White House Issues a “National” Science & Tech Agenda September 3, 2019
A new White House budget memo presents science and technology as a distinctly American-led enterprise in which U.S. dominance is to be maintained and reinforced.
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Navy Torpedoes Scientific Advisory Group April 5, 2019
This week the U.S. Navy abruptly terminated its own scientific advisory group, depriving the service of a source of internal critique and evaluation. The Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) was…
Read moreA Profile of Defense Science & Tech Spending February 22, 2018
Annual spending on defense science and technology has “grown substantially” over the past four decades from $2.3 billion in FY1978 to $13.4 billion in FY2018 or by nearly 90% in…
Read moreUS-China Scientific Cooperation “Mutually Beneficial” June 27, 2017
The US and China have successfully carried out a wide range of cooperative science and technology projects in recent years, the State Department told Congress last year in…
Read moreScience & Technology Issues Facing Congress, & More from CRS March 17, 2017
Science and technology policy issues that may soon come before Congress were surveyed in a new report from the Congressional Research Service. Overarching issues include the impact…
Read moreUnder Pressure: Long Duration Undersea Research February 2, 2017
“The Office of Naval Research is conducting groundbreaking research into the dangers of working for prolonged periods of time in extreme high and low pressure environments.” Why? In part, it…
Read morePatents Granted to Two Formerly Secret Inventions November 10, 2016
Two patent applications that had been subject to “secrecy orders” under the Invention Secrecy Act for years or decades were finally granted patents and publicly disclosed in 2016. “Only two…
Read moreInvention Secrecy Increased in 2016 October 31, 2016
There were 5,680 invention secrecy orders in effect at the end of Fiscal Year 2016. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reported that 121 new secrecy orders…
Read moreAutonomous Military Technology at a “Tipping Point” August 30, 2016
Autonomous military technologies that are capable of independently selecting a course of action to achieve a goal are maturing rapidly, the Defense Science Board said in a…
Read morePatents Awarded to Formerly Secret Inventions November 13, 2015
Last year, 95 secrecy orders barring disclosure of inventions under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 were imposed on new patent applications while 36 prior secrecy orders were…
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