Cybersecurity and Information Sharing, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Cybersecurity and Information Sharing: Comparison of H.R. 1560 and H.R. 1731, April 20, 2015
FY2016 Appropriations for the Department of Justice (DOJ), April 15, 2015
Domestic Human Trafficking Legislation in the 114th Congress, April 16, 2015
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA): Frequently Asked Questions, April 20, 2015
Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies, April 20, 2015
FEMA’s Public Assistance Grant Program: Background and Considerations for Congress, April 16, 2015
Cuba: Issues for the 114th Congress, April 17, 2015
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.
The cost of inaction is not merely economic; it is measured in preventable illness, deaths and diminished livelihoods.