News from October 2011
By Commerce News Now | Oct 25, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 25, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 25, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Oct 25, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Oct 25, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS, MN. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), the Metropolitan Drug Task (Metro Drug), and other state and local agencies recently arrested several members of a suspected drug trafficking organization operating in the Indianapolis area. The seizure of over 10,000 pounds of marijuana is the largest...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 25, 2011 - Today, the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands held a legislative hearing on eight bills related to Wilderness and public lands. The bills included measures to modify the boundaries of current federal land holdings, establish new Wilderness areas, and allow for the disposal of surplus federal lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: Dear Secretary Sebelius: As the Ranking Members of the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees, we are writing to request that as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), you exercise the discretionary authority granted to you through Section 6401(a)(6) of the Patient Protection...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS, MN. - A 32-year-old Isanti man was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2011 for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy. United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim sentenced Benjamin Michael Saxton to 110 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to distribute 50 or more grams of methamphetamine after Saxton and three other codefendants were indicted on Oct. 19, 2009. Saxton entered a guilty plea on Feb. 23, 2010.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, held hearings and released reports in 2004 and 2010, exposing actions taken by Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue and his father, President of Equatorial Guinea, in the United States. Levin released the following statement about the civil forfeiture actions filed today by the U.S. Department of Justice...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: Ten prominent building and fire experts have been appointed by Patrick Gallagher, director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to serve on the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Advisory Committee. The committee, first established in 2003, advises the NIST director and...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the first deepwater drilling permit granted by the Department of Interior to BP following their Gulf of Mexico spill, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held an oversight hearing to examine the Department of Education’s implementation of the Direct Loan Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Republicans today bequeathed 2,300 acres of American land to a company that shares a uranium mine with Iran, but not before Republicans rejected the notion that the company should sever all ties with the dangerous Iranian regime before the company is given public land to mine copper.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Washington man and an Oregon man pleaded guilty on Tuesday for their roles in NinjaVideo.net, a website that provided millions of users with the ability to illegally download infringing copies of copyright-protected movies and television programs in high-quality formats. This investigation is being conducted by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center ).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: November Offerings Focus on Area's Rich History and Patriotism.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative, Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a $60 million investment over 3 years for applied scientific research to advance cutting-edge Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technologies. CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: Government Computer News magazine has honored the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF), which the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released last year, with one of its 10 annual awards for information technology (IT) achievement in government.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th and final definition has been published as The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-145).
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Clearwater, Fla., woman was sentenced Tuesday to 38 months in prison for her role in a scheme in which she and others imported counterfeit integrated circuits from China and Hong Kong and sold hundreds of thousands of them to the U.S. Navy, defense contractors and others, marketing some of these products as "military-grade."
