News from January 2009
By DOT News Wire | Jan 13, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 13, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 13, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) today released its latest audit of U.S. government contracts in Iraq, entitled “Cost, Outcome, and Oversight of Oil Reconstruction Contract with Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc." The report examines a contract awarded to Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR) in rebuilding oil infrastructure in the southern region of Iraq.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today requested a study of the agricultural market in India including the effects of tariff and non-tariff measures on U.S. agricultural exports. In their letter to Chairman Shara L. Aranoff...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced nine awards for new research projects to develop advanced sensing technologies that would enable timely and detailed monitoring and inspection of the structural health of bridges, roadways and water systems that comprise a significant...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: The Senate Finance Committee is releasing today several documents related to the nomination of Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. The documents, compiled from information received and discovered in the Finance Committee’s vetting process for the nominee, reflect certain errors in the nominee’s past tax returns and an issue with the legal work status of a former household employee. Steps have been taken by the nominee to bring tax returns into compliance.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) alumni researchers Ugo Bertocci and William H. Kirchhoff were recently elected as 2008 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) unveiled updated legislation to renew and improve the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides health insurance to children living in families not poor enough for Medicaid, but still unable to afford private health...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Thefts of personally identifiable information (PII), such as social security and credit card account numbers, are increasing dramatically. Adding to the difficulty of fighting this problem, organizations often disagree on what PII is, and how to protect it. Now, in a first-of-its-kind publication, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a draft guide on protecting PII from unauthorized use and disclosure.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Because maintenance on the Colorado River Indian Tribes irrigation system will be completed earlier than expected, the process to refill Lake Moovalya will begin mid-morning on Thursday, January 15. The lake is expected to return to its normal elevation - 364.4 feet above mean sea level - by Thursday afternoon.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., said the Department of Homeland Security’s hasty expansion of an electronic travel security system intended to make Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries more secure comes at the expense of real security in older VWP countries.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold "boson" atoms-the ingredients of Bose-Einstein condensates-into a "supersolid," an exotic state of matter that behaves...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Since 1997, the Children’s Health Insurance Program has provided health coverage to millions of children of working parents who don’t qualify for Medicaid, but who can’t afford private health insurance. In 2007, Congress launched a robust effort to renew and improve the program, twice passing legislation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods is notoriously like herding cats. A new study* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: Special Program on Karen Glaser's Photography, Saturday January 17th.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold an information session for small businesses interested in learning about opportunities for competing on anticipated individual contracts for facility support services on NIST's Gaithersburg, Md., campus.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a method to accelerate stability testing of biodiesel fuel made from soybeans and also identified additives that enhance stability at high temperatures. The results, described in a new paper,* could help overcome a key barrier to practical use of biofuels.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today House Democratic leaders introduced legislation to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides health insurance currently for more than 7 million children. This legislation will protect coverage for those children and expand it to include an additional 4 million children who would otherwise be uninsured.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2009
News Release: The ability of biomolecules to flex and bend is important for the performance of many functions within living cells. However, researchers interested in how biomolecules such as amino acids and proteins function have long had to make inferences from a series of X-ray-like "still pictures" of pure crystalline...
