Sentences with phrase «agencies funding the efforts»

The success of these initial experiments will be critical in demonstrating the long - term viability of HAARP to the agencies funding the efforts along with the navy: the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.

Not exact matches

As for that leverage: you can rest assured that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has long been funding research efforts to replace the rare - earth metals with other materials.

That effort largely focuses on reducing Energy Department spending energy subsidies and stopping the agency from issuing any more loan guarantees — the same program that funded Solyndra.

The mechanism spares the cash - strapped, understaffed agency from having to fund efforts to monitor these multibillion dollar global enterprises.

With funds continuing to be raised for the B Strong Initiative, we are preparing once again to expand our efforts, and to include new partner agencies in disaster - impacted regions worldwide.

Contributions and profits from the sale of promotional items are used to help Choose Life America, Inc. promote the sale of the real Choose Life License Plate which raises funds to support adoption efforts of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Maternity Homes and not - for - profit adoption agencies.

It's about the determination of Republicans to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, National Public Radio and the Environmental Protection Agency - efforts that have absolutely nothing to do with the deficit.

The UN has expressed concern over this and efforts are underway to preserve them; through the World Wildlife Fund, the World Bank and other agencies.

Behind the scenes — making possible the very situations in which conversation about religion can happen — are massive ecclesiastical bureaucracies, hours and hours of administrative labor, vast fund - raising efforts, complex bookkeeping schemes, training programs, and patronage and other distribution agencies, all of which play their part in maintaining religious realities.

The UN has expressed concern over this and efforts are underway to preserve them, through the World Wild Life Fund, the World Band and other agencies.

Funded by the State of Washington Children's Administration, in collaboration with NWAE and private adoption agencies in Washington, SRP combines enhanced outreach with targeted search efforts in order to recruit adoptive families for these children.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE The two city agencies that are most likely to contribute resources to a plan to substantially reduce new HIV infections in New York saw their funding cut in the city's preliminary budget, suggesting that any effort those agencies might make to advance the plan will be paid for by reprogramming existing cash -LSB-...]

Ongoing cleanup of the Buffalo River and the City Ship Canal will continue as the Environmental Protection Agency restored funding for the effort.

Rodríguez also referenced efforts to expand legal services to protect tenants, noting that $ 2 million in Council funding has bolstered agencies such as Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation, Manhattan Legal Services and Legal Aid Society.

Dubbed «The Hunger Games» for the competition - like effort that pits regions against each other for funding, the program is run through Cuomo's economic development agency.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

In a collaborative effort with another state agency, HCR has partnered with Empire State Development (ESD) to help retain and expand Amsterdam Printing and save 365 jobs by investing $ 900,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and $ 5.6 million in equity.

He supports the policy position of Paul Giardina, his running mate on the Republican ticket, of utilizing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water State Revolving Fund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation fFund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation fundfund.

The total would include $ 7.4 billion for the Homeland Security Department's Disaster Relief Fund, which will be used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support ongoing hurricane response efforts.

«Though I applaud the efforts that the administration's [making] to fund other law enforcement agencies such as the NYPD, it is irresponsible not to include funding for our city's prosecutors.»

It is one of the results of the efforts of the anti-graft agencies to find out how public funds were looted in the past.

The funds will be used to hire 11 staffers who could start as soon as July as part of a citywide effort to address sexual harassment in public agencies.

Green groups are praising New York's Congressional delegation for their efforts to preserve funding for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2018 spending bill.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE The two city agencies that are most likely to contribute resources to a plan to substantially reduce new HIV infections in New York saw their funding cut in the city's preliminary budget, suggesting that any effort those agencies might make to advance the plan will be paid for by reprogramming existing cash and not from new money.

In exchange for the funds, Seminerio, Boyland and Kruger advocated on Rosenâ $ ™ s behalf with state agencies, co-sponsored legislation to benefit MediSys and lobbied on the health systemâ $ ™ s behalf in its effort to acquire St. Johnâ $ ™ s Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, which at the time were owned by Caritas.

MIRA «is part of an effort across the National Institutes of Health to expand the agency's use of awards that support people based on their track record, not projects,» but the problem is that, «[o] n average, the new awards amount to a 12 % cut in a recipient's overall average NIGMS funding for the past 5 years, with much deeper cuts for some.»

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

NASA, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and other science funding agencies are expanding adventurous undergraduate research opportunities in the United States and other countries in an effort to encourage students to choose careers in science and engineering.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

Like every government agency, NASA faces sharp cutbacks as part of the larger effort to tame the federal deficit; this was underscored in July, when the House Appropriations Committee stripped funding for the high - priority (and over-budget) James Webb Space Telescope.

While several organizations like the World Bank, European agencies, nonprofit agencies and USAID have commissioned studies, experts yesterday acknowledged that no one has emerged with a systematic approach to understanding local climate change adaptation efforts or using them to inform the work of the multibillion - dollar Green Climate Fund.

Such reform lies beyond the reach of any contract negotiation, of course, and would require the efforts of legislators, academic leaders, and funding agencies that currently tolerate, or even encourage, the present system.

In 2011, however, NASA abandoned the effort due to its high estimated cost and shortfalls in the agency's science funding.

On January 23, an EPA employee leaked that agency staff were instructed to put a freeze on all grants and contracts, which delegate and fund state efforts such as water quality testing and air pollution monitoring.

The agency has transplanted 23 in - progress programs from other divisions to seed the BTO, and it could decide to fund new biotech effort as others age out.

Public and private funding agencies in the United States, a nation whose prosperity has been generated in no small part by the infusion of human talent from all over the world, have a special responsibility to support these critical efforts.

Agencies should better coordinate existing federal research efforts into pollinators, but some research will require new funding from Congress, the task force says; the scientific findings that emerge would feed into policy actions taken under the broader pollinator health initiative.

Science Careers spoke with Isabelle Vernos, chairwoman of the ERC Scientific Council's Working Group on Gender Balance and research professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, about the funding agency's efforts to bolster the prospects of female applicants.

Researcher Eduardo Simoes says if more public health agencies adopted this tool to identify top health risks associated with chronic diseases among their specific populations, limited funding for prevention efforts could be proportionately allocated.

A coalition of agencies and other organizations has aired a proposal for a $ 200 million, five - year program to fund everything from efforts to annihilate alien species to rare - plant rescue missions by helicopter.

Responding to recommendations made in 2011 by an international review panel led by Elias Zerhouni, the former head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency launched a three - pronged reform effort that revamped its funding streams, the way researchers submitted proposals, and the way proposals are reviewed.

«Lithium is explosive in water,» Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, or ARPA — e, which is funding PolyPlus's development effort, noted at the agency's second annual conference MaAgency — Energy, or ARPA — e, which is funding PolyPlus's development effort, noted at the agency's second annual conference Maagency's second annual conference March 1.

But with lawmakers and government agencies ratcheting up the rhetoric about dirty bombs in their lobbying for more funding, the average citizen can hardly be blamed for considering dirty bombs a grave threat — a perfect example of well - intentioned efforts that would amplify, not dampen, the impact of a terrorist attack.

International or federal agencies should encourage such collaborative efforts by providing plenty of funding sources and opportunities.

Obama's approach straddles that divide somewhat, calling for massive deployment efforts as well as more funding of basic energy science by a new agency, ARPA - E.

MB - 003 was developed through a decade - long collaborative effort between private industry and the U.S. government, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

NASA's SETI efforts, which ran from the 1970s to the 1990s, consumed about $ 110 million across 20 years, according to the agency's former chief historian, the astronomer Steven Dick, who calls today's announcement a «sea change» in SETI funding.

The unprecedented effort, logistically supported by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and funded by the National Science Foundation, USGS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, required the assistance of numerous personnel, multiple helicopters and deployment of the U.S. Coast Guard ice - breaker, the Polar Sea.

There supposedly is a «duplication of efforts,» a rivalry between CDC and the U.S. Agency for International Development that undermine in - country programs, an «inappropriate» use of funds.

Beyond institutions, redirecting training efforts will require a concerted effort on the part of postdocs, faculty, disciplinary societies, and funding agencies to provide information on the variety of jobs that trained scientists are qualified for and professional development programs to help Ph.D. s gain entry into these fields.