The Committee on Industry, Technology, and Science records include committee correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, and reports. The committee was charged with studying the relationships among technology, industry, and larger society to develop activities to enhance the role of industrial technology in the promotion of human welfare.

The Committee on Science in the Promotion of Human Welfare records include correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, proceedings, reports, and publicationst that explore the role that AAAS might take in addressing social controversies involving science and technology.

The Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy records include Congressional testimony, planning documents, correspondence, and committee meeting minutes examining public policy process and its impact on science, as well as educating scientists about this relationship.

The R&D Budget and Policy Project records include material such as annual reports on funds for science within the federal budget.

The Regional Science Centers program records include correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, notes, reports, and publications on regional science centers founded to improve the uses of science in resolving societal problems.

The Science and Human Rights program records contain material on action taken on behalf of 3,000 scientists, engineers, and health professionals in over 70 countries who have been detained, persecuted, imprisoned and/or tortured. The program conducts its actions through letters, petitions, and fact-finding missions. The program has supported use of forensic science in Argentina, Guatemala, and Haiti, as well as the use of statistical applications to document human rights abuses in South Africa and Kosovo.

The Scientific Freedom and Responsibility program records document the work by committee and staff on a variety of issues, such as secrecy, misconduct, and privacy concerns surrounding access to and use of scientific data.