Some noteworthy, newly updated products of the Congressional Research Service that are not readily available in the public domain include the following (all pdf).
“Congressional Oversight Manual,” updated January 3, 2007.
“Paperwork Reduction Act Reauthorization and Government Information Management Issues,” updated January 4, 2007.
“Nuclear Arms Control: The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty,” updated January 3, 2007.
“Proliferation Control Regimes: Background and Status,” updated December 26, 2006.
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.
This year’s Red Sky Summit was an opportunity to further consider what the role of fire tech can and should be – and how public policy can support its development, scaling, and application.