AGARD

For the contemporary writer, see John Agard.
Theodore von Kármán, left, is joined by Air Force and NASA officials while inspecting two of the models used in the high velocity, high altitude wind tunnels at Arnold Air Force Base. The missiles are AGARD-B and Atlas Series B. (1959)

The Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD)[1] was an agency of NATO that existed from 1952 to 1996.

AGARD was founded as an Agency of the NATO Military Committee. It was set up in May 1952 with headquarters in Neuilly sur Seine, France.

In a mission statement in the 1982 History it published, the purpose involved "bringing together the leading personalities of the NATO nations in the fields of science and technology relating to aerospace".[2]: iv  The Advisory Group was organized by panels:

Aerospace medical, avionics, electromagnetic wave propagation, flight mechanics, fluid dynamics, guidance and control, propulsion and energetics, structures and materials, and technical information.[2]: 95–194 

In 1958 Theodore von Kármán hired Moe Berg to accompany him to the AGARD conference in Paris. "AGARD's aim was to encourage European countries to develop weapons technology on their own instead of relying on the U.S. defense industry to do it for them."[3]

  1. ^ Jan van der Bliek Editor AGARD The History 1952-1997: RTO, 1999, ISBN 92-836-1079-2.
  2. ^ a b Frank Wattendorf & Rolland A. Willaume editors (1982) The AGARD History 1952 — 1981, AGARD Publishing
  3. ^ Dawidoff, Nicholas (1994). The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage Books. p. 258. ISBN 0-679-76289-2.