ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an analysis of data obtained by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the NASA/ Department of Defense Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Mastering international technology transfer and information flow is more important than ever to the aerospace industry. Federal government sources point out that increasing international cooperation between US and foreign companies in air and space projects is a continuing trend. A series of questions was formulated to determine the role of collaborative writing in the professional lives of the engineers and scientists responding to the survey. The respondents were also polled for the number of technical information products that they had produced in the six months prior to the survey. The thirteen types of information products on which they were polled about production were the same as the types of information products on whose use as resources they were polled, and the products were divided into the same categories of informal and formal.
