Managing: From Invention to Hardware

A definition of the five categories of technical effort in the Air Force; an establishment of a new subcategorization of basic research (unbounded and guided); and a discussion in detail of the following, with cross-references to like problems in industrial concerns: 1) basic research, 2) exploratory development, 3) advanced development, 4) the role of the manager, 5) the manager's desirable and undesirable traits, 6) the role of the scientist and engineer, 7) the organization, and 8) future trends.