Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing, and More from CRS
New and updated products from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following.
U.S.-EU Cooperation on Ukraine and Russia, CRS Insights, January 23, 2015
Who’s Your Mommy/Daddy? Citizenship Policy Evolves with Medical Technology, CRS Legal Sidebar, January 27, 2015
U.S. Solar Photovoltaic Manufacturing: Industry Trends, Global Competition, Federal Support, January 27, 2015
Information Warfare: Cyberattacks on Sony, CRS Insights, January 30, 2015
Biennial Budgeting: Options, Issues, and Previous Congressional Action, February 2, 2015
Sex Trafficking of Children in the United States: Overview and Issues for Congress, January 28, 2015
U.S. Natural Gas Exports: New Opportunities, Uncertain Outcomes, January 28, 2015
Health Care for Veterans: Suicide Prevention, January 30, 2015
Wartime Detention Provisions in Recent Defense Authorization Legislation, January 23, 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress, January 30, 2015
The current lack of public trust in AI risks inhibiting innovation and adoption of AI systems, meaning new methods will not be discovered and new benefits won’t be felt. A failure to uphold high standards in the technology we deploy will also place our nation at a strategic disadvantage compared to our competitors.
Using the NIST as an example, the Radiation Physics Building (still without the funding to complete its renovation) is crucial to national security and the medical community. If it were to go down (or away), every medical device in the United States that uses radiation would be decertified within 6 months, creating a significant single point of failure that cannot be quickly mitigated.
The federal government can support more proactive, efficient, and cost-effective resiliency planning by certifying predictive models to validate and publicly indicate their quality.
We need a new agency that specializes in uncovering funding opportunities that were overlooked elsewhere. Judging from the history of scientific breakthroughs, the benefits could be quite substantial.