Office of Technology Assessment

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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By 1979, though, another study by a now-defunct Office of Technology Assessment noted that "there is little evidence to support or to negate the contention that there is a direct relationship between open shelf-dating and the actual freshness of food."

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In the United States, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment played this role for more than 20 years, producing more than 750 nonpartisan reports on topics such as medical innovations and space tech.

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After a brief tenure as a deputy assistant secretary at the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare and a longer tenure as assistant director of the Office of Technology Assessment, she was appointed to run Berkeley’s School of Public Health in 1981.

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Office of Technology Assessment and served on panels of the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering.

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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.

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