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BOX 9-76 Office of Technology Assessment, 1970-2012
The Office of Technology Assessment series chronicles Gibbons's career as director of the office from 1979 to 1993 and further documents the activities of the office. The office was established in 1972 as a bipartisan agency of the United States Congress to provide independent, expert, and comprehensive analysis on issues involving the impacts of science and technology upon society. Under Gibbons's leadership, the office generated reports on diverse topics over the entire spectrum of technologies that affect or are affected by public policy. Topics range from agriculture to health, energy, biotechnology, environment, nuclear weapons, and space programs. Some of the reports or documentation about working on these reports are included in the series. An extensive speech and engagement file in the series includes Gibbons's handwritten, typed, and printed speeches. Also included are his testimonies before Congress and presentations highlighting the office's mission, activities, and accomplishments. Digital files contain audio and video files of Gibbons's speeches and engagements from 1979 to 1993 along with supporting papers. The paper and digital files complement each other. Speech and engagement topics include agricultural innovations, climate change, dependency on foreign oil, energy, nuclear arms race, renewable resources, science, space stations, sustainable development, and technology policies and strategies. Documents in the series provide insight into Gibbons's efforts to help Germany start an equivalent to the Office of Technology Assessment in 1988. Included in subject files are documentation of Gibbons's involvement with the 1982 World's Fair and International Energy Symposia Series. Also included in topical files are paper and digital files about defunding the Office of Technology Assessment in 1995 and subsequent efforts to reestablish it.
Material types include correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, testimonies, transcripts, appointment calendars, articles, proceedings, reports, printed matter, telephone logs, and writings about the office. Digital files contain audio and video files.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material and therein alphabetically or chronologically. File structure of the digital content maintained as received.
BOX 9 Appointment calenders
BOX 9 1979-1981
(3 folders)
BOX 10 1982-1984
(3 folders)
BOX 11 1985-1987
(3 folders)
BOX 12 1988-1990
(3 folders)
BOX 13 1991-1992
(2 folders)
BOX 13 Chronological file
BOX 13 1979-1987
(2 folders)
BOX 14 1988-1992
(3 folders)
BOX 14 Correspondence
BOX 14 General
BOX 14 1978-1989
(2 folders)
BOX 15 1990-1993
(4 folders)
BOX 15 Letters of recommendation
BOX 15 1979-1989
(4 folders)
BOX 16 1990-1992
(3 folders)
BOX 16 Notes, 1982-1991
BOX 16 Report briefs and press releases
BOX 16 1974-1981
(4 folders)
BOX 17 1982-1991
(6 folders)
BOX 18 1992
BOX 18 Reports, studies, and technical memoranda
BOX 18 Acid Rain and Transported Air Pollutants, 1984
BOX 18 Annual Report to the Congress, 20th anniversary edition, 1992
BOX 18 Annual Report to the Congress, director's statement, 1979-1992
BOX 18 Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures, and Arms Control, 1984-1985
BOX 18 Arms Control in Space, 1984
BOX 18 Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, 1985
BOX 18 Blood Policy and Technology, 1985
BOX 18 C3I, 1983
BOX 18 Changing by Degrees: Steps to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, 1991
BOX 18 Civilian Space Policy and Applications, 1980-1983
(2 folders)
BOX 19 Civilian Space Stations and the U.S. Future, 1982-1992
(2 folders)
BOX 19 Complex Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production, 1991-1993
BOX 19 Computerized Manufacturing Automation: Employment, Education, and the Workplace, 1984
BOX 19 Effects of Nuclear War, 1979-1983
(2 folders)
BOX 19 Energy Use and the U.S. Economy, 1990-1991
BOX 19 Fueling Development: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries, 1992
BOX 19 Global Models, World Futures, and Public Policy: A Critique, 1980-1983
BOX 19 Habitability of the Love Canal Area, 1983
BOX 19 Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States, 1993-1998
BOX 19 High speed rail, 1984
BOX 19 Increased Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Synthetic Fuels, 1982-1989
BOX 19 Industrial and Commercial Cogeneration, 1983
DF Linking for Learning: A New Course for Education, video file, 1990
Digital ID: mss85103_187_047
BOX 19 Managing the Nation's Commercial High-Level Radioactive Waste, 1985-2003
BOX 20 MX Missile Basing, 1981-1983
(2 folders)
BOX 20 News releases, 1974-1976
BOX 20 Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty, 1984
DF Power On! New Tools for Teaching and Learning, video file, 1988
Digital ID: mss85103_187_042
BOX 20 Private Ownership of Landsat Raises Important Foreign Policy Issues, 1984
BOX 20 Salyut: Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space, 1983-1984
BOX 20 Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation, 1983-1984
BOX 20 SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software, 1985-1989
(2 folders)
BOX 20 Solar Power Satellites, 1981-1982
BOX 20 Technologies for Prehistoric and Historic Preservation, 1986-1988
BOX 20 Technology and Handicapped People, 1982
BOX 21 Technology, Innovation, and Regional Economic Development, 1984
BOX 21 Trade and Environment: Conflicts and Opportunities, 1992
BOX 21 Unconventional Cancer Treatments, 1990-1991
BOX 21 U.S. Natural Gas Availability: Conventional Gas Supply Through the Year 2000, 1983-1984
BOX 21 U.S.-Soviet Cooperation in Space, 1985
BOX 21 Wetlands: Their Use and Regulation, 1984
BOX 21 Speech and engagement file
BOX 21 1979
BOX 21 Jan.-June
(3 folders)
BOX 21 July
(2 folders)
BOX 22 July
(3 folders)
BOX 22 Aug.
BOX 22 Oct.
(3 folders)
BOX 23 Oct.
(3 folders)
BOX 23 Nov.
(3 folders)
BOX 24 Dec.
BOX 24 1980
BOX 24 Jan.-Feb.
(6 folders)
BOX 25 Mar.-Apr.
(5 folders)
BOX 25 May
(1 folder)
BOX 26 May
(3 folders)
BOX 26 June
(4 folders)
BOX 27 July-Aug.
(6 folders)
BOX 27 Sept.
(1 folder)
BOX 28 Sept.
(1 folder)
BOX 28 Oct.-Dec.
(4 folders)
BOX 28 1981
BOX 28 Jan.
BOX 29 Feb.-Apr.
(5 folders)
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