The Government Accountability Office has launched the brand new Science, Technology Assessment and Analytics (STAA) workforce, devoted to utilizing innovative analysis strategies to resolve Congress’s issues. The workforce hopes to offer perception and evaluation on how federal companies make use of science and expertise in coping with points akin to regenerative drugs, 5G wi-fi communication, and quantum computing, in keeping with a GAO blog release on the subject.
As the weblog explains, the brand new STAA workforce could have 4 core focuses:
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Technology assessments and technical companies for the Congress,
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Auditing federal science and expertise applications,
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Compiling and using greatest practices within the engineering sciences, together with price, schedule, and expertise readiness evaluation, and
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Establishing an audit innovation lab to discover, pilot, and deploy new superior analytic capabilities, data assurance auditing, and rising applied sciences which might be anticipated to vastly influence auditing practices.
The GAO already does vital work creating expertise assessments guides for federal companies and is closely concerned in assessing cybersecurity expertise infrastructure. With the brand new STAA program, the GAO will increase this operate to raised defend vital infrastructure and cyber privateness.
According to a GAO release, the workforce will “assess the management and coordination of federal research and development efforts” in areas akin to protection, house, power and the setting, nuclear, healthcare, and science and innovation.
GAO’s chief scientist Tim Persons and John Neumann will lead the workforce as managing administrators.
In a video announcing the creation of the team, the U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro mentioned, “As GAO responds to a greater federal focus on science and technology issues, we plan to continue to grow and enhance our expertise in this essential area.”