Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research -- Appendixes -- APPENDIX A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- APPENDIX B Guest Speaker Presentations to the Committee -- APPENDIX C DOD Basic Research Organizations and Universities: Committee Site Visits and/or Interviews -- APPENDIX D Definitions of Basic, Applied, and Fundamental Research -- APPENDIX E Universities That Received Department of Defense 6.1 and 6.2 Funding in Fiscal Year 2002.