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OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1983 (open access)

OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1983

Materials from an OTA Senior Management Retreat including memoranda, summaries, and discussion points for previous or upcoming studies and programs.
Date: December 4, 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1986 (open access)

OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1986

Materials from an OTA Senior Management Retreat including memoranda, summaries, and discussion points for previous or upcoming studies and programs. The retreat was held from November 12-14, 1986.
Date: November 10, 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
OTA Vertical File (open access)

OTA Vertical File

Indexing document by file number.
Date: January 30, 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
OTA Management Retreat (open access)

OTA Management Retreat

Report by the OTA staff development group at the Wye retreat.
Date: September 27, 1984
Creator: Naismith, Nancy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Status Report (open access)

A Status Report

Objectives for the OTA in the statutory mandate of the Technology Assessment Act and the policy directives.
Date: 1976
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography of Archival Materials (open access)

Bibliography of Archival Materials

Bibliography of archival materials, by author and by date.
Date: unknown
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biotechnology in a global economy : summary (open access)

Biotechnology in a global economy : summary

This report examines the impact of biotechnology in several industries including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture and hazardous waste clean-up.
Date: October 1991
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee and Subcommittee Assignments for the 108th Congress (open access)

Committee and Subcommittee Assignments for the 108th Congress

The Senate of United States Committee and Subcommittee Assignments for the 108th Congress.
Date: March 31, 2003
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Committee and Subcommittee Assignments for the 107th Congress (open access)

Committee and Subcommittee Assignments for the 107th Congress

The Senate of the United States Committee and Subcommittee Assignments for the 107th congress.
Date: November 29, 2001
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Informational Technology and Its Impact on American Education : summary (open access)

Informational Technology and Its Impact on American Education : summary

This report documents two sets of conclusions: the impact of the information revolution driven by rapid advances in communication and computer technology, and how information technology can improve and enrich education.
Date: September 6, 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
OTA Management Retreat (open access)

OTA Management Retreat

The agenda for the 1985 senior management retreat including OTA staff suggestion memos and other documentation.
Date: 1985
Creator: Naismith, Nancy
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Publishing Style and Procedures (open access)

Publishing Style and Procedures

In-house document for publishing procedures and conventions. It includes copy editing and grammar style.
Date: 1994
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1989 (open access)

Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1989

This quarterly report includes formal assessments, technical memoranda, background papers, testimony, staff papers, and administrative documents for the Technology Assessment Board.
Date: 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resource Analysis FY93 (open access)

Resource Analysis FY93

This is an OTA resource analysis report.
Date: November 8, 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
OTA Senior Management Retreat (open access)

OTA Senior Management Retreat

This document describes the activities at the OTA Senior Management Retreat in Rockwood Manor, Maryland, which was held from November 16-17, 1992.
Date: November 17, 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personnel Service Manual (open access)

Personnel Service Manual

This is a personnel services manual, which includes areas of responsibility and services provided.
Date: 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aid to developing countries: the technology/ecology fit (open access)

Aid to developing countries: the technology/ecology fit

This report focuses primarily on AID and to a lesser extent on the World Bank. AID and the World Bank have made the most observable efforts to integrate environmental and development concerns.
Date: June 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Border war on drugs (open access)

The Border war on drugs

A report on smuggling of illegal drugs into the United States is a problem of serious proportions. The three major drugs of foreign source—cocaine, heroin, and marijuana-are the products traded by an enormous criminal enterprise whose retail sales total approximately $50 billion annually. Federal efforts to stop or deter international narcotics trafficking have met with only limited success.
Date: March 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial newsgathering from space (open access)

Commercial newsgathering from space

This technical memorandum concludes that although the technology is available to create a mediasat system, the high cost and current low demand for remotely sensed data will limit media efforts to own and operate a dedicated remote sensing satellite system.
Date: May 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Costs of AIDS and other HIV infections: review of the estimates (open access)

The Costs of AIDS and other HIV infections: review of the estimates

A report on analyzes the reasons behind widely divergent estimates of the costs associated with AIDS. Because of the great variation in methods used, the results are not strictly comparable across studies.
Date: May 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defending secrets, sharing data: new locks and keys for electronic information (open access)

Defending secrets, sharing data: new locks and keys for electronic information

This report examines Federal policies directed at protecting information, particularly in electronic communications systems.
Date: October 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do Insects Transmit AIDS? (open access)

Do Insects Transmit AIDS?

In this report: 1) the evidence for the possibility of insect transmission of HIV infection is summarized, and 2) areas for further investigation are identified.
Date: September 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Electronic supervisor: new technology, new tensions (open access)

The Electronic supervisor: new technology, new tensions

This report deals with the use of computer-based technologies to measure how fast or how accurately employees work. New computer-based office systems are giving employers new ways to supervise job performance and control employees’ use of telephones, but such systems are also controversial because they generate such detailed information about the employees they monitor.
Date: September 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identifying and regulating carcinogens (open access)

Identifying and regulating carcinogens

This background paper was requested by the House Government Operations Committee and its Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources. In it, OTA describes policies issued by Federal agencies concerning the identification, assessment, and regulation of carcinogenic chemicals; the chemicals that have been regulated because of carcinogenic risk; the Federal Government’s carcinogenicity testing program; and the results of OTA’s analysis of the extent of agency action on chemicals determined to be carcinogenic.
Date: November 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library