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It's from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) [0]. The audience for OSTP is cross-Federal, and the contributing agency scope for this site is wide. The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) [1] used to do this kind of technology policy work too. OTA served US Congress, is no more, and may or may not be worthing bringing back [2].

Personally, I like seeing deep (no pun intended) technology expertise at work in US government. The Michael Lewis book "The Fifth Risk" was hagiographic that way.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen... [2] https://www.brookings.edu/research/it-is-time-to-restore-the...



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