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Andrew Aines (1913-1996) was a US science and technical information policy advocate.
Aines worked as Assistant manager, George James Co. 1938-41, joined the Army in 1942, and advanced through grades to Colonel.
In 1963, he was assigned to Lieutenant General Ely, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, ODDR & E, who also served as Chairman, Committee for Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) of the Federal Council for Science and Technology (FCST). Aines served as the Executive Secretary. Several months later, COSATI was transferred from the Department of Defense to the Office of Science and Technology (OST) of the White House. Aines continued as the Executive Secretary, later Chairman, of COSATI, but in a civilian capacity.
In 1971, COSATI be moved to the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and was a Program Officer. Aines retained his important role in the NSF information program until 1978, when he transferred to the Department of Defense as Director, DoD Scientific and Technical Information. In 1980, he became Director of Technical Information, Department of Energy for five years, retiring from the Federal Service in 1985. After COSATI ended in 1973, Aines organized the Federal Information Manager’s Group to keep the members fully informed. He retired from the Federal Service in 1985.
Aines was also Scholar in residence at the National Library of Medicine and an early member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS).