A bill entitled the "Frontier Technologies Assessment Act."
Frontier Technologies Assessment Act - Directs the President to appoint within 60 days a Task Force on Frontier Technologies. Directs such task force to prepare within one year a report for Congress: (1) summarizing all government programs in technologically-mature economies designed to accelerate the pace of technological research and development; (2) evaluate such programs; (3) evaluate foreign programs; and (4) evaluate specific frontier technologies which could form the basis for substantial commercial product lines in the 1990's.
Requires the report also to contain a compilation of Federal and private projects in areas which are the subject of foreign government projects.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.
Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space. Hearings held.
Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-259.
checking server…
Ask anything about this bill. The AI reads the full text to answer.
Enter to send · Shift+Enter for new line