Scientific and Technical Information Needs of Users or Potential users of the DSA-Administered, DoD Information Analysis Centers.

摘要

Two separate but related survey efforts were conducted. The first effort was aimed at determining the level of satisfaction of DOD Research and Development activities with the DSA-administered DoD information Analysis Centers (IACs). The second survey effort attempted to identify specific, job-related scientific and technical information needs of Defense scientists and engineers which could be incorporated into the DSA-administered DoD IACS Five-Year plan as a set of long-range, technical objectives for the IACs to achieve. Principal findings from this effort included the following: (1) Three of every four Defense scientists and engineers experience problems in locating, obtaining, and using scientific and technical information; (2) The most important products or services that can be produced or offered by the IACs are handbooks and databooks; (3) DoD scientists and engineers engaged in R and D activities expressed a need for scientific and technical information in over thirty-five different areas including various lasers and masers, optical materials and properties, electron beam welding, eddy current techniques to measure residual stress in steel, etc.