The annual progress report gives the FY 79 personnel and funding strength of the laboratory. It outlines the eight scientific programs being pursued by the laboratory. Those programs are: acoustics; biomedical aspects of vibration; visual physiology and psychophysics; sustained aviation operations, crew workload, and stress; impact physiology in support of crashworthiness and personal armor development; health hazard assessment; medical aspect of crew selection; and thermal analysis. The DD 1498s under which this work was authorized are in Appendix A. The FY 79 publications and presentations are in Appendix B. (Author).