They recognized that such programs were the technological seed-corn for the future, the means by which American security would be safeguarded and our interests protected down the road.
These include figuring out ways in which to maintain the Russian nuclear weapons program's scientific and physical infrastructure and how to give away seed-corn technology developed by the national labs at enormous expense taxpayer.
Would the search for short-term profits prompt a U.S. companies to sell the United States' technological "seed-corn, " and in so doing make it likely that this country would shortly become a net importer, instead of an exporter, of derivative products?
And if we use their biomass directly and not just the seed - all we use are the seed of the corn - we use their biomass directly to make energy and to run the plant that makes the energy, we can have biofuels that are immensely better, that can give us 80 or 90 percent reductions in greenhouse gases compared to gasoline.
The ultimate prize, awaiting federal approval, is a corn-seed additive that is more digestible to animals than traditional (prebiotech) corn and another that can better resist drought.
It goes without saying that resources are limited in our recession-ravaged economies ... but disinvesting in seed corn is obviously self-defeating.
The Clementine II, Kinetic-Kill Anti-Satellite and Military Space Plane programs are the technological seed corn for such crucial capabilities as space-based missile defenses, neutralizing enemy satellites and having prompt, reliable and inexpensive access to and use of space.
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The BOA's Olympic coaching programme, led by Rugby World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward, will receive "seed corn funding" from the deal.
Protecting the Technological Seed Corn: Fortunately, in the case of the F-117 and to an even greater degree with the aforementioned systems whose problems were more in the public domain, the secretary of Defense presiding at the time (and others in the executive branch) engaged directly with the Congress to muster and maintain the necessary support from Capitol Hill.
Innovations are remarkably similar in some of their basic features as described by economist-statistician Zvi Griliches many years ago in his study of the dispersion of new hybrid corn seed varieties.
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