Many military laboratories are today being subjected to increasingly severe requirements as this country seeks to emphasize its scientific effort. The immediate problems of defense, the missile program, and the now intense interest in the race for outer space, all call for trying to buy ten years time in two. The relatively calm environment of many military research laboratories is gradually being replaced by crash requirements, deadlines, and “budget hassles”. In such a situation research having generalized long‐term objectives always seems to yield to the exigencies of the immediate.