Product Description: On June 4th, 2015, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had identified a cybersecurity breach affecting personnel data for approximately 4 million current and former federal employees, including personally identifiable information (PII)...read more

Product Description: Dyslexia, a developmental reading disorder, is characterized by difficulty with learning to read fluently and with accurate comprehension despite normal or above-average intelligence. This language processing disorder can hinder reading, writing, spelling and sometimes even speaking...read more

Product Description: Today's hearing is on a subject important to our Nation and to our world. This is the first hearing of two on space threats to Earth, reviewing U.S. Government efforts to track incoming asteroids and meteors. NASA believes it has discovered 93 percent of the largest asteroids in near-Earth orbit, those 1 kilometer or larger, but what about the other seven percent remaining, about 70, or even those smaller than 1 kilometer, estimated to be in the thousands? An asteroid as small as 100 meters could destroy an entire city upon a direct hit...read more

Product Description: Although the United States is currently capitalizing on its investment in science and technology effectively, there remains much room for improvement. This volume identifies the ingredients for success in capitalizing on such investments to produce national benefits, assesses current U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this report, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) provides its observations on the federal science and technology (FS&T) portion of the president's fiscal year (FY) 1999 submission. The FS&T budget (see box) reflects the federal investment in the creation of new knowledge and technologies and excludes such activities as the testing and evaluating of new weapons systems...read more

Product Description: The government of the United States today is deeply involved in activities that have significant scientific and technical (S & T) components that are vitally important for economic productivity and technological competitiveness, national security, an improved environment, better health, and many other purposes...read more

Product Description: The military, political, and economic preeminence of the United States during the post-World War II era is based to a substantial degree on its superior rate of achievement in science and technology, as well as on its capacity to translate these achievements into products and processes that contribute to economic prosperity and the national defense...read more