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Science                and Technology: The Making of the Air Force Research LaboratoryRobert W. Duffner
2000, 328 pages                ISBN 1-58566-085-X                $27.00

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Robert W. Duffner�s *Science and Technology: The Making                of the Air Force Research Laboratory* addresses the far-reaching implications                of science and technology by recounting the events that led to the creation of a                single Air Force laboratory. This engaging story of how the Air Force moved from                13 separate labs to one consolidated lab reflects that service�s determination                to reinvigorate its science and technology infrastructure and thereby strengthen                the nation�s defense for the twenty-first century. Part one considers why the                Air Force decided to consolidate its far-flung science and technology enterprise                into one lab, while part two relates how the service implemented the new lab.                Dr. Duffner offers a unique perspective on a watershed event in the life of the                United States Air Force.

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**Reviews and reader comments:**"Air                Force laboratories were under a lot of pressure in 1996.                 For more than a decade, under three administrations, the Air Force and                DOD consistently tried to consolidate, rationalize and shrink the number of                labs, people, and associated expenses ... What was the bottom line then?                 Did this consolidation save any money? Was the workforce any smaller?                 How many layers of management disappeared?                 Unfortunately the story ends in 1997, with the beginning of the single                lab, so the book contains nothing on how well the consolidation worked and what                savings may have taken place ... This is unquestionably the work of an official                historian.                 It lacks only the volumes of photocopied supporting documents, but                otherwise it is ready for storage in the great government archive.                 The tale is a house history of a noncontroversial series of events.                 Nonetheless, this well-written history demonstrates what a ponderous,                almost tedious, process of change the military has developed in the half century                since the Pentagon was built, under budget in only eight months." (Full Review, reviewed in *Air Power                History*, Winter 2002, by John H. Barnhill, PhD, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma)
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