A new U.S. Navy instruction offers a “guide to the operation and administration of detention facilities.”
Detention means “the temporary holding of persons in custody in a detention facility pending a decision to officially charge them with a criminal offense. Detention is distinctly different from confinement that includes pretrial or post-trial confinement.”
See “Guide for the Operation and Administration of Detention Facilities” (pdf), OPNAV Instruction 1640.9A, December 11, 2006.
Another new Navy instruction concerns information assurance. See “Navy Implementation of Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)” (pdf), OPNAV Instruction 5239.3, November 27, 2006.
If carbon markets are going to play a meaningful role — whether as engines of transition finance, as instruments of accurate pricing across heterogeneous climate interventions, or both — they need the infrastructure and standards that any serious market requires.
Good information sources, like collections, must be available and maintained if companies are going to successfully implement the vision of AI for science expressed by their marketing and executives.
Let’s see what rules we can rewrite and beliefs we can reset: a few digital service sacred cows are long overdue to be put out to pasture.
Nestled in the cuts and investments of interest to the S&T community is a more complex story of how the administration is approaching the practice of science diplomacy.