News release: “After more than a decade of nationwide effort, the Digital Promise Project has achieved an essential goal the creation of the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies. This year the Department of Education, as provided by their 2010 appropriations legislation, will make available the initial funding required to launch the National Center. In the words of the Centers authorizing legislation, The purpose of the Center shall be to support a comprehensive research and development program to harness the increasing capability of advanced information and digital technologies to improve all levels of learning and education, formal and informal, in order to provide Americans with the knowledge and skills needed to compete in the global economy. Congress voted overwhelmingly to establish this Center, the first new national research center in many years, as an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Authorized in 2008 by amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965, the National Center will have a governing board of nine members, which will include outstanding representatives from the public and private sectors and from varied professions and disciplines.”
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Daily Archives: February 1, 2010
Budget of the United States Government, FY11
Budget of the United States Government – FY11: Contains the budget message of the President, information about the President’s budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications. “See the White House FY 2011 Budget website for details about different departments, terminations and reductions, or to learn how the budget will affect your… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: NASA Large-Scale Projects, DOD Acquisitions, New Markets Tax Credit
NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects, GAO-10-227SP, February 01, 2010 Defense Acquisitions: Observations on the Department of Defense Service Contract Inventories for Fiscal Year 2008, GAO-10-350R, January 29, 2010 Employment and Training Administration: Increased Authority and Accountability Could Improve Research Program, GAO-10-243, January 29, 2010 New Markets Tax Credit: The Credit Helps Fund a Variety… Continue Reading
DOD Releases Defense Reviews, 2011 Budget Proposal, and 2010 War Funding Supplemental Request – Update
News release: “President Barack Obama sent to Congress a proposed defense budget of $708 billion for fiscal 2011. The budget request for the Department of Defense (DoD) includes $549 billion in discretionary budget authority to fund base defense programs and $159 billion to support overseas contingency operations (OCO), primarily in Afghanistan and Iraq. This proposal… Continue Reading
Gross Domestic Product release, Fourth Quarter 2009 (Advance Estimate)
Gross Domestic Product release, Fourth Quarter 2009 (Advance Estimate). Note – includes highlights, technical note, and associated tables. “Real gross domestic product – the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, (that… Continue Reading
Rate of Confirmed AIDS in Prison 2.5 Times Rate in U.S. General Population
HIV in Prisons, 2007-08 (NCJ 228307), by Bureau of Justice Statistics statistician Laura M. Maruschak and intern Randy Beavers. On December 31, 2008, a reported 20,449 state prisoners and 1,538 federal prisoners were HIV positive or had confirmed AIDS, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice,… Continue Reading
Homeland Security Haiti Social Media Disaster Monitoring Initiative
Privacy Impact Assessment for the Office of Operations Coordination and Planning Haiti Social Media Disaster Monitoring Initiative, January 21, 2010: “The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPS), National Operations Center (NOC), has launched a Haiti Social Media Disaster Monitoring Initiative (Initiative) to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and its components involved in… Continue Reading
USGS Releases New One-Stop Source for Scientific Information about U.S. Oceans and Waters
News release: “A one-stop source for biogeographic information collected from U.S. waters and oceanic regions is now available from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Program. The OBIS-USA website offers a unique combination of tools, resources, and biodiversity information to aide scientists, resource managers and decision makers in the research and analyses critical to sustaining… Continue Reading
EIA: Petroleum Marketing Monthly, Natural Gas Monthly, Monthly Energy Review
February 2010 Petroleum Marketing Monthly With Data for November 2009 Feb 1, 2010:” “Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level. Natural Gas Monthly Jan 29, 2010: “Monthly natural and supplemental gas production, supply, consumption, disposition, storage, imports, exports, and prices in the… Continue Reading
