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JASON: Severe space weather can damage the power grid
Coronal mass ejections--enormous magnetized clouds of electrified gas emitted from the sun--have been known to disrupt the electric grid as they hit the Earth's protective magnetic field, and because
NASA loses astromaterials
NASA has a difficult time keeping track of astromaterial samples collected in space and the Antarctic that were later loaned to researchers or for educational purposes, says the NASA inspector
NASA official: JWST back on track
After extending cost and schedule milestones for the beleaguered James Webb Space Telescope in January 2011, the program is back on track and will launch by its revised target date in 2018, said
ARRA funds create problems, set precedents for science programs
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 essentially doubled science appropriations for fiscal 2011, but departments have had mixed results in managing the approximately $40 billion
Inactive users outnumber active users in NRC online system
Inactive accounts for an online Nuclear Regulatory Commission system used for developing probabilistic risk assessments of nuclear plants outnumber active accounts, says a report from the NRC office
Minibus makes science cuts; NSTIC survives
A multi-agency funding bill signed into law Nov. 18 by President Obama will make cuts to science and research programs relative to the budget request made earlier this year, but only a few agencies
U.S. earth observation satellite hacked in 2008, says report
Malicious actors of unknown origin seized control of a NASA earth-observation satellite twice in 2008, says a an annual report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The report,
OMB's contracting efficiencies savings overstated, says GAO
Reported savings of an Office of Management and Budget initiative directing agencies cut costs through better contracting practices have been based on inconsistent data sources, says the Government
Congress poised to pass fiscal 2012 'minibus'
House and Senate appropriators unveiled Nov. 14 a "minibus" bill that would fund the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, as well as NASA,
DNI should create a climate change monitoring body, says DSB
The Director of National Intelligence should stand up an organization to monitor how climate change affects political and economic development worldwide and its possible impacts on U.S. national
