This second edition of an annual summary combines information about the research conducted under contract to the Manpower Administration and the experimental and demonstration programs under the direction of the Office of Research and Development. The merger of the research projects and development programs is now well established and is emphasized by their complete intermixing in this accounting, which was not the case in the 1972 reporting. Since delivery of manpower services appears to be managed increasingly on a decentralized basis, the face to face linkage needed for use of this material is lacking. For this reason the arrangement of the abstracts is made here by subject matter and includes; (1) Sources of Reports on Research and Development Projects, (2) Government Manpower Programs, (3) Other Manpower Development Programs, (4) Target Groups of Manpower Programs, (5) The Labor Market, (6) Manpower Policy and Program Administration, (7) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grants, and (8) Institutional Manpower Research Grants. Indexes containing information on grants and contracts as well as appendixes containing proposal guidelines and legislation governing their formation and content supplement the text. (SN)