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Updated: January 13, 2004
Phillip Bond, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology at the U.S. Dept of Commerce, supervises policy development and direction among the Office of Technology Policy (OTP), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). He also serves on the President’s National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), a Cabinet-level council that coordinates science, space, and technology policy within the Federal research and development enterprise.
Tech economy on the rebound, nano revolution coming
Video: According to Phillip Bond, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology at the U.S. Dept of Commerce, the Bush administration's call to send Americans to Mars and establish a permanent human presence on the moon is "one more extension of pushing out the frontiers of knowledge and seeing what we find and seeing how it might apply to other industries." As the tech policy point person for the Bush administration, Bond is at the center of debates about nanotechnology, U.S. IT job losses to offshore workers, investments in science and technology education, space colonization and other issues. In our Face to Face interview, Bond discusses the Bush administration’s science and technology policies with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber.
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