Abstract
One of the hats that Dr. H. Guyford Stever will be wearing if he is confirmed by the Senate as the President's science adviser is that of the chairman of the new Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (FCCSET). It will be a familiar hat, because Stever had served since 1973 as chairman of the Federal Council for Science & Technology—which became FCCSET in May this year. Stever has some definite ideas on how insight gained by running FCST can be applied to the running of FCCSET, as evidenced by his testimony at recent House hearings on the coordination of R&D programs in the federal government. FCST was an interagency mechanism created in 1959 to provide a forum for the exchange of information among R&D officials in specific program areas. Its performance was less than brilliant, according to most of the witnesses—which included two of the council's past executive secretaries—at the hearings ...
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