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AUG 01, 1958

The following account of the new “Institute for Exploratory Research” which has been established within the organizational framework of the US Army Signal Corps’ Research and Development Laboratory at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., is coauthored by the Laboratory’s director of research (Dr. Zahl) and the director of the newly created Institute (Dr. Reilley).

DOI: 10.1063/1.3062684

Harold A. Zahl

Edward M. Reilley

Many military laboratories are today being subjected to increasingly severe requirements as this country seeks to emphasize its scientific effort. The immediate problems of defense, the missile program, and the now intense interest in the race for outer space, all call for trying to buy ten years time in two. The relatively calm environment of many military research laboratories is gradually being replaced by crash requirements, deadlines, and “budget hassles”. In such a situation research having generalized long‐term objectives always seems to yield to the exigencies of the immediate.

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Harold A. Zahl. US Army Signal Corps' Research and Development Laboratory, Ft. Monmouth, N.J..

Edward M. Reilley. Institute for Exploratory Research, US Army Signal Corps, Research and Development Laboratory, Ft. Monmouth, N.J..

© 1958. American Institute of Physics

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Volume 11, Number 8

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