# Office of Scientific Research and Development **Entity class:** Institution **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition The Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), established in 1941 under Vannevar Bush, directly funded civilian and university research for wartime missions. ## Chronological Proximity It followed the [[wiki/National Defense Research Committee|NDRC]] and funded the 1942 [[wiki/Radio Research Laboratory|Radio Research Laboratory]] while the electronic air war intensified. ## Relational Proximity [[wiki/Vannevar Bush|Vannevar Bush]] led OSRD and recruited [[wiki/Fred Terman|Fred Terman]] to direct electronic-countermeasure research at Harvard. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].