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Office of Technology Assessment

American  

noun

U.S. Government.
  1. a bipartisan agency, created in 1972, that informs and advises Congress about scientific and technical developments bearing on national policy. OTA


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Office of Technology Assessment advised the body on Medicare coverage decisions, including those for pneumococcal vaccination, and screening for breast cancer, cervical cancer and colorectal cancer.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2021

In 1995, lawmakers effectively dismantled another technical advisory entity, the Office of Technology Assessment, by refusing to fund it.

From Nature • Dec. 7, 2016

While we, like Toffler, hope to reinvigorate intimate democratic engagement, we focus on two-way conversations with experts, creating a participatory technology assessment that the Office of Technology Assessment never managed.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2016

Balancing science and public policy for much of his career, he later became director of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment before joining the Clinton administration in 1993.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2015

Congress's Office of Technology Assessment had all the virtues sometimes claimed for science fiction.

From Time Magazine Archive

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