Short answer: Yes.
Long answer:
The description for Damping says it can shut down (temporarily disable) enemy tech and biotic abilities. It also says that it increases enemy tech and biotic cooldowns.
For a long time, I was under the impression that Damping did not actually disable enemy tech or biotics, but only increased the cooldown after they were used. I got this impression after using Damping on enemies. only to have them use their tech or biotic abilities moments later. This occurred on a few playthroughs. I finally decided to use it in a fairly controlled setting to see if it actually did disable enemy tech and biotic abilities as advertised.
Video montage of my experiments:
From what I can tell, Damping does disable enemy tech and biotic abilities, but only for a few seconds. However, the more you use it on an enemy, the longer the enemy's biotic or tech attacks are disabled.
It took me a while to figure it out, but in the video, you eventually see that after damping some biotic enemies, they attack me with their biotics a few seconds later before my Damping is off cooldown. But after a second Damping, I can keep their biotics on cooldown almost indefinitely as my Damping cools down before their cooldowns are finished.
Final thoughts: I still think Damping is a waste of time. It's passive bonus -- increased radius for Sabotage, Overload, and Damping -- is a little more useful than Damping itself. Its initial duration is too short to be useful in my opinion, and that is with a lot of cooldown bonuses. i usually run Kaidan and Liara most of the game, and I can disable a lot of enemies with their biotics instead, and their biotics are generally more reliable.
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