Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Overview of Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection Activities and Recent Developments, April 1, 2014
Reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts: A Brief Overview, March 31, 2014
The Debate Over Selected Presidential Assistants and Advisors: Appointment, Accountability, and Congressional Oversight, March 31, 2014
Unlawfully Present Aliens, Higher Education, In-State Tuition, and Financial Aid: Legal Analysis, March 28, 2014
Unlawfully Present Aliens, Driver’s Licenses, and Other State-Issued ID: Select Legal Issues, March 28, 2014
Regulation of Clinical Tests: In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Devices, Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs), and Genetic Tests, March 27, 2014
EPA and the Army Corps’ Proposed Rule to Define “Waters of the United States”, March 27, 2014
The Volcker Rule: A Legal Analysis, March 27, 2014
Foreign Assistance to North Korea, April 2, 2014
The current lack of public trust in AI risks inhibiting innovation and adoption of AI systems, meaning new methods will not be discovered and new benefits won’t be felt. A failure to uphold high standards in the technology we deploy will also place our nation at a strategic disadvantage compared to our competitors.
Using the NIST as an example, the Radiation Physics Building (still without the funding to complete its renovation) is crucial to national security and the medical community. If it were to go down (or away), every medical device in the United States that uses radiation would be decertified within 6 months, creating a significant single point of failure that cannot be quickly mitigated.
The federal government can support more proactive, efficient, and cost-effective resiliency planning by certifying predictive models to validate and publicly indicate their quality.
We need a new agency that specializes in uncovering funding opportunities that were overlooked elsewhere. Judging from the history of scientific breakthroughs, the benefits could be quite substantial.