforts be made to encourage the expeditious development and civilian use of these inventions. Both the need for incentives to draw forth private initiatives to this end, and the need to promote healthy competition in industry must be weighed in the disposition of patent rights under Government contracts.
Page 1502 - Government, on the commercial use that is being made or is intended to be made of inventions made under Government contracts.
Page 1503 - As used in this provision, the stated terms are defined as follows for the purposes hereof: (1) "Invention" or "invention or discovery" includes any art, machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety of plant, which is or may be patentable under the Patent Laws of the United States. (2) "Made...
Page 1501 - C. The use and practice of these inventions and discoveries should stimulate inventors, meet the needs of the government, recognize the equities of the contractor, and serve the public interest.
Page 1503 - To the point of practical application" means to manufacture in the case of a composition or product, to practice in the case of a process, or to operate in the case of a machine, and under such conditions as to establish that the invention is being worked and that its benefits are reasonably accessible to the public.
Page 1501 - ... is in a field of technology in which the contractor has acquired technical competence (demonstrated by factors such as know-how, experience, and patent position) directly related to an area in which the contractor has an established nongovernmental commercial position, the contractor shall normally acquire the principal or exclusive rights throughout the world in and to any resulting inventions, subject to the government acquiring at least an irrevocable non-exclusive royalty free license throughout...