New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service this week include the following.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau’s State Visit, March 2016, CRS Insight, March 7, 2016
Overview of FY2017 Appropriations for Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), March 7, 2016
First-Term Members of the House of Representatives and Senate, 64th-114th Congresses, March 7, 2016
The Precision Medicine Initiative, CRS Insight, March 8, 2016
Cybersecurity: Critical Infrastructure Authoritative Reports and Resources, March 8, 2016
The Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Leak: State and Federal Response and Oversight, CRS Insight, March 9, 2016
EPA’s Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants: Frequently Asked Questions, updated March 9, 2016
Poland and Its Relations with the United States: In Brief, updated March 7, 2016
Iraq: Politics and Governance, updated March 9, 2016
Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress, updated March 8, 2016
Navy Ohio Replacement (SSBN[X]) Ballistic Missile Submarine Program: Background and Issues for Congress, updated March 8, 2016
Daylight Saving Time, March 9, 2016
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.