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White House Office Of Science And Technology Helps To Coordinate Demining Activities, Colleen Pettit
White House Office Of Science And Technology Helps To Coordinate Demining Activities, Colleen Pettit
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is a member of the Interagency Working Group on Humanitarian Demining. As an overseer of this group of government and non-government agencies involved in demining, the OSTP helps to ensure that U.S. humanitarian demining research and development activities coordinate with relevant activities of the U.S. government and other demining organizations. OSTP additionally aids the execution of the Presidential policy to develop improved mine detection and clearing technology and to share the technology with the international humanitarian demining community. In both these roles, the OSTP works closely with the Department of …