Excerpt from Basic Research in the Mission Agencies: Agency Perspectives on the Conduct and Support of Basic Research Perhaps the broadest generalization that can be made is that agencies have difficulty making a sharp distinction between basic and applied re search. The great variation in reporting of re search by basic, applied, and other categories can lead to serious discrepancies in Government-wide data on research and development. Given this and other limitations stated below, it is still possible, based on the inputs from the mission agencies, to make some general observations on accomplish ments, trends, problems, and issues concerning basic research supported by the Federal Govern ment.l These are, in brief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.