A new U.S. Navy instruction offers a “guide to the operation and administration of detention facilities.”
Detention means “the temporary holding of persons in custody in a detention facility pending a decision to officially charge them with a criminal offense. Detention is distinctly different from confinement that includes pretrial or post-trial confinement.”
See “Guide for the Operation and Administration of Detention Facilities” (pdf), OPNAV Instruction 1640.9A, December 11, 2006.
Another new Navy instruction concerns information assurance. See “Navy Implementation of Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)” (pdf), OPNAV Instruction 5239.3, November 27, 2006.
To increase the real and perceived benefit of research funding, funding agencies should develop challenge goals for their extramural research programs focused on the impact portion of their mission.
Without trusted mechanisms to ensure privacy while enabling secure data access, essential R&D stalls, educational innovation stalls, and U.S. global competitiveness suffers.
Satellite imagery has long served as a tool for observing on-the-ground activity worldwide, and offers especially valuable insights into the operation, development, and physical features related to nuclear technology.
This year’s Red Sky Summit was an opportunity to further consider what the role of fire tech can and should be – and how public policy can support its development, scaling, and application.