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NASA'S ROLES AND CONCERNS
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... They are able to convert these designs quickly and efficiently into top-quality, highly reliable products, and to back up these sales with first-rate product support. Clearly, one area of management technology that we still, I think, lead in in the United States is the management of large, complex systems.
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... It has also led to concerns regarding such questions as technology transfer from the United States to many of our foreign commercial competitors. Let me make a few remarks regarding the civil-military aeronautical requirements.
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... In other areas, strong ties are maintained with emerging nations, including former colonies, and some of these Third World countries may in fact represent significant future markets. The technology edge that we speak of is meaningful, I believe, only when that technology is applied to a product- If obstacles to technological application or innovation in the United States are real and cannot be overcome, then technology cannot be used effectively by the U.S.
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... Should we include the applied technology programs? How far should a NASA program go toward risk reduction and meeting the needs of the various industries, both general aviation and commercial and military aviation in the United States?
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... Given that there is going to be a greater and probably more complex interrelationship between the institutions in the United States and those that exist in the other advancing and advanced nations, what should NASA's role be at that interface?
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