Congress attacks contractor, accountants

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Monetary and managerial difficulties are besetting the Department of Energy's (DOE) Superconducting Supercollider project. The oversight and investigations subcommittee of the US House Science, Space and Technology Committee learned from the General Accounting Office that delays in building the project's 54-mile elliptical tunnel and related structures may increase costs by $400 million. Moreover, conflict between DOE and its construction contractors, Parsons Brinckershoff-Morrison Knudsen, is further delaying the project.

Engineering services, Investigations, Contracts, Testimony, United States. Department of Energy, United States. Government Accountability Office, Superconducting Super Collider, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc.

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Grassroots consortia go back to the basics

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Biosym Technologies of San Diego, CA, formed four industrial research consortia that succeeded in marketing new products. Biosym, which produces molecular and chemical modelling software, persuaded over 100 industrial members to join the consortia, which focus on polymers, catalysts, potential energy functions and materials. Moreover, the consortia have the common purpose of enabling members to put limited research funds to the best possible use. Avoiding members' proprietary secrets was important to Biosym's success.

Computer programming services, Research, Management, Industrial research, Syndicates (Finance), Biosym Technologies Inc.

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US oceanography lab sinks under weight of politics

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The Navy announced that the Institute for Naval Oceanography (INO) in Bay St Louis, MS, will be closed on Sep 30, 1992. Management disputes, a shrinking budget, lack of planning and neglect by former US Sen John Stennis of Mississippi are the chief reasons for the INO's demise. The Navy Dept in 1986 located the INO in Mississippi rather than in Monterey, CA largely at the urging of Stennis, whose subsequent disregard for the project illustrates the danger of relying too much on pork-barrel funding.

Planning, Finance, Research institutes, Science and technology policy, Oceanographic research, United States. Navy, Stennis, John C.

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