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美国政府已开始拨出经费开发它所认为的“一般性“和“竞争前”的技术。联邦政府商务部新建立的“先进技术计划”(ATP)已选定11项新的研究开发项目为拨款对象,这些项目在第一年拨款中总共将获得9百万美元的资金。商务部长罗伯特·A·莫斯巴赫称这些项目“有可能在几个关键的工业部门中产生出全新的产品和工艺来。”汤姆森—拉莫—伍尔德里奇公司负责科学技术事务的副总裁、最近曾参与审查ATP计划的一个私人咨询委员会的主席阿登·L·伯蒙特告诉本刊说,他认为该计划对项日的选择是非常令人满意的。他指出,由于选择的重点放在与信息和材料科学有关的技术上,因此有助于把人们的注意力吸引到那些对保持美国的国际竞争力起着重要作用的领域上来。
The U.S. government has started to allocate funds to develop what it believes are “general” and “pre-competition” technologies. The newly established Advanced Technology Initiative (ATP) of the Federal Department of Commerce has selected 11 new R & D projects as funding targets for a total of $ 9 million in the first year appropriations. Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbach called the projects “potentially generating entirely new products and processes in several key industrial sectors.” Thomson-Ramo-Woolrich Corporation Vice President, Science and Technology Arden L. Beaumont, president and chairman of a private advisory board that recently participated in the review of the ATP program, told the magazine that he considers the plan's choice of the day to be “very satisfactory.” He pointed out that since the choice of focus was on technologies related to information and materials science, it helped to draw attention to those areas that played an important role in maintaining the international competitiveness of the United States.