Office of Science and Technology Policy

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is a department of the United States government, part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), established by United States Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.

Office of Science and Technology Policy
Agency overview
FormedMay 11, 1976 (1976-05-11)
Preceding agency
  • Office of Science and Technology
HeadquartersEisenhower Executive Office Building
725 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Employees45
Agency executives
Parent agencyExecutive Office of the President
WebsiteWhiteHouse.gov/OSTP

The director of this office is colloquially known as the President's Science Advisor. In January 2019, meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier was confirmed to the position,[1] after almost two years of the position being vacant.[2]

History
President Ford signing H.R. 10230, establishing the Office of Science and Technology Policy

President Richard M. Nixon eliminated the President's Science Advisory Committee after his second Science Advisor, Edward E. David Jr., resigned in 1973, rather than appointing a replacement. The United States Congress then established the OSTP in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President and others within the Executive Office of the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. The 1976 Act also authorizes OSTP to lead inter-agency efforts to develop and to implement sound science and technology policies and budgets and to work with the private sector, state and local governments, the science and higher education communities, and other nations toward this end.

Under President Donald Trump, OSTP's staff dropped from 135 to 45 people.[3] The OSTP director position remained vacant for over two years, the longest vacancy for the position since the office's founding.[4][5][1] Kelvin Droegemeier, an atmospheric scientist who previously served as the vice president of research at the University of Oklahoma, was nominated for the position on August 1, 2018[6] and confirmed by the Senate on January 2, 2019. Michael Kratsios was nominated by President Trump to be the fourth Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Associate Director of OSTP in March 2019[7] and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2019.[8]

Public facing key staff

Key positions vary among administrations and are not always published online. [9]

Directors

[13]

No.PortraitNamePresidentTerm
1 H. Guyford Stever Gerald Ford1976–1977
2 Frank PressJimmy Carter1977–1981
Benjamin Huberman (acting)Ronald Reagan1981
3 George A. Keyworth, II1981–1985
John P. McTague (acting)1986
Richard G. Johnson (acting)1986
4 William Robert Graham1986–1989
Thomas P. Rona (acting)1989
William G. Wells (acting)George H. W. Bush1989
5 D. Allan Bromley1989–1993
6 John H. GibbonsBill Clinton1993–1998
Kerri-Ann Jones (acting)1998
7 Neal F. Lane1998–2001
Rosina Bierbaum (acting)George W. Bush2001
Clifford Gabriel (acting)2001
8 John H. Marburger III2001–2009
9 John HoldrenBarack Obama2009–2017
10 Kelvin DroegemeierDonald Trump2019–present
gollark: Look, I know there's a bunch of people talking about fish habitat destruction and stuff, but they do exist *now*.
gollark: people is already a plural. "Peoples" is bees.
gollark: Those who disagree with vegetarianism will have combat geckoes launched against them.
gollark: So why do you DISAGREE with VEGETARIANISM?
gollark: (or maybe I'm only ironically a vegetarian and instead I eat fungi)

See also

References
  1. Reardon, Sara; Witze, Alexandra (31 July 2018). "The wait is over: Trump taps meteorologist as White House science adviser". Nature. 560 (7717): 150–151. Bibcode:2018Natur.560..150R. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05862-y. PMID 30087470.
  2. Lapowsky, Issie (January 20, 2018). "The lasting impacts of Trump's first year". Wired.
  3. Alemany, Jacqueline (November 21, 2017). "Donald Trump's science office is a ghost town". CBS.
  4. Morello, Lauren (24 October 2017). "Wait for Trump's science adviser breaks modern-era record". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2017.22878.
  5. Aldhouse, Peter (January 18, 2017). "Trump's war on science isn't what you think". CBS.
  6. Irfan, Umair (August 1, 2018). "Trump finally picked a science adviser. He's a meteorologist. Named Kelvin". Vox.
  7. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to a Key Administration Post". The White House. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
  8. Chappellet-Lanier, Tajha (August 1, 2019). "Michael Kratsios confirmed as US CTO". Fedscoop. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
  9. "Staff". The White House.
  10. Musil, Steven. "Trump plans to nominate Michael Kratsios as US CTO". CNET.
  11. Mervis, Jeffrey (11 July 2017). "Trump's White House science office still small and waiting for leadership". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aan7084.
  12. "Michael Kratsios". The White House.
  13. "Previous Science Advisors (1973–2009)". White House – via National Archives and Records Administration.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.