Sentences with phrase «including national defense»

Earned numerous awards, medals and commendations, including National Defense Ribbon for the Persian Gulf War

«We need a real budget, one that allows responsible investments in critical federal programs — including our national defense — without breaking the bank and pushing our country further into deficits and debt,» said Hal Rogers (Republican, Kentucky), chairman of the House of Representatives appropriations committee, in a written statement.

«This package makes the most of each and every dollar, roots out waste and abuse, reins in bureaucratic overreach, and provides stable funding for important national programs — including our national defense — for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Well, if you're in favor of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, a strong Securities and Exchange Commission and a whole lot of other things, including national defense, you are already for a pretty big government.

I'm supportive of including national defense as one among many Republican policy positions.

No programs would be safe, including national defense.

Some examples of public goods include national defense, the protection of the environment and basic infrastructures.

Key Highlights: • Integrated AF positions and coordinated all inputs to OSD and Joint Staff on strategy to include the National Defense Strategy, National Military Strategy, National Security Strategy, QDR, and other high - level Joint and national policy guidance.

Not exact matches

And certain things are better done on the federal level than at the state level: national defense, a monetary system, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international dinational defense, a monetary system, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international diNational Park System, and international diplomacy.

The law allows companies to directly share information with the Department of Defense, including the National Security Agency (NSA), without fear of being sued.

The president's $ 4.4 trillion budget, unveiled Monday, includes federal spending of $ 200 billion for infrastructure upgrades; $ 18 billion for Trump's border wall; and $ 716 billion for national defense.

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

As in years past, recipients of Donors Trust cash include the biggest players in conservative politics today: the David Koch - chaired Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the Cato Institute, the FreedomWorks Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, and the influential State Policy Network.

While a small group of conservative evangelical leaders — including Samaritan's Purse's Franklin Graham, the National Religious Broadcasters» Jerry Johnson, and the American Center for Law and Justice's Jay Sekulow — have spoken out in defense of Trump's plan, the open letter in the Post further cemented the growing consensus among evangelical experts that Trump's executive order on refugees is unnecessary and harmful.

Other participants in the Further With Food collaboration include the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Feeding America, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the National Consumers League, Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund.

With 14 starters back this season, including seven on the brilliant defense, Nebraska seemed poised to win an unprecedented third consecutive national championship.

He says failure to include all impacted waterways is a dereliction of duty and demands immediate attention from top brass at the Air Force, Air National Guard and Department of Defense.

Advocacy groups including No Labels, the National Resources Defense Council and Washington Conservation Voters are current clients, according to Myers, who has also been pitching the service to sitting members of Congress.

In this interview, conducted by a reporter with the group called USWGO, Virgil Goode answers questions regarding a wide variety of questions, including Agenda21, National Defense Authorization Act, the North American Union, Illegal Immigration, and the TSA.

Those officially invited to make submissions of their memoranda include the Chairman and members of the Jon - ode Arms Probe Panel, National Security Adviser (NSA), Defense Minister, Finance Minister, Interior Minister, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Accountant General of the Federation and Auditor General of the Federation.

Seggos and Hutton were at the press conference with Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who announced legislative action he is taking to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base and halts PFOS - laden discharges from the base into area water bodies, including the city's main drinking water source, Washington Lake.

Fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization - Conference Report — Vote Passed (356 - 70, 7 Not Voting) Adoption of the conference report on the bill would authorize $ 692.1 billion for defense programs in fiscal 2018, including $ 65.7 billion for overseas operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and for the general war on Defense Authorization - Conference Report — Vote Passed (356 - 70, 7 Not Voting) Adoption of the conference report on the bill would authorize $ 692.1 billion for defense programs in fiscal 2018, including $ 65.7 billion for overseas operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and for the general war on defense programs in fiscal 2018, including $ 65.7 billion for overseas operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and for the general war on terror.

Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Elise Stefanik have worked this summer to ensure the company's brand of additive manufacturing is included in provisions to the National Defense Authorization Act.

They included his 1983 inaugural, his famous keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, a talk at Yale University in 1985, and of course, his defense of abortion rights at the University of Notre Dame that defined how «Cuomo wrestled with his Catholicism even as he became richly tied to its intellectual traditions and spiritual message.»

The measure was included in the Senate's version of the National Defense Authorization Act which was approved in June.

[1] These reductions would hit most agencies, including both civilian science and technology programs like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), as well as basic and applied research activities in the Department of Defense (DOD).

The news came a year after Attorney General Jeff Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science, an Obama administration - era collaboration between the Justice Department and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology that brought together scientists, judicial players including prosecutors, defense lawyers, federal crime labs directors in an effort to improve forensic science.

The latter includes all science funders except the Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

The groups supporting the agreement include American Electric Power, Conservation International, Duke Energy, El Paso Corp., Environmental Defense Fund, Disney Corp., Marriott International, Mercy Corps, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corp., Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Woods Hole Research Center.

For instance, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency invented the Internet, researchers at NASA have made dozens of breakthroughs, including the computer microchip and CAT scanner technology, and over 80 Nobel Prizes have been awarded for National Institutes of Health supported research.

«The president's proposed FY18 budget is an imbalanced, heavy - handed approach to bolstering national defense at the expense of other American priorities, including the research and innovation crucial to national security,» said Mary Woolley, president and CEO of Research!America in Arlington, Virgnia.

Meanwhile, the State Department is working to coordinate the various U.S. and international government agencies involved in the fight against Ebola, including the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, as well as U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Security Council.

The incidents included inadvertent shipments of live anthrax samples at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and the Department of Defense, and the discovery of old vials of live smallpox on the campus of the National Institutes of Health.

R&D spending includes everything from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's initiatives in the Defense Department relating to biosecurity and technological tracking devices, to the National Institutes of Health's projects relating to research into precision medicine and advances in the understanding of the brain.

Taken alone, research funding — a category that does not include development spending, which is primarily found in the Defense Department, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Energy Department — would increase by at least 2 % in fiscal 2017 based on spending measures House and Senate appropriations panels have approved, the report said.

One key change would require the NSF director to certify that every grant will achieve one or more of six national goals — including strengthening the U.S. economy, bolstering national defense, increasing partnerships between academia and industry, and training the next generation of scientists.

The study was supported by the U.S. government grants including National Institutes of Health grant AI106002, contracts HHSN272200900047C and HHSN2720100007C and Department of Defense grant HDTRA1 -10-1-0067.

Funders of the work include the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, the National Institutes of Health, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, and the UCSF Program in Breakthrough Biomedical Research.

Other research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), already have such hiring authority.

Nuclear Security — To address our national security needs and meet emerging threats from around the globe, the bill provides a total of $ 13.9 billion for DOE's nuclear weapons security programs, including Weapons Activities, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Naval Reactors — a $ 976 million increase above the fiscal year 2017 level.

Dr. Grafman is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Defense Meritorious Service Award, the National Institutes of Health Award of Merit and the 2010 National Institutes of Health Director's Award for his work in traumatic brain injury.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

Our detectors worked well and we included them as a part of our prototype device that was sent in the fall to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for their Defense Threat Reduction Agency - funded test campaign.»

The Federal agencies involved in PECASE include: the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

Funders include the Department of Defense, NJ Commission on SCI Research, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living & Rehabilitation Research, Veterans Administration, Acorda Therapeutics, and Kessler Foundation.

She also has interests in environmental issues and supports several «green» organizations, including the National Resources Defense Council.

Research funding sources include the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living & Rehabilitation Research, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, the New Jersey Commission for SCI Research, and Kessler Foundation.

The study was included in the National Defense Authorization Act, a Defense Department spending bill that the House and Senate agreed to last week.

While we are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), we can also provide letters of collaboration for proposals to other federal scientific research agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DoD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Energy (DoE), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The Task Force is chaired by Vice President Joe Biden and consists of the heads of major executive branch departments, agencies, and offices including the NIH, the NCI, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Health, the National Economic Council, and others.