re u s government and technolgy investment in article apr aio jsc nasa gov kjenks gothamcity jsc nasa gov writes it s interesting to note that some of our best tools for cost control available in industry today were derived from government projects gantt charts cp m and most of the modern scheduling software comes from dod projects and their contractors the construction industry of course how many government projects after using pert gant c p m s process flow diagrams level software projects actually come in on schedule and under cost i know the gao determined that of all nasa projects miss their budgets due to failing to adequately measure engineering developement costs me i am allin favor of government r d i thought bell labs was one of the best to do research i don t think the government should pour money into any one sector but should engage in projects which naturally push the state of the art things like high tech construction projects apollo was worth it for the doing running hte national labs the ssc is grossly overweight but is a reasonable project at a lower cost unfortunately support for solo investigators is direly neglected maybe what they should do is throw out much of the process and just tell new ph ds you get a time grant of if you produce you can qualify for other grants if you don t you never get in again this way young people get a shot at reserach and older stale scientists don t dominate the process pat
