Scientific Manpower

One of the summer’s more important but almost unnoticed events occurred on September 6th, when Manpower Policy No. 8 was issued by Acting Secretary John R. Steelman of the Office of Defense Mobilization to define the government’s position regarding the training and use of scientific and engineering manpower. This over‐all policy, recommended by the interagency Manpower Policy Committee, its Committee on Specialized Personnel, and the national Labor‐Management Manpower Policy Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization, assigned to government agencies the responsibility for making specific contributions to the program for the utilization and training of scientists and engineers. While the policy recognized that many of its recommended activities were already under way in individual industrial firms, educational institutions, professional organizations, and in government, it is also clear that much remains to be done before solutions can be found for the underlying problems which have made such a policy statement necessary.

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