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B-114888 1 (1973-11-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkrx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ac r -u- -, L by tke co,' - UNITED STATES GENERAL ACC6U TING'OFFre6E 0o S WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 /AM.A PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEMS RELEASED ACQUISITION DIVISION B-114888 Nov 1973 The Honorable Patsy T. Mink House of Representatives Dear Mrs. Mink: ,/-, ,.A's/-x..r- Your July 25, 1973, letter requested us to obtain information on a cQ i between the Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and the University of Kansas for a ! study of the Aspects of Rapid Acculturation in the Pacific. On June 11, 1968, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (OSR), the agent assigned by ARPA to award and monitor the contract, awarded contract F44620-68-C-0081 to the university. The contract was to study the effects of pxpiwle ha,. p roedo min~utly_ ,pr e industria Icu.. t_ r e. The study was conducted in American Samoa, Yap, Palau, Saipan, Ponape, Truk, and Nome and Kotzebue, Alaska. ARPA totally funded the contract for $600,000. The contract resulted from a proposal received from the University of Kansas under the Department of Defense's (DOD's) discontinued THEMIS Program. The THEMIS Program's goal was to encourage the development of centers capable of erfo rmi W.g P&topcs of high relevance to DOD at universities which had previously receivediaTveiy lit- tle DOD research and development funds. When ARPA withdrew from the THEMIS Program in e spring of 1969, the Air Force's OSR assumed full responsibility for completing the study. Field studies have been completed and a series of technical reports has been published on the subject of acculturation in the Pacific Islands and in comparable areas. The university has just submitted to OSR a final report on the contract. This report and 21 available ~E& :-? OS859t

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