Abstract The joint Department of Defense (DoD)/Department of Energy (DOE) Munitions Technology Development Program is a cooperative, jointly funded effort of research and development to improve nonnuclear munitions technology across all service mission areas. This program is enabled under a Memorandum of Understanding, approved in 1985 between the DoD and the DOE, that tasks the nuclear weapons laboratories of the DOE to solve problems in conventional defense. The selection of the technical areas to be investigated is based on their importance to the military services, the needs that are common to the conventional and nuclear weapons programs, the expertise of the performing organization, and the perceived benefit to the overall national defense efforts. The research benefits both DoD and DOE programs; therefore, funding, planning, and monitoring are joint activities. Technology Coordination Groups (TCGs), organized by topical areas, serve as technology liaisons between the DoD and DOE for the exchange of information. The members of the TCGs are technical experts who meet semiannually in an informal workshop format to coordinate multiagency requirements, establish project plans, monitor technical activity, and develop classification guidance. A technical advisory committee of senior DoD and DOE managers administers the program and provides guidance on policy and strategy.
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The abstracts in this volume were collected from the technical progress report for fiscal year 1993. The annual report is organized by major technology areas.
Telephone and fax numbers for the principal contacts are provided with each abstract. This is a combined report based on the notes of members of a four-person US team of specialists on energy-related RandD who visited the USSR in October 1979 under the auspices of the US-USSR Science Policy Working Group. The purpose of the visit was to study the organization, management, and development in Soviet energy RandD institutions.
The team had discussions at the Czerzhinskiy All-Union Research Institute for Heat Engineering, the Krzhizhanovskiy Institute of Power Engineering, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Electrical Machine-Building, the Scientific Research Institute of Direct Current, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, and the Leningrad Electro-Technical Production Association (Eelektrosila). For years the United States, Britain, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan have been conducting extensive fast breeder reactor research and development programs. Except for the Soviet Union, these countries lack the energy resources--coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium--that the U.S. Possesses and have more urgent needs and shorter time frames for developing commercial fast breeder reactors than does the U.S. This report deals with the status of the foreign LMFBR programs and the benefits from and impediments to exchanging foreign LMFBR technology. It is concluded that although the Energy Research and Development Administration's efforts to develop areas of exchange are worthwhile and should be continued, it is unrealistic to expect that the U.S. Program could be greatly accelerated or that large amounts of money could be saved through quid pro quo exchanges with other nations.