The Department of Defense has issued several noteworthy new policy Instructions on intelligence and national security matters, including the following (all pdf).
“Joint Reserve Intelligence Program (JRIP),” DoD Instruction 3305.07, March 27, 2007.
“DoD Counterintelligence (CI) Training,” DoD Instruction 3305.11, March 19, 2007.
“Minimum Security Standards for Safeguarding Chemical Agents,” DoD Instruction 5210.65, March 12, 2007.
The bootcamp brought more than two dozen next-generation open-source practitioners from across the United States to Washington DC, where they participated in interactive modules, group discussions, and hands-on sleuthing.
Fourteen teams from ten U.S. states have been selected as the Stage 2 awardees in the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national competition that helps communities turn emerging research into ready-to-implement solutions.
The Fix Our Forests Act provides an opportunity to speed up the planning and implementation of wildfire risk reduction projects on federal lands while expanding collaborative tools to bring more partners into this vital work.
Public health insurance programs, especially Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are more likely to cover populations at increased risk from extreme heat, including low-income individuals, people with chronic illnesses, older adults, disabled adults, and children.