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Insider's Guide to OTA
Date: January 1995
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Description: An informal orientation to the OTA. Addresses new employees' frequently asked questions; intended as a complimentary document to the official Employee Handbook.
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Catalog of OTA Publications, 1972 - 1994
Date: January 1995
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Description: A cumulative catalog of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) documents published from 1972 through 1994.
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Office of Technology Assessment FY1994 Annual Report to Congress, March 1995
Date: March 1995
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Description: 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.
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Insider's Guide to OTA, January 1995
Date: January 1995
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Description: This guide is intended as an informal orientation to some aspects of life at the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), and to answer some of the questions frequently asked about OTA. This guide was created in the hopes of acquainting new employees with the procedures, materials, information, and expertise that lie within OTA.
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OTA Role & Function, 1995
Date: 1995
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Description: This pamphlet briefly outlines the function and purpose of the Office of Technology Assessment.
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Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) Resources, February 1995
Date: February 1995
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Description: This collection of Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) Resources information briefs details assessments and documents completed by OTA and categorized into a variety of topics, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, defense technology, and energy research and development.
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A History of the Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
Date: June 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: The focus of this paper is the history of Department of Defense (DoD) Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) over the past 50 years, which forms part of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) study of defense modeling and simulation.
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Impacts of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria: Thanks to penicillin-- He will come home!
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report discusses what is known about the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and describes research and development aimed at controlling those organisms. It concludes that efforts are necessary both to preserve the effectiveness of currently available antibiotics and to develop new antibiotics. It discusses issues that arise in these activities, and it presents options for taking action.
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Technology and Policy for Suppressing Grain Dust Explosions in Storage Facilities
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report responds to the bipartisan request of the House Committee on Agriculture to assess alternative technologies with regard to their effectiveness in suppressing grain dust, the benefits and costs of each technology, and the costs of banning the use of water as a dust suppressant.
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The Effectiveness of Research and Experimentation Tax Credits
Date: September 1995
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report assesses how well the research and experimentation R&E tax credit is currently understood, identifies inadequacies in the existing data and analyses, investigates implementation issues, considers the tax credit in the context of corporate R&D trends and Federal R&D policy more broadly, draws appropriate international comparisons, and specifies important avenues for further research.
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