Technology Assessment
The reports listed below comprise GAO's body of work in this area. The reports are listed from most recent to oldest, and span subjects from neutron detectors to climate engineering to biometrics. Each of these cross-cutting reports affect many of GAO's key issues.
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Water Use in Hydraulic Fracturing
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Water Use in Thermoelectric Power Plants
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Depiction of the Global Carbon Cycle Changes Over Time
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Global Average Energy Budget of the Earth's Atmosphere
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Depiction of Neutron Detectors
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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, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- personst@gao.gov
- 202-512-6412
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- Nabajyoti Barkakati, Ph.D
- Chief Technologist, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- barkakatin@gao.gov
- 202-512-6412