Carbon Capture: A Technology Assessment, and More from CRS
New or updated reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following.
Carbon Capture: A Technology Assessment, October 21, 2013
Social Security: What Would Happen If the Trust Funds Ran Out?, October 21, 2013
Video Relay Service: Program Funding and Reform, October 22, 2013
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing: Federal Aggravated Identity Theft, October 22, 2013
Hydraulic Fracturing: Selected Legal Issues, October 22, 2013
Federal Financial Reporting: An Overview, October 22, 2013
Fatherhood Initiatives: Connecting Fathers to Their Children, October 22, 2013
Promoting Global Internet Freedom: Policy and Technology, October 22, 2013
The G-20 and International Economic Cooperation: Background and Implications for Congress, October 23, 2013
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues, October 22, 2013
Congress must enact a Digital Public Infrastructure Act, a recognition that the government’s most fundamental responsibility in the digital era is to provide a solid, trustworthy foundation upon which people, businesses, and communities can build.
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.