With congressional concurrence, the Congressional Research Service refuses to make its products directly available to the public. Some noteworthy new CRS reports obtained by Secrecy News include the following (all pdf).
“Presidential Advisers’ Testimony Before Congressional Committees: An Overview,” updated April 10, 2007.
“Information Operations, Electronic Warfare, and Cyberwar: Capabilities and Related Policy Issues,” updated March 20, 2007.
“Network Centric Operations: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress,” updated March 15, 2007.
“Statutes of Limitation in Federal Criminal Cases: An Overview,” updated April 9, 2007.
“Speechwriting in Perspective: A Brief Guide to Effective and Persuasive Communication,” April 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.