A MESSAGE FROM REAR ADMIRAL F. R. FURTH

Chief of Naval Research

With this issue the Office of Naval Research launches the NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS QUARTERLY. The decision to initiate this journal has resulted from the need to provide an outlet for the papers on logistics which now appear in widely scattered journals or inaccessible reports. Due to the lack of an appropriate journal in this rapidly growing field, important work is missed by individ- uals engaged in logistics, entailing unnecessary duplication and delay in progress. This QUARTERLY has therefore been established to publish art icles and other items of interest to logisticians, creating a medium through which the scientists can acquaint themselves with the problems of operational logistics, and through which the operating naval officers will be informed about the latest results and tech- niques devised by the scientists.

F. R. FURTH Rear Admiral, USN

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