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Toward Better Utilization of Scientific and Engineering Talent: a Program for Action
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SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS: A NATIONAL ASSET
Scientists and engineers, through their discoveries and innovations, expand the range of choices open to a nation and its people. In the United States, we look to our scientists and engineers to help make the nation strong, to advance the prevention and cure of disease, to deepen our understanding of man and nature, to educate and train tomorrow's scientists and engineers, and in many other ways to help us attain our individual and national goals. In the years ahead, the nation's needs for scientists and engineers unquestionably will increase, and probably at a faster rate than they have in the past. Although the supply of this manpower also will in crease, it may not keep pace with all the possible needs to which domestic and international influences will give rise. Difficult choices will have to be made among the many alternatives to which our limited supply of skilled manpower might devote its efforts. The total number of its citizens that a nation can count as scientists and engineers is only a crude index of its capability to meet its needs in science and engineering. Truer measures are the number of able scientists and engineers whose services are effectively used and the quality and relevance of their training.
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