The U.S. government technical report is a primary means by which the results of federally funded research and development (RD) are transferred to the U.S. aerospace industry. However, little is known about this information product in terms of its actual use, importance, and value in the transfer of federally funded RD. Little is also known about the intermediary-based system that is used to transfer the results of federally funded RD to the U.S. aerospace industry. To help establish a body of knowledge, the U.S. government technical report is being investigated as part of the NASA/DoD Aerospace Knowledge Division Research Project. In this report, we summarize the literature on technical reports, present a model that depicts the transfer of federally funded aerospace RD via the U.S. government technical report, and present the results of research that investigated aerospace knowledge diffusion vis-a-vis the technical communication practices of U.S. aerospace engineers and scientists who are members of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
NASA/DoD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Report Number 33. The Technical Communications Practices of U.S. Aerospace Engineers and Scientists: Results of the Phase 1 AIAA Mail Survey
1995
52 pages
Report
No indication
English
Space Technology , Aeronautics & Aerodynamics , Research Program Administration & Technology Transfer , Information transfer , Research management , Aerospace industry , Aeronautics , Aerospace systems , Surveys , Communication and radio systems , Engineers , Astronautics , Sti(Scientific and technical information)