National Academy of Sciences 2002-2003 Defense Department materials research committee

The committee on which Tom served and to which he contributed the appendix that is the source of the handout used throughout the lecture. Used to frame the entire materials-cost discussion that follows.

There's a handout that is the summary of this course. I was on a committee once in the early 2000s — it's a 2002 or 2003 copyright. This is a National Research Council report of the National Academies, Materials Research Needs for the Defense Department in the 21st Century. There were about 40 of us on this committee, and people were talking about all these fancy new materials and how they were going to do all these wonderful things.