Friday, January 9, 2004

1:30–3:00 a.m.

OFF-SITE SESSION
Armed Forces Interactions with American Science and Technology: From the Revolution to the Twenty-first Century

32. Government Support for Military Technological Innovation
National Museum of American History, Carmichael Auditorium
13th and Constitution N.W., on the National Mall

Chair: Sanders Marble, National Museum of American History
Papers:

Technological Innovation in the War of 1812
Jeff Seiken, Ohio State University

Dreadnoughts and Elections: America’s Response to Naval Revolution
Walter E. Pittman Jr., University of West Alabama

A New R&D Order: World War II and the Creation of Development Networks
Robert G. Ferguson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles in the U.S. Air Force: Operational and Cultural Perspectives, 1945–2003
James David Perry, Science Applications International Corporation

Comment: The Audience
Directions: Take Metro Red Line from Woodley Park Station to Metro Center (4 stops). Go to lower platform and take Blue or Orange Line (toward Addison Road or New Carrollton) one stop to Federal Triangle. Exit station. At top of escalator, turn 180 degrees and walk to 12th Street. Turn right on 12th and walk half a block to Constitution. You will see the National Museum of American History across the street to your right. Cross Constitution, turn right, and walk one-half block to entrance. Carmichael Auditorium is immediately to your left after you pass through visitor screening. The guard can direct you.