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Title
James C. Elms
Full Description
On October 1, 1966, James C. Elms was appointed Director of the
NASA Electronics Resource Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Elms served as director until the closing of the ERC on June 30,
1970.
Prior to his appointment as ERC Director, James Elms served as
Deputy Director of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston,
Texas and then as Deputy Associate Administrator for them Manned
Spaceflight Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
The ERC opened in September 1964, taking over the administration
of contracts, grants, and other NASA business in New England from
the antecedent North Eastern Operations Office (created in July
1962), and closed in June 1970. It served to develop the space
agencys in-house expertise in electronics during the Apollo era.
A second key function was to serve as a graduate and post-
graduate training center within the framework of a regional
government-industry-university alliance.
Research at the ERC was conducted in ten different laboratories:
space guidance, systems, computers, instrumentation research,
space optics, power conditioning and distribution, microwave
radiation, electronics components, qualifications and standards,
and control and information systems. Researchers investigated
such areas as microwave and laser communications; the
miniaturization and radiation resistance of electronic
components; guidance and control systems; photovoltaic energy
conversion; information display devices; instrumentation; and
computers and data processing.
Although the only NASA Center ever closed, the ERC actually grew
while NASA eliminated major programs and cut staff in other
areas. Between 1967 and 1970, NASA cut permanent civil service
workers at all Centers with one exception, the ERC, whose
personnel grew annually until its closure in June 1970.
Keywords
James Elms Electronics Research Center ERC Manned Spacecraft Center
Subject Category
NASA-Center-Directors, Historical-ERC,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
ERC
- Center Number:
jameselms
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000220
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Publication Information
Caption provided by Dr. Andrew Butrica.
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