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Domenici Announces Agreement on Tech Transfer Législation Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico) praised an agreement reached on technology transfer législation that will provide a vital link among industry, universiries, and U.S. national laboratories. The National Competitiveness Technology Transfer Act of 1989 was included as an amendment to the Department of Défense Authorization Bill, approved by the House and Senate on November3,1989. The bill represents Domenici's third attempt at gaining passage. Domenici lauded Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) and Représentative Maralyn Uoyd (D-Tennessee) for their efforts in achieving the bill's passage. Domenici explained that the législation will generate tech transfer at the Department of Energy laboratories by changing the way technology is managed within departments. Qianges prompted by the law will enable technologies to be managed more efficiently by the labs that created
them by encouraging coopérative research with outside parties, especially industry. In addition it will permit industry to hâve commercial protections for technologies, which should serve as an incentive for in-
dustry to embrace new initiatives. Spedfically, the bill's tech transfer provisions will create the following initiatives: • Allow the labs to enter into coopérative research and development agreements;
APS Président Voices Concerns About Fédéral Funding for Physics Concerned about what he terms the "current funding crisis in the National Science Foundation," American Physical Society Président James A. Krumhansl has written to Président Bush and called upon the Fellows of the American Physical Society to "défend the value of scientific research and éducation." to Président Bush, written on behalf of the APS goveming Krumhansrs letterto council, appeals for the President's personal attention to the effort to restore funds eut from the National Science rbundation Foundation in the FY 90 budget, and to giving NSF the "highest priority" in the FY 91 budget request. In another letter to APS Fellows, Krumhansl asks them to share the message with colleagues and policymakers, to "think about the ramifications of thèse developments on your institution, your field, the éducation and support of students, and your community and diséuss thèse matters with your représentatives, local and national."
Tfee Mbéeti 3S-R10 is an automated " Backscattering System which combines the versatility of the 1 MV tandem Bslletron® manufacturée! by National Electrostatics with the fùlly automated RBS end station manufactured by Charles Evans and Associates. The computer controlled, energy variable Pelletron accelerator provides hélium beams to 3.3 MeV (and protons to 2.2 MeV). The Charles Evans' end station is complète with analysis software and full computer control. With simultaneous data collection and analysis, 100 samples or 100 positions on a single sample can be analyzed without operator intervention. The 3S-R10 is equipped for reliable, unattended opérations.
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