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Committee on the Budget 

 Committee on Government Operations 

 Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 

 Committee on International Relations 

 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries 



Subcommittee on Oceanography 

 Committee on Science and Technology 



AD HOC COMMITTEES 



Ad Hoc Committee on Energy 



Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf 



Advisory services on science and technology matters, including 

 those of an international nature, are provided by a variety of institu- 

 tional arrangements. These include staff assistants to individual Mem- 

 bers of Congress; staffs of Congressional Committees; the National 

 Security and International Affairs Section of the Congressional 

 Budget Office; the Science Policy Research, Environment and Natural 

 Resources, and Foreign Affaire and National Defense Divisions of the 

 Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress; the Office 

 of Technology Assessment; the International Division of the General 

 Accounting Office; and the Commission on International Relations 

 of the National Academy of Sciences. 



Discussion of the Problem 



1. Purpose of the Study 



This study is intended to provide Congress with background mate- 

 rial useful in strengthening the resources that support the conduct of 

 American diplomacy. The plan of the study is to describe and analyze 

 the formulation and administration of American diplomatic policies 

 having significant science and technology components. Specifically, 

 the study examines a selected set of particular developments and events 

 in recent diplomatic history in order to : 

 — Characterize processes and problems involving the interaction of 



science and technology with diplomacy ; 

 — Define organizational requirements for the effective formulation 

 of important policies to direct and control activities involving 

 this interaction; 

 — Identify ways in which the capabilities of agencies serving at this 

 interface can be strengthened legislatively or administratively; 

 and more generally, to 

 — Discover ways in which science and technology can better support 



foreign policy objectives of the United States ; and 

 — Discover ways in which the conduct of diplomatic activities can 

 better support the healthy growth of national and international 

 science and technology. 



