Making good on a promise made

last January at a UC Berkeley pre s s

c o n f e rence, Secre t a ry William M.

Daley hosted another in a series of

regional information technology

town meetings. Bellevue Community

College (BCC) played host to the

August 18, public foru m .

BCC President, Jean Floten gre e t e d

the audience of nearly 300 guests

and introduced several import a n t

keynote speakers including Secre t a ry

D a l e y, Washington Governor Gary

Locke, Senator Patty Murray and

neighboring Congre s s w o m a n

Darlene Hooley from Ore g o n .

P resident Floten proudly announced

that her campus has received a $3

million grant from the National

Science Foundation, and that BCC

has been designated a center of

excellence in advanced technological

education in IT. Secre t a ry Daley hosted local CEOs at an early bre a k f a s t

meeting in BCC’s new Nort h w e s t

Center for Emerging Te c h n o l o g i e s .

S e c re t a ry Daley’s keynote addre s s

included the announcement of a

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new DOC web site hosted by the

O ffice of Technology Policy

( w w w. TA.doc.gov/go4IT) that allows

individuals to do a customized web

s e a rch by geographic location.

Visitors to the new site can look for

training, education, curricula development and job possibilities in this

v i rtual one stop shop. Part n e r s h i p s

that have been formed around the

c o u n t ry to address local IT needs are

p rofiled on the web, and visitors to

the site are invited to fill out a form

to post their own pro g r a m s .

Senator Murray re p o rted that

Washington state continues to be in

g reat economic shape, but she

encouraged partnerships to solve

training and education needs.

M u rray promised to continue her

work to increase the federal budget

for teacher training and technology.

G o v e rnor Locke quoted Peter

D rucker by saying that “knowledge

will replace capital as the most

i m p o rtant source of wealth cre a t i o n

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■ Left to right: Washington Governor, Gary Locke, Commerce Secretary William M. Daley,

Senator Patty Murray and Rep. Darlene Hooley take questions during the press conference.

Deputy Assistant Secre t a ry Kelly H.

C a rnes was invited to participate in

the Boston Technology Summit

hosted by Women in Te c h n o l o g y

I n t e rnational (WITI). Carnes hosted

a roundtable that focused on bringing more women into these high

paying jobs. She was joined on the

panel by corporate executives for a

lively discussion from the packed

audience. As always, a transcript

was made of the luncheon speech

and panel discussion which will be

included in the OTP IT town meeting re p o rt due out early next year.

As OTP continues to host and participate in public forums around the

c o u n t ry, innovative solutions to IT

work force needs will be profiled on

our GO4IT web site.

A highlight of the day was meeting

A m e r i c a ’s first pro g r a m m e r s —

women who worked during Wo r l d

War II—and who were literally

known as “Computers.” These programming pioneers were originally

p a rt of a group of more than 80

women who worked at the

University of Pennsylvania during

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S E ATTLE TOWN

M E E T I N G

in the 21st Century.” The

G o v e rnor pledged his support

to the children in Wa s h i n g t o n

public schools. He wants to be

c e rtain they have the skills to

meet tough new academic

s t a n d a rds. Following the meeting, Governor Locke sent the

state legislature a proposal for

a $25 million high-tech education program that would bring

the public and private sector together to fund information technology

education in Washington State. The

money would go to at least 200

public high

schools and

be available

on a competitive basis

to all of the

s t a t e ’s community colleges, four

year state

colleges and

u n i v e r s i t i e s .

The ambitious proposal seeks

to enhance

the inform ation technology skills of

3,000 high

school students, double the number of techn o l o g y - d e g ree graduates from community colleges, and triple the

number of college graduates with

computer science degrees over four

years. The program is part of the

G o v e rn o r ’s overall education package which seeks to build on successful re f o rms to raise learn i n g

s t a n d a rds, pre p a re students to meet

job market demands, and pro v i d e

o p p o rtunities for life-long learn i n g .

C o n g resswoman Darlene Hooley

told the audience until re c e n t l y

Seattle IT Town Hall Meeting from page 1 O regon was a natural re s o u rc e - b a s e d

state, now half of

O re g o n ’s exports are

high tech. Her state

anticipates 20,000

new jobs by the year

2000 but not

enough experienced

workers to fill them.

Rep. Hooley discussed a joint school

of engineering that

was developed with

help from local

i n d u s t ry.

A number of local

executives discussed

what their companies were doing to

enhance their

work force. 

Bill Baxter of

BSQUARE told how he began a

small company of three, that gre w

to 230 employees over the years by

concentrating on being good to his

employees. Being good includes a

personal touch; the president of the

company hand writes birt h d a y

c a rds to all employees. In the more

traditional sense, they offer stock

options and benefits ranging fro m

f ree video rentals to discounts on

e x e rcise packages. The company

strives to hire the best, and keep

them, by offering a new benefit

roughly every quart e r.

Deetsy Arm s t rong of SAFECO

Corporation talked about her financial services company with 1,200 IT

p rofessionals in Puget Sound. In a

c reative attempt to fill their annual

100 job openings, they targ e t e d

music, journalism and English

majors who want to get into the IT

i n d u s t ry. They were flooded with

applicants for their in-house training

p rogram. They found the fit worked,

and continue to hire from seemingly

u n related fields. Their take is that

people who have

an interest, aptitude and analytical skills can

l e a rn the computer languages.

SAFECO designates money for

education funds

and pays their

employees while

they go to training school.

Bo Wandell of

Safe Harbor discussed how his

company provides technical

s u p p o rt for

c l i e n t ’s pro d u c t s

via the Intern e t .

While some companies outsourc e

technical support

to Bangalore, India, Safe Harbor does

this in Grays Harbor, an economically depressed region in the state. They

get support from state and local gove rnment by providing infrastru c t u re ,

training classes and Internet connections. The program is small, but

g rowing as new trainees graduate

f rom a nine week training course.

Grays Harbor Community College is

investigating starting a two year tech

s u p p o rt d e g ree pro g r a m .

Co-sponsors of the Seattle foru m

included the U.S. Department of

Education, the U.S. Department of

L a b o r, the National Science

Foundation, the Wa s h i n g t o n

S o f t w a re Alliance, the Ore g o n

S o f t w a re Alliance, the American

E l e c t ronics Association, the

University of Washington, and

Bellevue Community College.

OTP will issue a re p o rt at the conclusion of the town meeting series

that will highlight innovative practices and next suggest next steps. ■

■ Deputy Assistant

S e c r e t a ry Kelly

Carnes makes a

point to Barry

Mitzman, a popular

Washington television

host who moderated

the panel discussions

■ Panel moderator Barry Mitzman takes a

question from the audience during a panel

d i s c u s s i o n .
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I N T R O D U C I N G

U S I P

USIP is a new program with an

ambitious goal— to establish a new

working relationship between the

states and the federal govern m e n t

as part of a national innovation system to promote economic gro w t h .

The idea became real in June of

1997 when Commerce Secre t a ry

William M. Daley joined Mary l a n d

G o v e rnor Parris Glendening,

Connecticut Governor John

Rowland (re p resenting the National

G o v e rnors’ Association) and John

Gibbons (who was then the

P re s i d e n t ’s Director of the White

House Science and Te c h n o l o g y

Policy Office OSTP) in signing the

o fficial Memorandum of

U n d e r s t a n d i n g .

To make the USIP goal a re a l i t y, the

p a rtnership employs the following

s t r a t e g i e s :

1 Make federal tools more “state

f r i e n d l y ; ”

2 Achieve public policy objectives

t h rough state/ federal collaboration

3 Pilot state-based economic

development pro j e c t s

4 Assimilate state “best practices”

into federal department and agencies.

Implementing these strategies, USIP

has scored a few important success

s t o r i e s .

The Manufacturing Extension

P rogram (MEP) is a unique statefederal program focused on the

m o d e rnization and competitiveness

of small and medium-sized manuf a c t u rers in communities across the

nation. As part of the incre a s e d

cooperation between the states and

the federal government on science

and technology policy through the

U.S. Innovation Partnership, the

Next Generation MEP Wo r k i n g

G roup was established in

November 1997. Composed of

senior technology advisors and

executives of state technology

development organizations, the

working group provided re c o mmendations for the nation’s governor and the National Institute of

S t a n d a rds and Technology (NIST)

on the future of MEP.

At the 1998 National Govern o r ’s

Association Meeting in Milwaukee,

Wisconsin, USIP insured that technology-based economic development emerged as a key theme. In

both the plenary session and the

meeting of the Committee on

Economic Development and

C o m m e rce, participants discussed

the implications of technology for

economic growth in states. The

c o n f e rence, which also featured an

exhibit of specific technology initiatives from member states, ended

with the nation’s governors committing themselves to furt h e r

s t rengthening the state-federal partnership in this field.

The National Conference of State

L e g i s l a t u res (NCSL) Annual

Meeting in Las Vegas gave USIP a

chance to brief part i c i p a n t s .

P rogram dire c t o r, Pat Flahert y

detailed the objectives and strategy

of USIP and answered questions

f rom state legislators and legislative

The United States Innovative Partnership (USIP) State Federal

Collaboration for Technology-Based Economic Development

s t a ff from around the country.

S t a rting next month, USIP will

jointly sponsor with the Science

and Technology Council of the

States (STCS) a

series of ro u n dtable discussions to addre s s

the issue of

s t a t e - f e d e r a l

p a rtnerships in

the area of techn o l o g y - b a s e d

economic development at the

U . S .

D e p a rtment of

C o m m e rce in Washington, D.C.

The roundtable will focus on a

number of states that have wellestablished and strongly support e d

commitments to technology-based

economic development. The

December meeting and subsequent

meetings, will provide a forum for

these states to discuss their individual successes and upcoming challenges. We also expect they will

discuss their experience with the

federal government in addre s s i n g

the question of how synerg y

between the science and technology-based economic development

and traditional economic development strategy can be enhanced at

the state and federal levels. ■

USIP is a statefederal partnership designed

as part of a

national innovation system to

promote economic ,growth.

■ G a ry Laughlin, Program Committee Chair, ASME Board on Government

Relations and USIP Program Director Pat Flaherty share the dias.
U.S. Secre t a ry of Commerc e

William M. Daley announced a new

C o m m e rce Department website, “go

for IT!,” designed to help build an

American information technology,

or “IT,” work force. The website,

located at www.ta.doc. gov/go4it,

contains the profiles of almost

200 IT partnerships and programs in place across the count ry that address the gro w i n g

demand for information technology

workers in innovative ways.

“The Commerce Depart m e n t ’s new

web page — “go for IT!” —

a d d resses the shortage of inform a4

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NEW WEB

S I T E

tion technology workers,” said

S e c re t a ry Daley. “There are many

innovative programs going on

a round the country to build a hightech work force, but people do not

know about them. Now, for the first

time, everyone can find them in one

place. Teachers can scan to see what

other teachers are doing, workers

can find new training opport u n i t i e s ,

and states can find out about other

state pro g r a m s . ”

“This will be a great boon in term s

of quickly understanding what is

out there,” continued Secre t a ry

Secretary Daley Announces New Internet Resource 

for Training Information Technology Wo r k e r s

D a l e y. “It is a tremendous re s o u rc e

for the entire country. ”

S e c re t a ry Daley made the announcement at the Pacific Nort h w e s t

Regional Forum on Developing a

Competitive Information Te c h n o l o g y

Work Force in Bellevue, WA on

August 18, 1998.

The Commerce Depart m e n t ’s Office of

Technology Policy developed this site

in response to the release of the re p o rt

A m e r i c a ’s New Deficit. The study estimated that over the next decade there

will be demand for 1.3 million new

i n f o rmation technology workers.

The web page, “go for IT!” is a living

document, designed to help people

find information about a bro a d

range of needs. These range fro m

teachers looking for teacher development opportunities and available

educational tools so they can teach

their students IT skills, to companies

looking for model programs they

can replicate to develop a skilled

work force in their local community.

B rowsers can search the database on

this site by either electing to do a

s e a rch using prescribed parameters,

such as keywords, location, pro g r a m

type, and/or sponsor type; or electing to do a full text search usin g

their own keywords or phrases.

These searches can be accessed fro m

the home page directly under

“ e x p l o re IT work force pro g r a m s . ”

OTP is actively seeking bro w s e r

input on ways to improve the site

s t ru c t u re and content so that the

site is effective and user- f r i e n d l y.

B rowsers are encouraged to comment on the site through an interactive form or email.

Those browsers interested in finding

out about the larger issue of the

demand for IT workers, can find

related links on the welcome page.

All browsers are also encouraged to

post their own IT work force programs to the site by filling out an

interactive form on the site. ■

The Go4IT web

site can give you

a customized

web search by

c a t e g o ry and

geographic 

l o c a t i o n .

A perhaps unsung, but long-standing program at our agency is the

U.S. Department of Commerc e

Science and Technology Fellowship

P rogram, commonly re f e rred to as

ComSci Fellows. The program has

been in existence for over 30 years

as a means to

p rovide senior

level federal

g o v e rn m e n t

employees in

the executive

branch with

an opport u n ity to study

national and

i n t e rn a t i o n a l

issues that

relate to the

d e v e l o p m e n t ,

a p p l i c a t i o n ,

and management of science and

t e c h n o l o g y.

The pro g r a m

is sponsore d

by the

S e c re t a ry of Commerce and admini s t e red by the Office of the Under

S e c re t a ry for Te c h n o l o g y. The tenmonth executive development program is a combination of intensive

education and orientation activities

with challenging work assignments.

P rojects are selected to provide participants with policy-making and

p rogram management experiences

at the highest executive and legislative levels.

The ComSci year book is full of personal success stories and testimonials including one who said “The

past year in the ComSci Pro g r a m

has been one of the most re w a rd i n g

years of my professional care e r. I

have been exposed to an array of

new technologies and policies both

in the private sector and the public

s e c t o r.” Another off e red, “I have had

an opportunity to work with indust ry on a variety of telecommunications issues. This has allowed me to

l e a rn directly from the industry

leaders where technology is heading

and how government can help

encourage the bridging of the technology to the business and personal

consumers. This insight could only

have been realized through my

a s s i g n m e n t . ”

Incoming Fellows are as diverse as

their assignments. ■

The ComSci Fellow Program

■ Pictured are this year’s ComSci Fellows and

their new assignments. From left to right:

Kyle Norosky, Department of Energy’s Fusion

Energy Services; Duncan McBride, National

Institute of Standards and Technology; Monique

Ceruti, The Architect of the Capitol; Jean Barile

National Science Foundation; Bruce Ware NASA;

Jasemine Chambers, the White House Office of

Science and Technology Policy OSTP; Gayle

Thornton, EPA and Diane Lynne, The State

D e p a r t m e n t .

For more information on becoming a ComSci fellow contact Cynthia Lynn at: (202) 482-6103 or

c l y n n 1 @ t a . d o c . g o v.
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YALE HOSTS

R E P O RT RELEASE

The first comprehensive assessment

of the environmental industry was

recently published by the Office of

Technology Policy as a part of its

series of industry sectoral pro f i l e s .

The new re p o rt, “Meeting the

Challenge: The Enviro n m e n t a l

I n d u s t ry,” was publicly released as

the backdrop for a panel discussion

of the industry at the Yale School of

F o re s t ry and Enviro n m e n t a l

Management on October 22, 1998.

P a rticipants in the panel discussion

i n c l u d e d :

■ Eric Biel

Acting Director of Policy and

Strategic Planning, U.S. Depart m e n t

of Commerc e

■ Steven W. Perc y

CEO, BP America

■ R. Darryl Banks

F o rmer Senior Fellow, Wo r l d

R e s o u rces Institute

■ Don Deieso

CEO and President, EA Engineering,

Science and Te c h n o l o g y, Inc., CoChair of CEO Coalition to Advance

Sustainable Technology (CAST)

■ C h e ryl W. Grise

Senior VP and General Counsel,

N o rtheast Utilities

M o d e r a t o r : Marian Chert o w,

D i re c t o r, Industrial Enviro n m e n t a l

Management Program, Yale School of

F o re s t ry and Environmental Studies

The re p o rt provides a thoro u g h

analysis of the stru c t u re of the indust ry, its competitive strengths and the

challenges it faces as it moves into

the next century. It attempts to capt u re the views of the industry conc e rning its future and has been

endorsed by a wide spectrum of

i n d u s t ry re p resentative groups. It

reflects strong industry concern that

new approaches to enviro n m e n t a l

regulation are needed to ensure continued improvement in enviro n m e ntal quality and improved markets for

the industry ’s products and services. ■

Office of Technology Policy Environmental Report Released at Ya l e

From top to bottom:

■ Enlarged cover of the Environmental

Report is used to welcome visitors to 55

Hillhouse Avenue, site of the panel discussion and press conference.

■ Press briefing: left to right Marian Chertow,

D i r e c t o r, Industrial Environmental

Management Program, David Berg, report

a u t h o r, Eric Biel, DOC Director of Policy,

Grant Ferrier, report author (standing).

■ Marian Chertow and Eric Biel enjoy a

laugh with the audience prior to the panel

discussion. Also seated at the table;

Steven Percy; Cheryl Grise; R. Darry l

Banks; Don Deieso. 

■ D a r ryl Banks makes a point during an

i n t e rview with a reporter from the Yale campus newspaper, The Advocate.

The environmental industry seeks

new approaches

to government

regulation to

ensure environmental quality

and improved

m a r k e t s .
■ P r o g r a m m e r s

Jean Jennings Bartik,

Frances Snyder

Holberton, DAS Kelly

Carnes, Kathleen

McNulty Mauchly

Antonelli, and (seated) Marlyn We s c o f f

M e l t z e r.

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WOMEN IN

INNOVATION

National Medal of Te c h n o l o g y

“As this issue goes to press, we are awaiting

final confirmation by the White House of the

1998 National Medal of Technology re c i p i e n t s .

The January issue of “Pacesetter” will include

full details on the recipients, their backg rounds and contributions, as well as an

o v e rview of the ‘98 award cere m o n i e s . ” n

the war, and were given the name

“Computers” by the Army because

their job was to compute (by hand)

ballistics trajectories involving complex diff e rential equations for cannon

firing tables. In 1945 the Arm y

a g reed to fund an experimental project which became the first all-elect ronic digital computer called the

E l e c t ronic numerical Integrator and

Computer (ENIAC). This 1946 computer took up an entire room and

OTP Goes to Boston from page 1

was the precursor to the model that

is sitting on your desk or in your

briefcase today. The Army chose six

of these “Computers” to be the

E N I A C ’s first programmers; a classified machine to which they were initially denied access. Four of the

P rogrammers were photographed

with Kelly at the WITI dinner. ■

Among the reports in the

pipeline for early 1999

release: 

Innovation & Te c h n o l o g y

Policy in the People’s

Republic of China; and

the report from the IT

regional town meetings

hosted and attended by

OTP in 1998. n

Upcoming OTP

R e p o r t s

A highlight of the

day was meeting

A m e r i c a ’s first

p r o g r a m m e r s —

women who

worked during

World War II—

and who were literally known as

“ C o m p u t e r s . ”

These programming pioneers

worked on the

now famous

ENIAC computer.
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INNOVATOR’S

REPORT

New OTP Reports

The Office of Technology Policy

(OTP), has two new publications

available—one on innovation and

the second on a new part n e r s h i p

model. The first, “The New

Innovators: Global Patenting Tre n d s

in Five Sectors” is a companion

piece to a new re p o rt released by

the Council on Competitiveness.

OTP joined the Council at both the

White House, and again at the

Senate Science and Te c h n o l o g y

Caucus to unveil these companion

documents on innovation. The OTP

I n n o v a t o r s re p o rt analyzes the competitiveness of the re s e a rch enterprises in the United States, the

E u ropean Union as a group and 14

other countries. The re p o rt concludes the United States has a clear

technological edge in each of the

sectors examined—health, advanced

materials, automotive, inform a t i o n

t e c h n o l o g y, and express package

t r a n s p o rtation and logistics—an

advantage not likely to be severe l y

challenged in the near future .

H o w e v e r, the re p o rt also points to a

quickening of technology cycles

times and greater linkages to leading-edge re s e a rc h — t rends that may

t e c h n o l o g y, can we shape policies

and programs that foster American

innovation and competitiveness.”

The second re p o rt “The Fraunhofer

Society: A Unique German Contract

R e s e a rch Organization Comes to

America,” describes a mechanism of

i n d u s t ry, university and govern m e n t

technology collaboration which has

played an important role in

G e rm a n y, and is now establishing a

p resence in the United States. This

re p o rt, the first of two, describes

what the Fraunhofer model is. The

second re p o rt due out in late 1999

will examine how the American version of the Fraunhofer model has

been working as established in this

c o u n t ry. Fraunhofers are designed to

help industry gain rapid access to

innovation and to acquire new technologies through long-term re s e a rc h .

Both OTP re p o rts are free and available by calling our publications

request line at: 202-482-3037 or on

the web at www. t a . d o c . g o v / re p o rt s .

The Council on Competitiveness

re p o rt is available for a fee and

may be obtained by calling

(202) 682-4292. ■

enable countries to leapfrog generations of technologies within a brief

span of time. An example that may

be surprising to some, is that over

the past decade, the Republic of

K o rea and Taiwan have overt a k e n

the United Kingdom and Germ a n y

in the number of information technology patents granted in the

United States.

The Council’s “Going Global: The

New Shape of American

Innovation” re p o rts on the same five

sectors and outlines conditions that

a re necessary to achieve the big

innovation payoff of economic

g rowth and higher-wage jobs.

“ U l t i m a t e l y, there are two clear messages to be drawn from our re p o rt , ”

said Gary Bachula, Acting Under

S e c re t a ry for Te c h n o l o g y. “First a

s t rong, sustained and balanced

national commitment to investment

in science and technology is essential

to maintaining a healthy, vibrant and

globally competitive American econo m y. And second, there is no ‘one

size fits all’ approach to technology

p o l i c y. Only by understanding the

unique circumstances affecting each

■ Left Photo: Acting Under Secretary Gary R. Bachula and President Clinton’s Science Advisor, Neal Lane chat in the White House Indian

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■ Middle Photo: Gary Bachula holds up a copy of OTP’s New Innovators report to emphasize a point. Seated next to him (right to left) Fran

Narin, President of CHI Research, Inc. and John Yochelson, President of the Council on Competitiveness.

■ Right Photo: Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) talks about innovation. Also on the dais (right to left) Maurice Holmes, Corporate Vice President

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■ D i rectors of the Office of Technology Policy 

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Something to Talk About!

In the Next PA C E S E T T E R

■ P rofiles on the this year winners of the

National Medal of Te c h n o l o g y

■ New grant winners from The Experimental

P rogram to Stimulate Competitive Te c h n o l o g y

(EPSCoT) announced

■ The Daimler-Benz and Chrysler merger is

now a re a l i t y. The impact for the Part n e r s h i p

for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) will

be discussed.

■ Pictured on cover is the front of the North West Center for

Emerging Technologies on the BCC Campus visited by

S e c r e t a ry Daley during a recent trip to Seattle.