Truman pocket-vetoed the Magnuson Bill, which would have created this organization, on the ground that the (*) panel of experts it empowered was unaccountable, as proposed by the report which became the leading impetus for this organization
The initial proposal for this organization grew out of Senator Harley Kilgore's concern that monopolies and prestigious universities were withholding wartime innovations, and his proposal included government ownership of intellectual property and public input on its funding priorities. Between 1985 and 1995, this organization ran a network of five university computing centers and NCAR ("N-car") and which developed into the commercial internet. Truman pocket-vetoed the Magnuson Bill, which would have created this organization, on the ground that the (*) panel of experts it empowered was unaccountable, as proposed by the report which became the leading impetus for this organization, The Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush. The Coburn Amendment ordered this organization to require that grants for political science serve US national security or economic interests. For 10 points, name this government agency that funds most basic science and social science research.
The initial proposal for this organization grew out of Senator Harley Kilgore's concern that monopolies and prestigious universities were withholding wartime innovations, and his proposal included government ownership of intellectual property and public input on its funding priorities.
National Science Foundation [or NSF]