Some recently updated reports from the Congressional Research Service now available on the Federation of American Scientists web site include the following (all pdf).
“Stem Cell Research: Federal Research Funding and Oversight,” updated April 18, 2007.
“Israeli-Arab Negotiations: Background, Conflicts, and U.S. Policy,” updated April 10, 2007.
“Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,” updated April 4, 2007.
“U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues,” updated April 3, 2007.
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.