Congress's three-year-old Office Technology Assessment (OTA) has come under sharp, and potentially damaging, criticism from another Congressional committee and from the former chairman of its own advisory council. Both have argued that it has failed to live up to expectations and that there is still no clear understanding of its role and function. Colin Norman reports from Washington.
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Norman, C. USA: Assessing the OTA. Nature 262, 88–89 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262088a0
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