Laboratory of the Department of Energy. These two organizations undertook this activity about a year ago to explore the potential for such collaboration in an R&D area that would be consistent with their respective missions, provide a high degree of leverage through their cooperation, and would result in technology that would be of major significance to the United States. The advent of HTSC with its potential for enabling or providing large benefits for space and aeronautical applications, and the designation of ANL by the president as the Superconductivity Research Center for Applications provided the unique opportunity for the two laboratories to engage in a significant collaborative R&D research program. Teams were formed each consisting of NASA and DOE personnel to identify areas with potential high payoff from the HTSC technology. Both aeronautical and space applications addressed the specific areas listed previously. The results of this collaboration were unprecedented and further collaboration was initiated. The report of the initial effort is reported in Ref. [13], Future Efforts in HTSC at the Lewis Research Center Due to the success of the initial Lewis-Argonne program, efforts were initiated to formalize and continue this relationship. Thus, on 2 November 1988, an agreement was signed between the Lewis Research Center and the Argonne National Laboratories [14]. This is a space act agreement which covers a program of superconductivity technology, research and development. One of the prime areas covered by this agreement is that of power system technology of HSTC for future NASA missions.
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