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The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was established by the Technology Assessment Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-484) to provide the Congress with the 'new effective means for securing competent, unbiased information concerning t...
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The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was established by the Technology Assessment Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-484) to provide the Congress with the 'new effective means for securing competent, unbiased information concerning the physical, biological, economic, social and political effects of technological applications.' The report summarizes the activities of OTA for the calendar year 1988. Included are discussions of its organization and operation, summaries of assessments completed during 1986, descriptions of work in progress, and a list of staff members, advisors, and panel members. A copy of the Technology Assessment Act of 1972 is also included.
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This report provides guidance on how to assign a technology readiness level (TRL). The method proposed assists in assigning TRLs through a series of questions that focus on a set of unambiguous maturation metrics. This method is s...
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This report provides guidance on how to assign a technology readiness level (TRL). The method proposed assists in assigning TRLs through a series of questions that focus on a set of unambiguous maturation metrics. This method is slightly biased towards the environment and approach to technology maturation at Sandia National Laboratories where customers and suppliers are in very close proximity to one another, allowing for supplier-customer interactions at a very early stage in technology development. The hope is that this report can serve as a practical guide to anyone trying to understand the maturity of a specific technology. Risk is reduced in system acquisition by selecting mature technologies for inclusion in system development. TRLs are used to assess the maturity of evolving technologies and therefore become part of an overall risk reduction strategy in system development.
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The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota supports a full-time, multidisciplinary professional staff and state-of-the-art testing and laboratory facilities that conduct work to minimize commercialization barriers through customized programs of technical support, partnership brokering, systems engineering, and field demonstrations. Under Environmental Management (EM) Cooperative Agreements with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), the EERC has instituted 'hands-on' focused technical support, partnership brokering, and field demonstrations that provide a vehicle for rapid commercialization and deployment. The EERC is currently conduction an EM Cooperative Agreement, the Environmental Technologies Acceptance (ETA) Program, which allows the EERC to continue to assist industry partners to help the U.S. Department of energy (DOE) meet its goals through the development of safe, cost-effective, and efficient technologies....
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The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota supports a full-time, multidisciplinary professional staff and state-of-the-art testing and laboratory facilities that conduct work to minimize commercialization barriers through customized programs of technical support, partnership brokering, systems engineering, and field demonstrations. Under Environmental Management (EM) Cooperative Agreements with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), the EERC has instituted 'hands-on' focused technical support, partnership brokering, and field demonstrations that provide a vehicle for rapid commercialization and deployment. The EERC is currently conduction an EM Cooperative Agreement, the Environmental Technologies Acceptance (ETA) Program, which allows the EERC to continue to assist industry partners to help the U.S. Department of energy (DOE) meet its goals through the development of safe, cost-effective, and efficient technologies.
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The discussion on distance learning technology: discourages evaluation questions which have not proved useful in the past; suggests that future evaluations distinguish between the effects of delivery and instructional technologies...
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The discussion on distance learning technology: discourages evaluation questions which have not proved useful in the past; suggests that future evaluations distinguish between the effects of delivery and instructional technologies; offers some generic evaluation plans, questions and examples associated with delivery and instruction; and discusses issues related to the evaluation of distance learning cost-effectiveness.
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The report has two primary goals: to provide provocative ideas on how emerging forces external to education may shape the future of distance learning and to depict a potential new field, technology-mediated interactive learning, t...
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The report has two primary goals: to provide provocative ideas on how emerging forces external to education may shape the future of distance learning and to depict a potential new field, technology-mediated interactive learning, that may result from the synthesis of distance learning, cooperative learning, and computer-supported cooperative work. First, the major technological, demographic, economic, political, and pedagogical forces driving the evolution of distance learning are described. Second, a probable outcome of these advances is depicted: the emergence of technology-mediated interactive learning (TMIL) as a major form of instruction. Then, illustrative, paradigmatic research shaping the development of TMIL is discussed. Finally, as distance learning evolves into TMIL, its likely cognitive, emotional, and maturational effects are briefly assessed.
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The Department of Commerce has concluded, in a review of emerging technologies and their future impact on the economy, that American businesses lag behind many of their foreign competitors, especially the Japanese, in exploiting t...
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The Department of Commerce has concluded, in a review of emerging technologies and their future impact on the economy, that American businesses lag behind many of their foreign competitors, especially the Japanese, in exploiting technological breakthroughs. The review's primary focus is upon identifying ten barriers to commercialization and making recommendations for overcoming them.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) is a product of the militarily critical technologies program (MCTP) process. This process involves a systematic, ongoing assessment and analysis of techn...
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The Department of Defense (DoD) Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) is a product of the militarily critical technologies program (MCTP) process. This process involves a systematic, ongoing assessment and analysis of technologies to determine those that are critical to U.S. military forces. It assigns values and parameters to the technologies and covers the worldwide technology spectrum. Technologies are selected for the MCTL through the deliberation and consensus of Technology Working Groups (TWGs). TWG chairpersons continually screen technologies and nominate items to be added or removed from the MCTL. Working with an informal structure, TWG members who come from government, industry, and academia strive to produce precise and objective analyses across the technology areas. Part II of the MCTL is titled Developing Critical Technologies. Developing Critical Technologies lists technologies that will produce increasingly superior performance of military systems or maintain a superior capability more affordably. It focuses on worldwide technologies that will become available in the future for incorporation into U.S. weapons systems.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) is a product of the militarily critical technologies program (MCTP) process. This process involves a systematic, ongoing assessment and analysis of techn...
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The Department of Defense (DoD) Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) is a product of the militarily critical technologies program (MCTP) process. This process involves a systematic, ongoing assessment and analysis of technologies to determine those that are critical to U.S. military forces. It assigns values and parameters to the technologies and covers the worldwide technology spectrum. Technologies are selected for the MCTL through the deliberation and consensus of Technology Working Groups (TWGs). TWG chairpersons continually screen technologies and nominate items to be added or removed from the MCTL. Working with an informal structure, TWG members who come from government, industry, and academia strive to produce precise and objective analyses across the technology areas. Part I of the MCTL is titled Weapons Systems Technologies. Weapons Systems Technologies details critical technologies with performance parameters that are at or above the minimum level necessary to ensure continuing superior performance of systems used by the department of Defense and supporting entities.
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This report provides guidance on how to assign a technology readiness level (TRL). The method proposed assists in assigning TRLs through a series of questions that focus on a set of unambiguous maturation metrics. This method is s...
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This report provides guidance on how to assign a technology readiness level (TRL). The method proposed assists in assigning TRLs through a series of questions that focus on a set of unambiguous maturation metrics. This method is slightly biased towards the environment and approach to technology maturation at Sandia National Laboratories where customers and suppliers are in very close proximity to one another, allowing for supplier-customer interactions at a very early stage in technology development. The hope is that this report can serve as a practical guide to anyone trying to understand the maturity of a specific technology. Risk is reduced in system acquisition by selecting mature technologies for inclusion in system development. TRLs are used to assess the maturity of evolving technologies and therefore become part of an overall risk reduction strategy in system development.
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