FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1978 NO. 131/78

CHIEF DEFENCE SCIENTIST FOR OVERSEAS

The Chief Defence Scientist in the Department

of Defence,  Professor P.T. Fink, left Australia today

to attend a meeting of the Non-Atomic Military Research

and Development Committee (NAMRAD) in the United Kingdom.

The Committee,  consisting of the Chief Defence

Scientists of the United Kingdom, United States, Canada,

Australia and New Zealand, is the governing body of the

five-nation Defence technical co-operation program. This

program ensures that defence scientists keep abreast of

each other’s scientific advances, and arranges specific

co-operative projects in defence research.

While overseas Professor Fink also will visit France

and the United States where he will confer with senior defence

officials. I

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He will return to Australia on October 9.

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