(Note: The following report was sent, I believe, on accident while requesting another document. Since the result was still interesting, it is being archived here for reference, and the original document requested has had another case filed to track it down.)

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Technology Forecast: Nonconventional Energy Sources for the Future Soldier – 29 June 2009 [14 Pages, 1.6MB]

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Technology Trends: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology, published 18 September 2009 [4 Pages, 1.1MB]

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Cost as a Factor in Soviet Weapons Decisionmaking [9 Pages, 610KB] – Intuitively, one believes that cost ought to be a significant decisionmaking factor in the Soviet weapons acquisition process. If that is indeed true, then DoD decisionmakers should be quite interested in when, how, and to what extent cost shapes the outcome of the Soviet weapons acquisition process. However, interest alone is not enough. There must also be sufficient data available about the role that cost plays in the process. With these perspectives in mind, the authors undertook this project, under IDA’s Independent Research Program, aimed at: (1) ascertaining whether DoD officials were in fact interested in the impact of cost in shaping Soviet weapons choices, and, if so, where this concern might play in the U.S. decisionmaking process; as well as (2) identifying potential data to address DoD’s concerns. The project was limited to about six man-weeks of effort (split between two analysts). Hence, the results are necessarily modest. Nevertheless, this preliminary investigation revealed that there is interest in the topic and that data are available to address several significant issues.

Indications of a Soviet Particle Beam Weapon Program. I. High-Current Electron-Beam Propagation in Air [51 Pages, 7.6MB] – The note is the first in a series investigating, on the basis of evidence in Soviet open-source technical publications, the possible existence of a Soviet military program to develop charged-particle beam weapons and the probable history of such a program.

Indications of a Soviet Particle Beam Weapon Program. II. Pulsed Power Closing Switches, August 1981 [101 Pages, 2.5MB] – The note is the first in a series investigating, on the basis of evidence in Soviet open-source technical publications, the possible existence of a Soviet military program to develop charged-particle beam weapons and the probable history of such a program.

More Powerful than the Hyperboloid, 6 December 1967 [9 Pages, 610KB] – Many pre-World War II Soviet publications carried articles on the so- called death rays. More often than not, these articles, based largely on non-Soviet data, were pure science fiction. The few serious articles referred to deadly weapons using heat rays. The concept of weaponry changed drastically with the advent of lasers, which emit stimulated rather than thermal radiation. Mention is made of the use of lasers in multichannel communication systems, ranging of planetary surfaces, metallurgy, plasma diagnostics, biology, medicine, etc. The article also reviews Soviet contributions to the development of the laser.

Perestroika and Change in Soviet Weapons Acquisition [110 Pages, 6.0MB] – This report reviews two major issues. The first is the application of defense industry resources to civilian uses–commonly called conversion. This review places the ongoing process in a broader economic, organizational, and political context. However, since the process continues to unfold, often in unplanned ways, some guidelines are given for evaluating the shifting picture of Soviet behavior. The second issue involves the effects of contemporary weapons technology and complexity on the ability of the Soviet Union to design, develop, and produce military systems that meet the requirements of the military.

Soviet Science and Weapons Acquisition [61 Pages, 1.34MB] – The principal actors in Soviet science and weapons acquisition include the nine military-production ministries; the Ministry of Defense; the military and civilian science sectors; and two coordinating agencies–the powerful Military-Industrial Commission (VPK), and the State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT). The military science, sector is defined as comprising the research institutes of the military-production ministries, and institutes directly subordinated to the Defense Ministry and the military services. The civilian science sector consists of the USSR Academy of Sciences, its Siberian Division, and the regional academies of sciences; the research component of the higher educational institutions; and the research establishments of the civilian production ministries. Soviet science organizations are marked by their separation–by administration, stage of R&D, and scientific field.

 Soviet View of Laser Weapons, April 26, 1974 [10 Pages, 6.1MB]

Soviet Weapon-System Acquisition [91 Pages, 6.1MB] – The Soviet Union has built the largest peacetime military establishment in history, a force whose size dwarfs any military establishment in the West. Only the combined efforts of the collective Western alliance can approach the Soviets’ armament effort. The Soviet Union, in support of its military goals, has dedicated a larger share of its natural and industrial resources year after year to the production of military weapons than has any other country in peacetime. Research was undertaken to ascertain if the Soviet methodology of transitioning a weapon into production and subsequent manufacturing management differed significantly from United States practice and, if so, whether there were aspects of the Soviet methodology that could be usefully applied in managing U.S. weapons in the production/engineering and deployment to manufacturing stages. The document also reviews Soviet policies for logistical support of equipment.

Soviet Weapons Development and the Scientific Community, 31 Jan 1985 [36 Pages, 1.9MB] – Topics include: Development of the Soviet T-34 Tank, Organizations in Soviet Weapons R/D and Science, Soviet Weapons Acquisition Process, Characteristics of Soviet Weapon Design, Science Ties to the Soviet Military, Types of Linkages between Science and the Military, Nature of Scientific Support, and The Three Components of Soviet Military R/D.

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Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) enables synchronous communication among the Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet) and Secure Internet Protocol Routing Network (SIPRNet). The capability includes Web Conferencing (session management, text messaging, application sharing/broadcasting, audio, presence and awareness, voting/polling, video, multiple sessions, and recording) and Instant Messaging (IM).

DCS supports Common Access Card (CAC) and select hard token holders and unanticipated (select DOD mission partners) users. Anticipated users are issued accounts which authorize privileges to manage/control collaboration sessions, whereas unanticipated users are provided ad hoc guest access without pre-specified roles/permissions.

Capacity

DCS can scale to handle 10,000 concurrent users with a maximum of 250 participants per web conference. Mission partners requiring collaboration above 250 participants can leverage DISA’s Global Content Delivery Service (GCDS) in lieu of DCS. The DCS Chat service is scalable to support 100,000 concurrent users.

Service Continuity

DCS ensures continuity of operations (COOP) through a fault-tolerant design. DCS can tolerate the failure of one of any type of component. The system is designed to continue operating in the event of a single failure of any one component in the primary site.

 Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) Fact Sheet [2 Pages, 0.5MB]

 Defense Collaboration Services PIV Activation Guide, May 2015 [116 Pages, 12.4MB]

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/disa/DefenseCollaborationServicesPIVActivationGuide.pdf

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I felt that the intelligence community would probably take a great interest in this technology, and I requested information from multiple agencies to see what they might have. Many are still being processed, but what has come back is available below:

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Records

 Central Intelligence Agency [ 2 Pages, 0.2MB ]

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Records

 Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, Released October 2015 [ 27 Pages, 18.9MB ]

Additional Information on Tor (For Reference)

(Source)

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor’s users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than making a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and individuals to share information over public networks without compromising their privacy. Along the same line, Tor is an effective censorship circumvention tool, allowing its users to reach otherwise blocked destinations or content. Tor can also be used as a building block for software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features.

Individuals use Tor to keep websites from tracking them and their family members, or to connect to news sites, instant messaging services, or the like when these are blocked by their local Internet providers. Tor’s hidden services let users publish web sites and other services without needing to reveal the location of the site. Individuals also use Tor for socially sensitive communication: chat rooms and web forums for rape and abuse survivors, or people with illnesses.

Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) use Tor to allow their workers to connect to their home website while they’re in a foreign country, without notifying everybody nearby that they’re working with that organization.

Groups such as Indymedia recommend Tor for safeguarding their members’ online privacy and security. Activist groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recommend Tor as a mechanism for maintaining civil liberties online. Corporations use Tor as a safe way to conduct competitive analysis, and to protect sensitive procurement patterns from eavesdroppers. They also use it to replace traditional VPNs, which reveal the exact amount and timing of communication. Which locations have employees working late? Which locations have employees consulting job-hunting websites? Which research divisions are communicating with the company’s patent lawyers?

A branch of the U.S. Navy uses Tor for open source intelligence gathering, and one of its teams used Tor while deployed in the Middle East recently. Law enforcement uses Tor for visiting or surveilling web sites without leaving government IP addresses in their web logs, and for security during sting operations.

The variety of people who use Tor is actually part of what makes it so secure. Tor hides you among the other users on the network, so the more populous and diverse the user base for Tor is, the more your anonymity will be protected.

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Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight. (NASA SP-2006-4702)

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The 154-page document was prepared by the Mars 2020 Science Definition Team, which NASA appointed in January to outline scientific objectives for the mission. The team, composed of 19 scientists and engineers from universities and research organizations, proposed a mission concept that could accomplish several high-priority planetary science goals and be a major step in meeting President Obama’s challenge to send humans to Mars in the 2030s.

“Crafting the science and exploration goals is a crucial milestone in preparing for our next major Mars mission,” said John Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator for science in Washington. “The objectives determined by NASA with the input from this team will become the basis later this year for soliciting proposals to provide instruments to be part of the science payload on this exciting step in Mars exploration.”

NASA will conduct an open competition for the payload and science instruments. They will be placed on a rover similar to Curiosity, which landed on Mars almost a year ago. Using Curiosity’s design will help minimize mission costs and risks and deliver a rover that can accomplish the mission objectives.

The 2020 mission proposed by the Science Definition Team would build upon the accomplishments of Curiosity and other Mars missions. The Spirit and Opportunity rovers, along with several orbiters, found evidence Mars has a watery history. Curiosity recently confirmed that past environmental conditions on Mars could have supported living microbes. According to the Science Definition Team, looking for signs of past life is the next logical step.

The team’s report details how the rover would use its instruments for visual, mineralogical and chemical analysis down to microscopic scale to understand the environment around its landing site and identify biosignatures, or features in the rocks and soil that could have been formed biologically.

“The Mars 2020 mission concept does not presume that life ever existed on Mars,” said Jack Mustard, chairman of the Science Definition Team and a professor at the Geological Sciences at Brown University in Providence, R.I. “However, given the recent Curiosity findings, past Martian life seems possible, and we should begin the difficult endeavor of seeking the signs of life. No matter what we learn, we would make significant progress in understanding the circumstances of early life existing on Earth and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life.”

The measurements needed to explore a site on Mars to interpret ancient habitability and the potential for preserved biosignatures are identical to those needed to select and cache samples for future return to Earth. The Science Definition Team is proposing the rover collect and package as many as 31 samples of rock cores and soil for a later mission to bring back for more definitive analysis in laboratories on Earth. The science conducted by the rover’s instruments would expand our knowledge of Mars and provide the context needed to make wise decisions about whether to return the samples to Earth.

“The Mars 2020 mission will provide a unique capability to address the major questions of habitability and life in the solar system,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division in Washington. “This mission represents a major step towards creating high-value sampling and interrogation methods, as part of a broader strategy for sample returns by planetary missions.”

Samples collected and analyzed by the rover will help inform future human exploration missions to Mars. The rover could make measurements and technology demonstrations to help designers of a human expedition understand any hazards posed by Martian dust and demonstrate how to collect carbon dioxide, which could be a resource for making oxygen and rocket fuel. Improved precision landing technology that enhances the scientific value of robotic missions also will be critical for eventual human exploration on the surface.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages NASA’s Mars Exploration Program for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Mars 2020 – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – [ 3 Pages, 0.1 MB ]

Report of the Mars 2020 Science Definition Team [ 154 Pages, 27.82 MB ]

Appendices to the Report of the Mars 2020 Science Definition Team – [ 51 Pages, 3.48 MB ]

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The Seventh Symposium on Ballistic Missile and Space Technology was held at the U. S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, on 13-16 August 1962. It was sponsored jointly by the Air Force and the Aerospace Corporation.

 TRANSACTIONS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON BALLISTIC MISSILE AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY (7TH) HELD AT THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY, COLORADO, ON 13-16 AUGUST 1962. VOLUME I. SPACE VEHICLES AND SYSTEM DESIGN HYPERSONICS AND RE-ENTRY TECHNIQUES PROPULSION STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS MATHEMATICAL RELIABILITY TECHNIQUES [530 Pages, 22.7MB]

The Eighth Symposium on Ballistic Missile and Space Technology, 1963

The Eighth Symposium on Ballistic Missile and Space Technology was held at the U. S. Naval Training Center, San Diego, California, on 16- 18 October 1963. It was sponsored by the Space Systems Division and the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Force Systems Command, and was
conducted by the Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California.

 TRANSACTIONS OF THE EIGHTH SYMPOSIUM ON BALLISTIC MISSILE AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY, HELD AT THE UNITED STATES NAVAL TRAINING CENTER SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA ON 16-18 OCTOBER 1963. VOLUME II. RE-ENTRY AEROPHYSICS PENETRATION GUIDANCE AND CONTROL RECOVERY SYSTEMS SPACE ELECTROMAGNETICS [416 Pages, 13.03MB]

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OTA occupied a unique role among the Congressional information agencies. Unlike the General Accounting Office, which is primarily concerned with evaluation of ongoing programs, and the Congressional Research Service, which provides rapid information on legislative topics, OTA provided a deeper, more comprehensive, and more technical level of analysis. Through eleven Congressional sessions, OTA became a key resource for Congressional members and staff confronting technological issues in crafting public policy. Its existence brought a healthy balance to the analytical resources available to the executive and legislative branches of government.

The agency’s legacy is found in the many items of legislation it influenced and in the channels of communication its staff helped foster between legislative policymakers and members of the scientific, technical, and business communities.

The Black Vault has archived here the complete collection of reports and data issued by the OTA. Clicking on any document below will take you directly to the report, all in .pdf format. This collection holds 110,670 pages in total.

1995

1. Advanced Automotive Technology: Visions of a Super-Efficient Family Car
2. Adverse Reactions to HIV Vaccines: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Issues
3. Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies
4. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1994
5. Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Selected Case Studies
6. Biologically Based Technologies for Pest Control
7. Bringing Health Care Online: The Role of Information Technologies
8. Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy
9. Cleaning Up Contaminated Wood-Treating Sites
10. The Cost-Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Average-Risk Adults
11. Costs and Effectiveness of Prostate Cancer Screening in Elderly Men
12. Coverage of Laser Technology by Health Insurers
13. Current Status of Federal Involvement in U.S. Aquaculture
14. Distributed Interactive Simulation of Combat
15. Does Vocational Education Help the “Forgotten Half”?: Short-term Economic Consequences of High School Vocational Education for Non-College Students
16. Education and Technology: Future Visions
17. Effectiveness and Costs of Osteoporosis Screening and Hormone Replacement Therapy, Vol. I: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
18. Effectiveness and Costs of Osteoporosis Screening and Hormone Replacement Therapy, Vol. II: Evidence on Benefits, Risks, and Costs
19. The Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Efforts
20. The Effectiveness of Research and Experimentation Tax Credits
21. Electronic Surveillance in a Digital Age
22. Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards
23. Environmental Policy Tools: A User’s Guide
24. Environmental Technology: Analysis of Selected Federal R&D Programs
25. EPA Superfund Actions and ATSDR Public Health Data
26. Federal Technology Transfer and the Human Genome Project
27. Fish Passage Technologies: Protection at Hydropower Facilities
28. Flat Panel Displays in Perspective
29. Foreign Eligibility for U.S. Technology Funding
30. The Fusion Energy Program: The Role of TPX and Alternate Concepts
31. Gauging Control Technology and Regulatory Impacts in Occupational Safety and Health: An Appraisal of OSHA’s Analytic Approach
32. Global Communications: Opportunities for Trade and Aid
33. Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries
34. A History of the Department of Defense Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
35. Hospital Financing in Seven Countries
36. Impact of Health Reform on Rural Areas: Lessons From the States
37. Impacts of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
38. Improving the Prospects for Future International Peace Operations: Workshop Proceedings
39. Information Technologies for the Control of Money Laundering
40. Innovation and Commercialization of Emerging Technologies
41. International Partnerships in Large Science Projects
42. Issue Update on Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments
43. Learning To Work: Making the Transition From School to Work
44. The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base
45. The National Space Transportation Policy: Issues for Congress
46. Nuclear Safeguards and the International Atomic Energy Agency
47. Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts From Soviet Nuclear Contamination
48. Occupational Training for Young People in the United Kingdom
49. Other Approaches to Civil-Military Integration: The Chinese and Japanese Arms Industries
50. Reducing Earthquake Losses
51. Reducing the Costs of Collecting Meteorological Data: A Workshop Summary
52. Renewing Our Energy Future
53. Risks to Students in School
54. Screening and Testing Chemicals in Commerce
55. Selected Technology Issues in U.S. Aquaculture
56. State of the States on Brownfields: Programs for Cleanup and Reuse of Contaminated Sites
57. Targeting Environmental Priorities in Agriculture: Reforming Program Strategies
58. Teachers and Technology: Making the Connection
59. The Technological Reshaping of Metropolitan America
60. Technology and Policy for Suppressing Grain Dust Explosions in Storage Facilities
61. Telecommunications Technology and Native Americans: Opportunities and Challenges
62. U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Space
63. Wireless Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure

1994

1. An Alaskan Challenge: Native Village Sanitation
2. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1993
3. Assessing the Potential for Civil-Military Integration: Technologies, Processes, and Practices
4. Civilian Satellite Remote Sensing: A Strategic Approach
5. Climate Treaties and Models: Issues in the International Management of Climate Change
6. Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice
7. The Department of Defense Kuwait Oil Health Fire Risk Assessment (The “Persian Gulf Veterans’ Registry”)
8. Electronic Enterprises: Looking to the Future
9. Energy Efficiency in Federal Facilities: Update on Funding and Potential Savings
10. Export Controls and Nonproliferation Policy
11. External Review of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV Prevention Program: Summary and Overview
12. Federal Research and Technology for Aviation
13. Fueling Reform: Energy Technologies for the Former East Bloc
14. Hip Fracture Outcomes in People Age 50 and Over
15. Identifying Health Technologies That Work: Searching for Evidence
16. Industry, Technology, and the Environment: Competitive Challenges and Business Opportunities
17. Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments
18. International Comparisons of Administrative Costs in Health Care
19. International Health Statistics: What the Numbers Mean for the United States
20. Managed Care and Competitive Health Care Markets: The Twin Cities Experience
21. Mental Disorders and Genetics: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Society
22. Multinationals and the U.S. Technology Base
23. Perspectives on the Role of Science and Technology in Sustainable Development
24. Power Sources for Remote Arctic Applications
25. Proliferation and the Former Soviet Union
26. Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act
27. Public Information About Osteoporosis: What’s Available, What’s Needed?
28. Remotely Sensed Data: Technology, Management and Markets
29. Review of the Medical Follow-Up Agency
30. Saving Energy in U.S. Transportation
31. The Social Security Administration’s Decentralized Computer Strategy: Issues and Options
32. Studies of the Environmental Costs of Electricity
33. Technical Options for the Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor
34. Technologies for Understanding and Preventing Substance Abuse and Addiction
35. Testing and Assessment in Vocational Education
36. Tools for Evaluating Health Technologies: Five Background Papers
37. Understanding Estimates of National Health Expenditures Under Health Reform
38. Understanding Estimates of the Impact of Health Reform on the Federal Budget
39. Universal Health Insurance and Uninsured People: Effects on Use and Cost
40. Virtual Reality and Technologies for Combat Simulation
41. Wage Record Information Systems

1993

1. The 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference: Technology and Policy Implications
2. Access to Over-the-Road Buses for Persons With Disabilities
3. Accessibility and Integrity of Networked Information Collections
4. Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime
5. Advanced Network Technology
6. Aging Nuclear Power Plants: Managing Plant Life and Decommissioning
7. Aircraft Evacuation Testing: Research and Technology Issues
8. Alternative Coca Reduction Strategies in the Andean Region
9. Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Clinical Preventive Services
10. Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Patient Cost-Sharing
11. Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction
12. Biopolymers: Making Materials Nature’s Way
13. The Chemical Weapons Convention: Effects on the U.S. Chemical Industry
14. Compilation of Abbreviations and Terms
15. The Continuing Challenge of Tuberculosis
16. Contributions of DOE Weapons Labs and NIST to Semiconductor Technology
17. Coverage of Preventive Services: Provisions of Selected Current Health Care Reform Proposals
18. Data Format Standards for Civilian Remote Sensing Satellites
19. Defense Conversion: Redirecting R&D
20. The Department of Veterans Affairs Persian Gulf Veterans’ Health Registry
21. Development Assistance, Export Promotion, and Environmental Technology
22. Dismantling the Bomb and Managing the Nuclear Materials
23. Drug Labeling in Developing Countries
24. Energy Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Utilities
25. Energy Efficiency Technologies for Central and Eastern Europe
26. The Future of Remote Sensing From Space: Civilian Satellite Systems and Applications
27. Global Change Research and NASA’s Earth Observing System
28. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States
29. Hazards Ahead: Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear Weapons Complex
30. Health Insurance: The Hawaii Experience
31. Impact of Legal Reforms on Medical Malpractice Costs
32. An Inconsistent Picture: A Compilation of Analyses of Economic Impacts of Competing Approaches to Health
33. Care Reform by Experts and Stakeholders
34. Industrial Energy Efficiency
35. Information Systems Related to Technology Transfer: A Report on Federal Technology Transfer in the United States
36. Making Government Work: Electronic Delivery of Federal Services
37. Multinationals and the National Interest: Playing by Different Rules
38. Pharmaceutical R&D: Costs, Risks, and Rewards
39. Potential Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Production
40. Preparing for an Uncertain Climate-Vol. I
41. Preparing for an Uncertain Climate-Vol. II
42. Proceedings: Technology and Governance in the 1990s. Papers Presented at the OTA 20th Anniversary Forum on Technology and Governance in the 1990s
43. Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks
44. Protecting Privacy in Computerized Medical Information
45. Pulling Together for Productivity: A Union-Management Initiative at US West, Inc.
46. Researching Health Risks
47. Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction
48. U.S. Telecommunications Services in European Markets
49. Water for Walker Lake
50. Who Goes There: Friend or Foe?

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OTA occupied a unique role among the Congressional information agencies. Unlike the General Accounting Office, which is primarily concerned with evaluation of ongoing programs, and the Congressional Research Service, which provides rapid information on legislative topics, OTA provided a deeper, more comprehensive, and more technical level of analysis. Through eleven Congressional sessions, OTA became a key resource for Congressional members and staff confronting technological issues in crafting public policy. Its existence brought a healthy balance to the analytical resources available to the executive and legislative branches of government.

The agency’s legacy is found in the many items of legislation it influenced and in the channels of communication its staff helped foster between legislative policymakers and members of the scientific, technical, and business communities.

The Black Vault has archived here the complete collection of reports and data issued by the OTA. Clicking on any document below will take you directly to the report, all in .pdf format. This collection holds 110,670 pages in total.

1992

1. After the Cold War: Living With Lower Defense Spending
2. Alaskan Water for California?: The Subsea Pipeline Option
3. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1991
4. The Biology of Mental Disorders
5. Building Energy Efficiency
6. Building Future Security: Strategies for Restructuring the Defense Technology and Industrial Base
7. The CDC’s Case Definition of AIDS: Implications of Proposed Revisions
8. Combined Summaries: Technologies To Sustain Tropical Forest Resources and Biological Diversity
9. Cystic Fibrosis and DNA Tests: Implications of Carrier Screening
10. Difficult-To-Reuse Needles for the Prevention of HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Abusers
11. Disposal of Chemical Weapons: Alternative Technologies
12. Do Medicaid and Medicare Patients Sue More Often Than Other Patients?
13. Does Health Insurance Make a Difference?
14. Evaluation of the Oregon Medicaid Proposal
15. Federal and Private Roles in the Development and Provision of Alglucerase Therapy for Gaucher Disease
16. Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property and the Challenge of Technological Change
17. Forest Service Planning: Accommodating Uses, Producing Outputs, and Sustaining Ecosystems
18. Fueling Development: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries
19. Genetic Counseling and Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening: Results of a Survey
20. Genetic Tests and Health Insurance: Results of a Survey
21. Global Standards: Building Blocks for the Future
22. Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment
23. Home Drug Infusion Therapy Under Medicare
24. Identifying and Controlling Pulmonary Toxicants
25. Lessons in Restructuring Defense Industry: The French Experience
26. Managing Industrial Solid Wastes From Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production, and Utility Coal Combustion
27. The Menopause, Hormone Therapy, and Women’s Health
28. Monitoring Limits on Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles
29. NASA’s Office of Space Science and Applications: Process, Priorities and Goals
30. A New Technological Era for American Agriculture
31. Performance Standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program
32. Police Body Armor Standards and Testing, Vol. I
33. Police Body Armor Standards and Testing, Vol. II-Appendixes
34. Remotely Sensed Data From Space: Distribution, Pricing, and Applications
35. Retiring Old Cars: Programs To Save Gasoline and Reduce Emissions
36. Science and Technology Issues in Coastal Ecotourism
37. Special Care Units for People With Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias: Consumer Education, Research, Regulatory, and Reimbursement Issues
38. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security
39. Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions
40. Trade and Environment: Conflicts and Opportunities
41. U.S. Banks and International Telecommunications
42. U.S.-Mexico Trade: Pulling Together or Pulling Apart?

1991

1. The 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference: Issues for U.S. International Spectrum Policy
2. Adjusting to a New Security Environment: The Defense Technology and Industrial Base Challenge
3. Adolescent Health, Vol. I: Summary and Policy Options
4. Adolescent Health, Vol. II: Background and the Effectiveness of Selected Prevention and Treatment Services
5. Adolescent Health, Vol. III: Crosscutting Issues in the Delivery of Health and Related Services
6. Agricultural Commodities as Industrial Raw Materials
7. American Military Power: Future Needs, Future Choices
8. Automated Record Checks for Firearm Purchasers: Issues and Options
9. Biological Rhythms: Implications for the Worker
10. Bioremediation for Marine Oil Spills
11. Biotechnology in a Global Economy
12. Changing by Degrees: Steps To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
13. Competing Economies: America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim
14. Complex Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production
15. Delivering the Goods: Public Works Technologies, Management, and Financing
16. Dioxin Treatment Technologies
17. Energy Efficiency in the Federal Government: Government by Good Example?
18. Energy in Developing Countries
19. Energy Technology Choices: Shaping Our Future
20. Exploring the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation
21. The FBI Fingerprint Identification Automation Program: Issues and Options
22. Federally Funded Research: Decisions for a Decade
23. Global Arms Trade: Commerce in Advanced Military Technology and Weapons
24. HIV in the Health Care Workplace
25. Identifying and Controlling Immunotoxic Substances
26. Improving Automobile Fuel Economy: New Standards, New Approaches
27. Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
28. Medical Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace: Results of a Survey
29. Miniaturization Technologies
30. Moving Ahead: 1991 Surface Transportation Legislation
31. New Opportunities for U.S. Universities in Development Assistance: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environment
32. New Ways: Tiltrotor Aircraft and Magnetically Levitated Vehicles 9132.PDF
33. Outpatient Immunosuppressive Drugs Under Medicare
34. Redesigning Defense: Planning the Transition to the Future U.S. Defense Industrial Base
35. Review of a Protocol for a Study of Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women Vietnam Veterans
36. Rural America at the Crossroads: Networking for the Future
37. Screening Mammography in Primary Care Settings: Implications for Cost Access and Quality
38. Seeking Solutions: High Performance Computing for Science
39. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort
40. U.S. Dairy Industry at a Crossroad: Biotechnology and Policy Choices
41. U.S. Oil Import Vulnerability: The Technical Replacement Capability
42. Verification Technologies: Cooperative Aerial Surveillance in International Agreements
43. Verification Technologies: Managing Research and Development for Cooperative Arms Control Monitoring Measures

1990

1. Access to Space: The Future of U.S. Space Transportation Systems
2. Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives
3. Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer Policies for the 1990s
4. Arming Our Allies: Cooperation and Competition in Defense Technology
5. Beneath the Bottom Line: Agricultural Approaches To Reduce Agrichemical Contamination of Groundwater
6. The Big Picture: HDTV and High-Resolution Systems
7. Children’s Dental Services Under the Medicaid Program
8. Computer Software and Intellectual Property
9. Confused Minds, Burdened Families: Finding Help for People With Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
10. Coping With an Oiled Sea
11. The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women
12. Costs and Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly
13. Critical Connections: Communication for the Future
14. The Effectiveness of Drug Abuse Treatment: Implications for Controlling AIDS/HIV Infection
15. Electronic Bulls and Bears: U.S. Securities Markets and Information Technology
16. Energy Use and the U.S. Economy
17. Evaluating Defense Department Research
18. Finding the Rx for Managing Medical Wastes
19. Forest Service Planning: Setting Strategic Direction Under RPA
20. Genetic Monitoring and Screening in the Workplace
21. Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests
22. Health Care in Rural America
23. Helping America Compete: The Role of Federal Scientific and Technical Information
24. High-Temperature Superconductivity in Perspective
25. Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base-Vol. II, Appendices
26. How Has Federal Research on AIDS/HIV Disease Contributed to Other Fields?
27. Indian Adolescent Mental Health
28. Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing
29. Neural Grafting: Repairing the Brain and Spinal Cord
30. Neurotoxicity: Identifying and Controlling Poisons of the Nervous System
31. Nonferrous Metals: Industry Structure
32. Orbiting Debris: A Space Environmental Problem
33. Physical Vulnerability of Electric Systems to Natural Disasters and Sabotage
34. Plague of Locusts-Special Report
35. Preventive Health Services for Medicare Beneficiaries: Policy and Research Issues
36. Proposal Pressure in the 1980s: An Indicator of Stress on the Federal Research System
37. Rebuilding the Foundations: A Special Report on State and Local Public Works Financing and Management
38. Recombinant Erythropoietin: Payment Options for Medicare
39. Replacing Gasoline: Alternative Fuels for Light-Duty Vehicles
40. Royalty Management Program’s Auditing and Financial System: Technical Issues
41. Trading Around the Clock: Global Securities Markets and Information Technology
42. Unconventional Cancer Treatments
43. The Use of Integrity Tests for Pre-Employment Screening
44. Verification Technologies: Measures for Monitoring Compliance with the START Treaty
45. Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy

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OTA occupied a unique role among the Congressional information agencies. Unlike the General Accounting Office, which is primarily concerned with evaluation of ongoing programs, and the Congressional Research Service, which provides rapid information on legislative topics, OTA provided a deeper, more comprehensive, and more technical level of analysis. Through eleven Congressional sessions, OTA became a key resource for Congressional members and staff confronting technological issues in crafting public policy. Its existence brought a healthy balance to the analytical resources available to the executive and legislative branches of government.

The agency’s legacy is found in the many items of legislation it influenced and in the channels of communication its staff helped foster between legislative policymakers and members of the scientific, technical, and business communities.

The Black Vault has archived here the complete collection of reports and data issued by the OTA. Clicking on any document below will take you directly to the report, all in .pdf format. This collection holds 110,670 pages in total.

1989

1. Adolescent Health Insurance Status: Analyses of Trends in Coverage and Preliminary Estimates of the Effects of an Employer Mandate and Medicaid Expansion on the Uninsured
2. Advanced Vehicle/Highway Systems and Urban Traffic Problems
3. Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund
4. Big Dumb Boosters: A Low-Cost Space Transportation Option?
5. Biological Effects of Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields
6. Catching Our Breath: Next Steps for Reducing Urban Ozone
7. Coming Clean: Superfund Problems Can Be Solved
8. Competition in Coastal Seas: An Evaluation of Foreign Maritime Activities in the 200-Mile EEZ
9. The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions
10. Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law
11. Costs and Effectiveness of Cholesterol Screening in the Elderly
12. Defining “Rural” Areas: Impact on Health Care Policy and Research
13. Electric Power Wheeling and Dealing: Technological Considerations for Increasing Competition
14. Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade
15. Facing America’s Trash: What Next for Municipal Solid Waste?
16. Federal Scientific and Technical Information in an Electronic Age: Opportunities and Challenges
17. Grain Quality in International Trade: A Comparison of Major U.S. Competitors
18. High-Performance Computing and Networking for Science 8918.PDF
19. Higher Education for Science and Engineering
20. Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base
21. Linking for Learning: A New Course for Education
22. New Developments in Biotechnology: Patenting Life-Special Report
23. Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context
24. Partnerships Under Pressure: Managing Commercial Low-Level Radioactive Waste
25. Performance Standards for Secondary School Vocational Education
26. Polar Prospects: A Minerals Treaty for Antarctica
27. Round Trip to Orbit: Human Spaceflight Alternatives
28. Rural Emergency Medical Services
29. Safer Skies with TCAS: Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System-A Special Report
30. Statistical Needs for a Changing U.S. Economy
31. Technologies for Reducing Dioxin in the Manufacture of Bleached Wood Pulp
32. Technology Transfer to the United States: The MIT-Japan Science and Technology Program
33. The Use of Preventive Services by the Elderly

1988

1. Advanced Materials by Design
2. AIDS and Health Insurance: An OTA Survey
3. Are We Cleaning Up? 10 Superfund Case Studies
4. Artificial Insemination: Practice in the United States: Summary of a 1987 Survey
5. Biology, Medicine, and the Bill of Rights
6. Book Preservation Technologies
7. Commercializing High-Temperature Superconductivity
8. Copper: Technology and Competitiveness
9. Criminal Justice, New Technologies, and the Constitution
10. The Defense Technology Base: Introduction and Overview
11. Educating Scientists and Engineers: Grade School to Grad School
12. Electronic Delivery of Public Assistance Benefits: Technology Options and Policy Issues
13. Elementary and Secondary Education for Science and Engineering
14. Enhancing Agriculture in Africa: A Role for U.S. Development Assistance
15. An Evaluation of Options for Managing Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste
16. Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment
17. Grassroots Development: The African Development Foundation
18. Healthy Children: Investing in the Future
19. How Effective Is AIDS Education?
20. The Impact of AIDS on the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (Northern California Region)
21. Infertility: Medical and Social Choices
22. Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age
23. Institutional Protocols for Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatments
24. Issues in Medical Waste Management
25. Launch Options for the Future: A Buyer’s Guide
26. Mapping Our Genes-Genome Projects: How Big? How Fast?
27. Medical Testing and Health Insurance
28. New Developments in Biotechnology: Field-Testing Engineered Organisms: Genetic and Ecological Issues
29. New Developments in Biotechnology: U.S. Investment in Biotechnology
30. Paying the Bill: Manufacturing and America’s Trade Deficit
31. Pesticide Residues in Food: Technologies for Detection
32. Power On! New Tools for Teaching and Learning
33. The Quality of Medical Care: Information for Consumers
34. Reducing Launch Operation Costs: New Technologies and Practices
35. Safe Skies for Tomorrow: Aviation Safety in a Competitive Environment
36. Science, Technology, and the First Amendment
37. Screening for Open-Angle Glaucoma in the Elderly
38. SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software
39. Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties
40. Technology and the American Economic Transition: Choices for the Future
41. Urban Ozone and the Clean Air Act: Problems and Proposals for Change
42. Using Desalination Technologies for Water Treatment

1987

1. Aid to Developing Countries: The Technology/Ecology Fit
2. The Border War on Drugs
3. Commercial Newsgathering From Space
4. Construction and Materials Research and Development for the Nation’s Public Works
5. The Costs of AIDS and Other HIV Infections: Review of the Estimates
6. Defending Secrets, Sharing Data: New Locks and Keys for Electronic Information
7. Do Insects Transmit AIDS?
8. The Electronic Supervisor: New Technology, New Tensions
9. From Pollution to Prevention: A Progress Report on Waste Reduction
10. Hospital Information Systems at the Veterans Administration
11. Identifying and Regulating Carcinogens
12. Integrated Renewable Resource Management for U.S. Insular Areas
13. International Competition in Services: Banking, Building, Software, Know-How
14. Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly
15. Losing a Million Minds: Confronting the Tragedy of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias
16. Marine Minerals: Exploring Our New Ocean Frontier
17. Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness
18. New Developments in Biotechnology: Ownership of Human Tissues and Cells
19. New Developments in Biotechnology: Public Perceptions of Biotechnology
20. New Technology for NATO: Implementing Follow-On Forces Attack
21. Preparing for Science and Engineering Careers: Field Level Profiles
22. Science, Technology, and the Constitution
23. Starpower: The U.S. and the International Quest for Fusion Energy
24. State Educational Testing Practices
25. Technologies for the Preservation of Prehistoric and Historic Landscapes
26. Technologies for Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Preservation
27. Technologies To Maintain Biological Diversity
28. Technology Dependent Children: Hospital Vs. Home Care
29. Technology Transfer to China
30. Trade Adjustment Assistance: New Ideas for an Old Program
31. Trends and Status of Computers in Schools: Use in Chapter 1 Programs and Use With Limited English Proficient Students
32. U.S. Oil Production: The Effect of Low Oil Prices
33. The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry: A Revolution in Progress
34. Wastes in Marine Environments

1986

1. Alternatives to Animal Use in Research, Testing, and Education
2. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1985
3. Assessing Biological Diversity in the United States: Data Considerations
4. Children’s Mental Health: Problems and Services
5. Continuing the Commitment: Agricultural Development in the Sahel
6. Effects of Federal Policies on Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy
7. Electronic Record Systems and Individual Privacy
8. Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight
9. Grassroots Conservation of Biological Diversity in the United States
10. Hearing Impairment and Elderly People
11. Indian Health Care
12. Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information
13. Marine Applications for Fuel Cell Technology
14. Microelectronics Research and Development
15. New Structural Materials Technologies: Opportunities for the Use of Advanced Ceramics and Composites
16. Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse-Midwives: A Policy Analysis
17. Ocean Incineration: Its Role in Managing Hazardous Waste
18. Passive Smoking in the Workplace: Selected Issues
19. Payment for Physician Services: Strategies for Medicare
20. Plant Closing: Advance Notice and Rapid Response
21. Potential Effects of Section 3 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976
22. The Regulatory Environment for Science
23. Research Funding as an Investment: Can We Measure the Returns?
24. A Review of U.S. Competitiveness in Agricultural Trade
25. Scientific Equipment for Undergraduates: Is It Adequate?
26. Serious Reduction of Hazardous Waste: for Pollution Prevention and Industrial Efficiency
27. The Social Security Administration and Information Technology
28. Space Stations and the Law: Selected Legal Issues
29. Supercomputers: Government Plans and Policies
30. Technologies for Detecting Heritable Mutations in Human Beings
31. Technologies for NATO’s Follow-On Forces Attack Concept
32. Technologies for Prehistoric and Historic Preservation
33. Technology and Structural Unemployment: Reemploying Displaced Adults
34. Technology, Public Policy, and the Changing Structure of American Agriculture
35. Technology, Trade, and the U.S. Residential Construction Industry
36. Trade in Services: Exports and Foreign Revenues
37. Transportation of Hazardous Materials
38. Transportation of Hazardous Materials: State and Local Activities
39. Western Surface Mine Permitting and Reclamation

1985

1. Alternative Approaches to Cargo Policy: A Supplement to an Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology
2. Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1984
3. Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures, and Arms Control
4. Automation of America’s Offices, 1985-2000
5. Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies
6. Blood Policy and Technology
7. The Cost Effectiveness of Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Disease
8. Demographic Trends and the Scientific and Engineering Workforce
9. Displaced Homemakers: Programs and Policy
10. The Effectiveness and Costs of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)
11. Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties
12. Energy Technology Transfer to China
13. Information Technology R&D: Critical Trends and Issues
14. Innovative Biological Technologies for Lesser Developed Countries
15. International Cooperation and Competition in Civilian Space Activities
16. Managing the Nation’s Commercial High-Level Radioactive Waste
17. Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration
18. Medicare’s Prospective Payment System: Strategies for Evaluating Cost, Quality, and Medical Technology
19. New Electric Power Technologies: Problems and Prospects for the 1990s
20. Oil and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater
21. Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace
22. R&D in the Maritime Industry: A Supplement to an Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology
23. Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace
24. Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace: Selected Aspects of Reproductive Health Hazards Regulations
25. Review of the Public Health Service’s Response to AIDS
26. Status of Biomedical Research and Related Technology for Tropical Diseases
27. Strategic Materials: Technologies To Reduce U.S. Import Vulnerability
28. Superfund Strategy
29. Technologies for Managing Urinary Incontinence
30. Technologies To Benefit Agriculture and Wildlife
31. Technology and Aging in America
32. Technology, Public Policy, and the Changing Structure of American Agriculture: A Special Report for the 1985 Farm Bill
33. U.S. Natural Gas Availability: Gas Supply Through the Year 2000
34. U.S.-Soviet Cooperation in Space

The post OTA Reports, 1985 – 1989 first appeared on The Black Vault.

OTA occupied a unique role among the Congressional information agencies. Unlike the General Accounting Office, which is primarily concerned with evaluation of ongoing programs, and the Congressional Research Service, which provides rapid information on legislative topics, OTA provided a deeper, more comprehensive, and more technical level of analysis. Through eleven Congressional sessions, OTA became a key resource for Congressional members and staff confronting technological issues in crafting public policy. Its existence brought a healthy balance to the analytical resources available to the executive and legislative branches of government.

The agency’s legacy is found in the many items of legislation it influenced and in the channels of communication its staff helped foster between legislative policymakers and members of the scientific, technical, and business communities.

The Black Vault has archived here the complete collection of reports and data issued by the OTA. Clicking on any document below will take you directly to the report, all in .pdf format. This collection holds 110,670 pages in total.

1979

1. Analysis of Laws Governing Access Across Federal Lands: Options for Access in Alaska
2. Annual Report to the Congress for 1978
3. Benefits of Increased Use of Continuous Casting by the U.S. Steel Industry
4. Computer Technology in Medical Education and Assessment
5. The Direct Use of Coal
6. Drugs in Livestock Feed
7. The Effects of Nuclear War
8. Environmental Contaminants in Food
9. Gasohol
10. Management of Fuel and Nonfuel Minerals in Federal Land
11. Materials and Energy From Municipal Waste
12. Open Shelf-Life Dating of Food
13. OTA Priorities 1979, With Brief Descriptions of Priorities and of Assessments in Progress
14. Pest Management Strategies in Crop Protection
15. Railroad Safety-U.S.-Canadian Comparison
16. Residential Energy Conservation
17. A Review of Selected Federal Vaccine and Immunization Policies, Based on Case Studies of Pneumococcal Vaccine
18. Selected Topics in Federal Health Statistics
19. Technical Options for Conservation of Metals: Case Studies of Selected Metals and Products
20. Technology and East-West Trade
21. Technology Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile Transportation System-Volume II: Technical Report
22. Technology Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile Transportation System-Volume III: Public Participation
23. Technology Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile Transportation System-Volume I: Summary and Findings

1978

1. An Analysis of the ERDA Plan and Program
2. Annual Report to the Congress for 1977
3. Application of Solar Technology to Today’s Energy Needs-Vol. I
4. Application of Solar Technology to Today’s Energy Needs-Vol. II
5. Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977
6. Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical Technologies
7. Emerging Food Marketing Technologies: A Preliminary Analysis
8. Enhanced Oil Recovery Potential in the United States
9. An Evaluation of Railroad Safety
10. Government Involvement in the Innovation Process: A Contractor’s Report to the Office of Technology Assessment
11. The Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise: An Advisory Panel Report to the Office of Technology Assessment
12. Impact of a Department of Education on Federal Science and Technology Activities
13. Nutrition Research Alternatives
14. Policy Implications of the Computed Tomography (CT) Scanner
15. A Preliminary Assessment of the National Crime Information Center and the Computerized Criminal History System
16. Renewable Ocean Energy Sources: Part I-Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
17. The Role of Demonstrations in Federal R&D Policy
18. A Technology Assessment of Coal Slurry Pipelines 

1977

1. Analysis of the Proposed National Energy Plan
2. Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1977
3. Cancer Testing Technology and Saccharin
4. Engineering Implications of Chronic Materials Scarcity
5. Establishing a 200-Mile Fisheries Zone
6. Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards
7. Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards: Appendix Volume II, Part One
8. Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards: Appendix Volume II, Part Two
9. Organizing and Financing Basic Research To Increase Food Production
10. Perspectives on Federal Retail Food Grading
11. Policy Implications of Medical Information Systems
12. A Preliminary Analysis of the IRS Tax Administration System
13. Status Report on the Gas Potential From Devonian Shales of the Appalachian Basin
14. Technology Assessment in Business and Government
15. Transportation of Liquefied Natural Gas

1976

1. Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1976
2. An Assessment of Alternative Economic Stockpiling Policies
3. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 10-Washington, D.C. Case Study
4. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 11-Technical Report
5. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 12-Bibliography
6. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 2-Atlanta Case Study
7. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 3-Boston Case Study
8. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 4-Chicago Case Study
9. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 5-Denver Case Study
10. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 6-Los Angeles Case Study
11. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 7-Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study
12. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 8-San Francisco Case Study
13. Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit: Volume 9-Seattle Case Study
14. An Assessment of Information Systems Capabilities Required To Support U.S. Materials Policy Decisions
15. Automatic Train Control in Rail Rapid Transit
16. Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware
17. Comparative Analysis of the 1976 ERDA Plan and Program
18. Development of Medical Technology: Opportunities for Assessment
19. The Feasibility and Value of Broadband Communications in Rural Areas: A Preliminary Evaluation
20. Food Information Systems
21. Food Information Systems: Summary and Analysis
22. A Review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Research Outlook FY 1976 Through 1980
23. Technology Assessment Activities in the Industrial, Academic, and Governmental Communities 

1975

1. Analysis of the Feasibility of Separating Exploration From Production of Oil and Gas on the Outer Continental Shelf
2. Analysis of the Impacts of the Projected Natural Gas Curtailments for the Winter 1975-76
3. Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1975
4. Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems
5. Automobile Collision Data: An Assessment of Needs and Methods of Acquisition
6. Energy, the Economy, and Mass Transit
7. Financial Viability of Conrail: Review and Analysis
8. Oil Transportation by Tankers: An Analysis of Marine Pollution and Safety Measures
9. A Review of Alternative Approaches to Federal Funding of Rail Rehabilitation
10. A Review of National Railroad Issues

1974

1. Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1974
2. Drug Bioequivalence
3. Requirements for Fulfilling a National Materials Policy

1972

1. The Technology Assessment Act of 1972

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According to their website:

“VUPEN is the leading provider of defensive and offensive cyber security intelligence and advanced vulnerability research. While other companies in the vulnerability intelligence industry mainly act as brokers who buy vulnerabilities from third-party researchers and then sell them to their customers, all VUPEN’s vulnerability intelligence results exclusively from our internal and in-house research efforts conducted by our team of world-class researchers.”

With this news, I filed a FOIA request for ALL current contracts between VUPEN and the NSA.  Below are the responsive documents — many declassified for the first time on this request.

 NSA Contracts with VUPEN, released October 2013 [31 Pages, 6.99MB]

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/nsavupen.pdf

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