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In the Senate report accompanying the proposed bill for the legislative branch fiscal year 2008 appropriation, the Senate Committee on Appropriations recommended the establishment of a permanent technology assessment function within GAO. The House Committee on Appropriations noted that "it is necessary for the Congress to equip itself with effective means for securing competent, timely and unbiased information concerning the effects of scientific and technical developments and use the information in the legislative assessment of matters pending before the Congress."
GAO's Center for Science, Technology, and Engineering, within its Applied Research and Methods team, manages the permanent technology assessment program. GAO defines technology assessment as the thorough and balanced analysis of significant primary, indirect, and delayed interactions of a technological innovation with society, the environment, and the economy and the present and foreseen consequences and impacts of those interactions.
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- Tim Persons, Ph.D
- Chief Scientist, Applied Research & Methods
- personst@gao.gov
- 202-512-6412
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- Nabajyoti Barkakati, Ph.D
- Chief Technologist, Applied Research & Methods
- barkakatin@gao.gov
- 202-512-6412