This NASA office https://www.nasa.gov/organizations/otps/ was created in November 2021 within the Office of the NASA Administrator to work transparently in collaboration across NASA and with the broader space community to provide NASA leadership with a trade space of data- and evidence-driven options to develop and shape NASA policy, strategy, and technology. These slides https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/otps-mandate-and-overview-presentation-tagged.pdf?emrc=470768 provide … Continue reading NASA Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy
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2024 Government Information Day Conference: Virtual Registration Open
Registration is now open for virtual attendance for the 2024 Government Information Day Conference on Friday May 17th. Below are the registration links to virtual sessions through Zoom. Government Information Day, or GID, is a free biennial conference for librarians interested in learning about government resources and improving information literacy. The conference is on Friday … Continue reading 2024 Government Information Day Conference: Virtual Registration Open
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) | U.S. Department of the Treasury is a Treasury Department based interagency forum whose members include representatives from Department of the Treasury (chair), and the following agencies Justice, Homeland Security, Commerce, Defense, State, Energy, Office of … Continue reading Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
Census Bureau Director Robert Santos visits the Indiana State Library
The Indiana State Data Center welcomed Robert L. Santos, the 26th Director of the U.S. Census Bureau to the Indiana State Library Friday, February 23. Santos has held a 40-year career in Statistics during which he has worked with many outstanding research institutions across the nation. During his visit to the library, Santos emphasized that … Continue reading Census Bureau Director Robert Santos visits the Indiana State Library
U.S. Government Resources on Russo-Ukraine War
February 22 will mark the second anniversary of Russia’s war against Ukraine. There are numerous U.S government information resources documenting U.S. policy toward this protracted conflict and the controversies over it. The Defense Department’s Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo189421 documents this assistance in various ways with a February 13, 2024 infographic … Continue reading U.S. Government Resources on Russo-Ukraine War
2024 Government Information Day Schedule
GID24 will be returning to the Indiana State Library on Friday, May 17th, 2024. The free conference will be a 1-day hybrid event (in-person and some virtual sessions). This year’s Keynote Address Speaker will be Scott Matheson, Superintendent of Documents, Government Publishing Office. Each session, including a behind-the-scenes tour of the Indiana State Library, will … Continue reading 2024 Government Information Day Schedule
Census of Agriculture
The 2022 Census of Agriculture List of Reports and Publications | 2022 Census of Agriculture | USDA/NASS documents U.S. agricultural sector activity every 5 years for years ending in 2 and 7. 2022 Census of Agriculture data will be released beginning February 13, 2024 at the URL above and be released for multiple years covering multiple … Continue reading Census of Agriculture
USDA Foreign Farm Ownership Data
Foreign ownership of U.S. farm and farmland, particularly by Chinese owners, has become a controversial issue in U.S. politics. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has been publishing annual reports on this subject since 1978 https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/economic-and-policy-analysis/afida/annual-reports/index These reports are legally mandated by Public Law 95-460 The Agriculture Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of … Continue reading USDA Foreign Farm Ownership Data
National Defense Industrial Strategy
In late 2023, the National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) https://www.businessdefense.gov/docs/ndis/2023-NDIS.pdf was released by the Defense Dept’s Deputy Secretary of Defense. There is considerable debate on the status of the U.S. defense industry and its ability to meet domestic manufacturing needs along with supplying foreign allies as varied as Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine with their national … Continue reading National Defense Industrial Strategy
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) https://ofac.treasury.gov/ administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national … Continue reading Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
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