The Government Accountability Office has launched the brand new Science, Technology Assessment and Analytics (STAA) group, devoted to utilizing leading edge analysis strategies to unravel Congress’s issues. The group hopes to offer perception and evaluation on how federal companies make use of science and know-how in coping with points corresponding to regenerative medication, 5G wi-fi communication, and quantum computing, in line with a GAO blog release on the subject.
As the weblog explains, the brand new STAA group may have 4 core focuses:
-
Technology assessments and technical providers for the Congress,
-
Auditing federal science and know-how packages,
-
Compiling and using finest practices within the engineering sciences, together with price, schedule, and know-how readiness evaluation, and
-
Establishing an audit innovation lab to discover, pilot, and deploy new superior analytic capabilities, data assurance auditing, and rising applied sciences which are anticipated to tremendously impression auditing practices.
The GAO already does important work growing know-how assessments guides for federal companies and is closely concerned in assessing cybersecurity know-how infrastructure. With the brand new STAA program, the GAO will increase this operate to higher defend essential infrastructure and cyber privateness.
According to a GAO release, the group will “assess the management and coordination of federal research and development efforts” in areas corresponding to protection, area, vitality and the surroundings, nuclear, healthcare, and science and innovation.
GAO’s chief scientist Tim Persons and John Neumann will lead the group 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.”