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Defense Research and Development: Affiliations of Fiscal Year 1993 Trustees for Federally Funded Centers

NSIAD-95-135 Published: Jul 26, 1995. Publicly Released: Aug 28, 1995.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the boards of trustees whose served in fiscal year (FY) 1993 at the Department of Defense's (DOD) federally funded research and development centers (FFRDC), focusing on: (1) how trustees are elected to each board; (2) FFRDC trustees and officers who left in FY 1993 to take executive positions in the federal government; (3) trustees' representation on the Defense Science Board (DSB); (4) retired command-level officers on FFRDC boards; (5) trustees sitting on more than one FFRDC board and affiliated with non-DOD FFRDCs; and (6) the FY 1993 and prior affiliations by FFRDC and by individual trustees and the trustees having the most individual affiliations with FFRDCs (universities, private sector firms, the federal government, and the military).

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