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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been actively involved in the support of technology assessments and associated research since 1971. Over one hundred projects have been supported through research awards totalling approximately ten million dollars. The program which directs this activity has evolved through several organizational identities, and is now in the Technology Assessment and Risk Analysis (TARA) Group. It is an element of the Division of Policy Research and Analysis (PRA) in the Directorate for Scientific, Technological, and International Affairs (STIA). Research which is supported by the TARA program is coordinated with other appropriate agencies, particularly the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the Congress.
This paper was prepared with the assistance of Mark Abernathy of the Technology Assessment and Risk Analysis Group, NSF. The opinions, findings and conclusions are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of National Science Foundation or any other agency of the U.S. Government.
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Johnson, G.P. (1983). Review of Selected Technology Assessment Studies of Information Technologies in the United States of America. In: Szyperski, N., Grochla, E., Richter, U.M., Weitz, W.P. (eds) Assessing the Impacts of Information Technology. Program Applied Informatics. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-85393-6_6
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