Some recent reports of the Congressional Research Service that have not previously been made readily available in the public domain include the following (all pdf).
“Climate Change: Science and Policy Implications,” January 25, 2007.
“Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force,” updated January 12, 2007.
“U.S. Military Dispositions: Fact Sheet,” updated January 30, 2007.
“Navy Ship Names: Background For Congress,” updated January 17, 2007.
“Latin America: Terrorism Issues,” updated January 22, 2007.
“U.S. National Science Foundation: An Overview,” updated January 24, 2007.
“War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance,” updated January 16, 2007.
“Laos: Background and U.S. Relations,” updated February 5, 2007.
“Kyrgyzstan’s Constitutional Crisis: Context and Implications for U.S. Interests,” updated January 5, 2007.
At the conclusion of a widely cited article on U.S. policy towards Iran in the latest issue of The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh referred to a November 2006 report by CRS “on what it depicted as the Administration’s blurring of the line between C.I.A. activities and strictly military ones.”
The referenced report is “Covert Action: Legislative Background and Possible Policy Questions,” November 2, 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.