Some recent reports of the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following:
“Renditions: Constraints Imposed by Laws on Torture” (pdf), updated April 5, 2006.
“Treatment of ‘Battlefield Detainees’ in the War on Terrorism” (pdf), updated March 27, 2006.
“Polygraph Use by the Department of Energy: Issues for Congress” (pdf), updated April 7, 2006.
“Oversight of Dual-Use Biological Research: The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity” (pdf), March 28, 2006.
“Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program” (pdf), updated March 9, 2006.
If carbon markets are going to play a meaningful role — whether as engines of transition finance, as instruments of accurate pricing across heterogeneous climate interventions, or both — they need the infrastructure and standards that any serious market requires.
Good information sources, like collections, must be available and maintained if companies are going to successfully implement the vision of AI for science expressed by their marketing and executives.
Let’s see what rules we can rewrite and beliefs we can reset: a few digital service sacred cows are long overdue to be put out to pasture.
Nestled in the cuts and investments of interest to the S&T community is a more complex story of how the administration is approaching the practice of science diplomacy.