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Dare: June 7, 1965

Robert M. Rosenzweig
Associate Dean of Graduate Division

Computer Science Department
NASA proposal for McCarthy and Lederberg

Attached is a copy of the proposal entitled "A Proposal for
the Study of Computer Control of External Devices and an Automated
Biological Laboratory" for submission to NASA. Professors McCarthy
and Lederberg will be the principal investigators, and the attached
copy has McCarthy's and Forsythe's signatures. Also enclosed are 15
additional unsigned copies. You should at the same time be receiving
a& copy which has been signed by Professor Lederberg and Acting Dean
Raffel from the Medical School.

This present proposal to NASA is complementary to Professor
McCarthy's ARPA proposal, which was submitted March 1, 1965. As explained
in the proposal, the purpose of the request to NASA is to request funds to
expand the computer configuration and to share operating costs that are
common to both ARPA and NASA interests, A third part of the request is for
funds for expanding present research being performed in the Instrumentation
Research Laboratory.

We have had word from the ARPA cognizant technical officer that
the March 1 proposal will be funded to the extend of 1.5 million dollars;
but Stanford's Research Contracts Office has not yet received the amendment
to Professor McCarthy's ARPA contract, SD-183,

We are submitting this proposal to NASA as a request for a grant,
but we used the Department of Defence formula for indirect costs. I do not
know whether your office prefers grants or contracts from NASA; I understand
they may write either. Since the ARPA portion is funded as a contract, there
may be fewer administrative problems if NASA were to fund their research in
the same manner. Another reason for using the DOD indirect costs forma is
the present uncertain status of allowable indirect costs of grant support.

This present proposal is to be submitted to Mr. T.L.K. Small,
Office of Grants and Research Contracts of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, Washington 25, D. C.

Robert J. Langle

RJL: sws
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w. encl., R. Bacchetti
D. Heebink

wo. encl. G. Forsythe
J. McCarthy _~
J. Lederberg

1965

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