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II. Fields of congressional concern in science policy decisions 480 



Political identification of incompatibilities of man with his 



environment 480 



Determination of political goals and their relative priorities, in 



improving the compatibility of man with his environment 480 



The forecasting of technology 480 



Establishment of technological goals and priorities 480 



Establishment of related basic and supporting research goals and 



priorities 481 



Applied technological system building 48 1 



Technological assessment 481 



Technological control 481 



Technological transfer 481 



Management of technological obsolescence 482 



' ■"' •" Science policy factors relevant to cases studied 483 



III. The technical information function in political decisionmaking: 



The cases summarized 484 



Case 1: The AD-X2 battery additive 484 



Case 2 : The point IV program 485 



Case: Inclusion of the social sciences in the National Science 



Foundation (1946). .._ 486 



Case 4: Project Camelot 488 



Case 5: Mohole 489 



Case 6: The Test Ban Treaty 491 



Case 7: The Peace Corps - 492 



Case 8: High energy physics 493 



Case 9: The Office of Coal Research 495 



Case 10: The Salk vaccine 497 



Case 11: Water Pollution Control Act, 1948 499 



Case 12: Thahdomide 500 



Case 13: Federal pesticide control, 1947 502 



Case 14: Criteria for water projects 504 



TV. Some elements of technical information for political decisionmaking. _ 506 



Priority of a technical issue embedded in a political issue 506 



Some obstacles to the receiving by Congress of technical information. . 507 



Hypotheses 507 



Sensationalism 507 



Outstanding personalities as witnesses 508 



A list of "near impossibihties" 508 



Technical differences of opinion 509 



Administration versus Congress 509 



V. Technical information-gathering methodologies useful for the Con- 

 gress 510 



Congressional information sources on technical issues 511 



Congressional requirements for technical information 513 



Ways to secure information pertinent to the issue 513 



Assuring authoritative, accurate, objective, technically sound 



information 514 



Authoritative 514 



Accurate 514 



Objective . 514 



Technically sound ._ — _ 515 



Arrangements to assure completeness of technical information 515 



Staflf functions 516 



Classes of witnesses 517 



Modes of information gathering 518 



Data analysis 518 



Iterative nature of the process 519 



Achievement of maturity and full development of structured informa- 

 tion 519 



Organization of a system to achieve and maintain technical perspec- 

 tive 519 



