The U.S. Government Established entities, Such as the CIAs Office of Scientific Intelligence from the 40’s and the Office of Special Assistant and Science Adviser to address the intersection of security and science. Yet after its founding, this original Science Advisers Office at the Department of State quickly lost its prominence, only regaining it when S&T reclaimed its national security standing as an important Cold War issue in 1957 in response to Sputnik. The Office of Special Assistant to the State Secretary and Science Adviser became a bureau with the name of Office of International Scientific and Technological Affairs, in 1965.

Based on Andrew Reynolds, the former deputy technology and science advisor to the secretary of state who affirmed the first 3 consultants, Science and engineering had become sub-par from the 1990 s, with overly many people with engineering and scientific disciplines to genuinely comprehend and inform international relations, foreign policy, and development policy should be carried forward.6 – With the suggestions of the 1999 NRC report, Secretary Albright setup a task force to study the matter, resulting in a 2000 policy announcement titled Science and Diplomacy: Strengthening State for the 21st Century. This announcement suggested that the secretary of state will appoint a science and technology advisor, as approved by Senate Law 886: Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001.7 Four advisers have served thus far: Norman Neureiter, George Atkinson, Nina Fedoroff, and William Colglazier.8 – The secretaries 9 Pretty advisor position is nonpolitical, and every advisor serves a fixed 3 year term.

The secretaries 9 Pretty adviser position is nonpolitical, and each director has a fixed three year term. STAS is bureaucratically under an under secretary of states for the first 3 consultants, this was the under secretary for global affairs, for the 4th, it was the under secretary for financial growth, energy, and environment. The advisor has direct access to the secretary of state along with other senior officials inside the department. Nevertheless, in Neureiters words, You do not make policy in an institution like this by whispering from the secretarys ear.9 Rather, the science and engineering advisers interactions have a tendency to take place together with officials in the branches various bureaus. STAS is affirmed by some small staff, which allows for strategic mobility to deal with a wide range of needs from the division without the burden of day-to day policy responsibilities. STAS complements OES, which holds responsibility for S&Trelated foreign policy issues such as climate change, the Arctic, oceans, infectious diseases, space, and official bilateral S&T cooperation. The Advisers – Norman Neureiter, 10 the first science and technology advisor to the secretary of state, came into the position together with experience in both diplomacy and science.