Annual Report to the Congress: January 1 to September 30, 1983 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress: January 1 to September 30, 1983

This report offers statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board, TAAC Chairman, and the Director of OTA. It also discusses OTAs work in progress, organization and operations.
Date: March 1984
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1979 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress for 1979

This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date: March 1980
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1985 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1985

This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date: March 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions (open access)

Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions

In this report, OTA places testing in its historical and policy context, examines the reasons for testing and the ways it is done, and identifies particular ways Federal policy affects the picture, The report also explores new approaches to testing that derive from modem technology and cognitive research.
Date: February 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1978 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress for 1978

This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses many changes that have taken place at OTA during 1978: new quarters, new management, new organizational structure, a new method of establishing project priorities, a new ONE-PAGER digest of each report issued, greater outreach.
Date: March 1979
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1976 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1976

This report covers the activities of the Office of Technology Assessment during calendar year 1975.
Date: March 1973
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Technology Case Study Twenty-six: Assistive Devices for Severe Speech Impairments (open access)

Health Technology Case Study Twenty-six: Assistive Devices for Severe Speech Impairments

A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that is "about the revolution in communication aids that has since changed the outlook for this population [nonspeaking population], its accomplishments to date, its promise for the future, and its problems" (p. 3).
Date: December 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1994 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1994

This report includes statements form OTA Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Director, as well as TAAC Chairman. The report also discusses industry, commerce, and international security division, as well as health, life sciences and the environment division.
Date: March 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Office of Technology Assessment FY1994 Annual Report to Congress, March 1995 (open access)

Office of Technology Assessment FY1994 Annual Report to Congress, March 1995

The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) is a nonpartisan congressional support agency of the United States congress. OTA is charged with advising the Congress on a wide range of critical issues involving science and technology. This report to Congress is required under Sec. 11 of the Technology Assessment Act of 1972, Public Law 92-484 (see p. 55). It describes the activities of the Office in Fiscal Yaer 1994 within the context of the legislative agenda of the 103rd congress and the events in the United States and the world during 1994.
Date: March 1995
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1975 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1975

This report covers the activities of the Office of Technology Assessment during the year since March 15, 1974, the date of the preceding annual report, through March 15, 1975.
Date: March 1975
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1984 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1984

This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date: March 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1993 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1993

This report includes statements form OTA Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Director, as well as TAAC Chairman. The report also discusses industry, commerce, and international security division, as well as health, life sciences and the environment division.
Date: March 1994
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1977 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress for 1977

This report describes these projects in detail: the spread of nuclear materials and weapons-making capability, cancer-testing technology and saccharin, the implications of the Carter Administration’s National Energy Plan, the trade-offs between individual rights and massive computerization of the Nation’s tax information system, ways to spur research on increasing the supply of food, the prospects of solar technology.
Date: March 1978
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1986 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1986

Annual report detailing the progress and budget of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1977 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1977

This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date: March 1977
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1987 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1987

Annual report detailing the progress and budget of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: March 1988
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, April 1 - June 30, 1986 (open access)

Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, April 1 - June 30, 1986

Quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: 1986
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nutrition Research Alternatives (open access)

Nutrition Research Alternatives

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that analyzes "nutrition research alternatives-alternative goals and priorities, alternative definitions and funding, and alternative research personnel requirements" (p. iii).
Date: September 1978
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparing for an Uncertain Climate: Summary (open access)

Preparing for an Uncertain Climate: Summary

This is the final report on climate change. OTA examines how the Nation can best prepare for an uncertain future climate.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1980 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress for 1980

This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date: March 1981
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Information Systems (open access)

Food Information Systems

Transcriptions of statements made over the course of four days regarding the food information systems in the United States.
Date: February 1976
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology: Background Paper 2: Case Studies of Medical Technologies: Case Study 9: The Artificial Heart: Cost, Risks, and Benefits (open access)

The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology: Background Paper 2: Case Studies of Medical Technologies: Case Study 9: The Artificial Heart: Cost, Risks, and Benefits

A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that assesses the artificial heart program and "provides an opportunity to address policy questions concerning the distribution of research funds for treating heart disease, the equitable distribution of medical technology, and the potential costs to society before this life-saving technology is available for therapeutic use" (p. 3).
Date: May 1982
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy (open access)

Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy

This report focuses on the training given to employed workers both from the standpoint of the competitiveness of U.S. industry and from the standpoint of the individual worker who may need training to advance. Most workers who get training get it from their employer, and much of the report looks at the employer provided training system. The message of this report is that the debate about national training policies needs to be broadened to encompass not only training programs for the economically disadvantaged, the displaced worker, or people with special needs, but also those who stand on the front line of American productivity-employed workers at all levels.
Date: September 1990
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The international dimension: new technologies and intellectual property rights (open access)

The international dimension: new technologies and intellectual property rights

This report considers international copyright as an instrument of adjustment of rights and interests domestically and among nations.
Date: October 1984
Creator: Homet, Roland S., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library