ABSTRACT
The Presidential offices for science and technology had been reestablished and strengthened under the Ford Administration, which lobbied for the passage of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization and Priorities Act of 1976. Presidential Science and Technology Adviser H. Guyford Stever made organizational and substantive contributions to the effectiveness of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The increasingly complex, technological and interrelated nature of their society, as well as of the problems confronting it, has resulted in an ever-growing emphasis on science and technology as instruments for problem analysis and resolution. This is reflected by the proliferating scientific advisory staffs at the local, state, national, and international levels. The vertical approach to coordination means that the power and prestige of the President is directly or indirectly involved to secure the desired results. Centralized coordination, both horizontal and vertical, tends to be resisted by the Federal agencies.
