Tag: USA

(USA/NASA/Space) NASA’s Perseverance rover is about to start searching for life on Mars (MIT Technology Review)

Neel V. Patel If the rover makes a safe landing at Jezero crater, it will begin one of the most ambitious missions NASA has ever...
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(USA/Human Rights/Multilateral Institutions) Biden’s Next Steps on Human Rights: Multilateral Institutions (HRW)

Kenneth Roth The United States government's decision to "reengage" with the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council is a big step toward the multilateral support for human rights...
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(USA/Reparative Justice) H.R. 40: Exploring the Path to Reparative Justice in America (HRW)

Dreisen Heath On behalf of Human Rights Watch, I thank Chairman Nadler and Ranking Member Jordan of the US House Committee on the Judiciary and...
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(USA/Public Schools) Who governs our public schools? (Brookings)

Vladimir Kogan, Stéphane Lavertu, and Zachary Peskowitz Most Americans would agree that public education should serve the educational needs of students. But to what extent does our...
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(USA/Infrastructure) How Biden can succeed on infrastructure where Trump did not (Brookings)

DJ Gribbin Washington, D.C. is developing a tradition: With the start of a new administration comes grand promises of federal solutions to our nation’s infrastructure...
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(USA/Asia/Economic Policies) US must urgently rethink its economic policies in Asia (Brookings)

David Dollar and Jonathan Stromseth As a new administration takes over in Washington, countries in Asia are watching closely to see if the United States can stabilize...
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(Iraq/USA/ISIS/Iran) To save Iraq from economic collapse and fight ISIS, contain Iran’s proxies (Brookings)

Ranj Alaaldin The day after President Biden was inaugurated, Baghdad was hit by two suicide bombers who, in macabre fashion, killed at least 32 people...
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(USA/Global Governance) Blueprints to strengthen governance in addressing global challenges (Brookings)

Joshua P. Meltzer The Biden administration is less than one month old, but the challenges facing the United States—from getting ahead of the COVID-19 crisis...
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(USA/USAID) Making USAID a premier development agency (Brookings)

George Ingram Two challenges uppermost on the agenda of the Biden administration, COVID-19 and climate change, are issues of both domestic and international import. https://www.brookings.edu/research/making-usaid-a-premier-development-agency/
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(USA/Subnational Diplomacy) Partnership among cities, states, and the federal government: Creating an office of subnational diplomacy at the US Department of State (Brookings)

Anthony F. Pipa and Max Bouchet Meeting with U.S. mayors shortly after the U.S. election, President-elect Joe Biden pledged to work with them in a new partnership between local...
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(USA/US Navy) With the submarine threat on the rise, the US Navy looks to autonomous water sensor drones (Defense News)

David B. Larter The U.S. Navy is collecting proposals for a new autonomous glider drone that can collect data — such as water temperatures over...
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(USA/Space) Space Operations Command taps LinQuest for support (Defense News)

Nathan Strout Space Operations Command awarded a nearly decade-long $200 million contract for advisory and assistance services to LinQuest, the Department of Defense announced Feb....
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(USA/US Navy) The Navy’s top data official wants to incentivize interoperability (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden The U.S. military’s joint warfighting effort, known as JADC2, depends on the ability to transfer data between disparate systems. To help build out those...
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(USA/Space) L3Harris leaped from tracking weather to tracking missiles, cracking a competitive field (Defense News)

Nathan Strout In January 2017, one of the government’s newest weather satellites picked up the most bizarre signal: a wildfire moving at breakneck speeds across...
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(USA/Pentagon) Spencer Boyer tapped as deputy assistant secretary for Europe and NATO (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta Spencer Boyer, a former intelligence and U.S. State Department official, has been tapped to be the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for...
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(USA) Raytheon to challenge Lockheed’s takeover of Aerojet, CEO says (Defense News)

Joe Gould Raytheon Technologies plans to challenge Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4.4 billion takeover of Aerojet Rocketdyne with the U.S. government, CEO Greg Hayes said Wednesday. https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2021/02/17/raytheon-to-challenge-lockheed-aerojet-merger-ceo-says/
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