News from February 2011
By USDA Wire | Feb 15, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 15, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 15, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Feb 15, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Feb 15, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 15, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Feb 15, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Feb 15, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have figured out a cost-benefit balance between identifying the best sites for building bioenergy facilities in the Pacific Northwest and supplying those facilities with the biofeedstock needed to produce fuel.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: President Barack Obama's fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget proposal announced on Feb. 14, 2011, proposes a funding level of $1.001 billion for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an 8.9 percent increase over the President's FY 2011 budget request and a 16.9 percent increase above NIST's FY 2010 appropriations.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., issued the following statement about the Tuesday shooting of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, one of whom died from his wounds.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: President Harry Truman once said: “…The health of all its citizens deserves the help of all the nation.". Today we welcome Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to the Finance Committee to discuss the President’s Budget - and the health of our citizens. Last year, Madam Secretary, you appeared before this Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 15, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Department plans to review the current rules for commercial oil shale leasing.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Information technology experts, insurers, policy makers and representatives of healthcare organizations will convene on April 5-6, 2011, in Bethesda, Md., to survey current approaches to preserving electronic health records (EHRs) and then to chart steps toward ensuring that this valuable digital information is managed over the long term to the full benefit of patients, physicians, researchers and others.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: In a paradox typical of the quantum world, JILA scientists have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms closer together. The surprising discovery, described in the Feb. 3 issue of Science Express,* can boost the performance of experimental atomic clocks made of thousands or tens of thousands of neutral atoms trapped by intersecting laser beams.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, delivered opening remarks at a committee hearing examining the President’s budget proposal for FY 2012. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified before the Committee this afternoon.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Even as Republicans propose cutting services to seniors, children and the neediest American families in their new spending bill, they are leaving $53 billion in potential deficit-reducing funds on the table by protecting oil companies from paying their fair share to drill in the Gulf of...
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Expresses Sorrow for Loss of Life
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: What NIST-led innovation is estimated to have saved U.S. industry $6.1 billion over the past 20 years? Well, probably several, but, perhaps surprisingly, a new economics study* points to the development of "role-based access control," a computer-security technology fostered and championed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the 1990s.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA) are co-hosting FISSEA's 24th annual conference March 15-17, 2011, at NIST's Gaithersburg, Md. campus.
