Currently, thirteen technical committees, which meet at the semiannual conferences, provide the focus for members' technical interests. The technical committees play an important role in arranging technical sessions for the meetings, promoting new developments in their respective fields, representing the Society in joint sponsorship of meetings with other organizations, and assuming responsibility for their particular coverage of subject matter in publications of the Society.
Committees also promote improved educational facilities for the study of acoustics.
The technical committees host open meetings at each conference, and all members of the Society are encouraged to maintain close contact with the committees in their fields of interest.