Author: National Research Council

Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, off...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk path...

The U.S. Air Force has experienced many acquisition program failures - cost overruns, schedule delays, system performance problems, and sustainabil...

Dual-use applications for chemical manufacturing equipment have been recognized as a concern for many years, and export-control regulations worldwi...

During the period 1990 to 2010, U.S. job growth occurred primarily in the high-skilled and low-skilled sectors. Yet, one-third of projected job gro...

One of the last two sites with chemical munitions and chemical materiel is the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The stockpile at this loc...

Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States are frequently overlooked, misunderstood, and unaddressed domesti...

A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD...

The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five su...

According to recent reports, the United States currently accounts for less than one-third of global research and development spending, and it is pr...

The past 15 years have seen marked progress in observing, understanding, and predicting weather. At the same time, the United States has failed to ...

The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PC...

In the last few decades great strides have been made in chemistry at the nanoscale, where the atomic granularity of matter and the exact positions ...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

Nanotechnology has become one of the defining ideas in global R&D over the past decade. In 2001 the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) wa...

Safeguarding U.S. agriculture from foreign animal diseases and protecting our food system require cutting-edge research and diagnostic capabilities...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) permeate the modern world. The jobs people do, the foods they eat, the vehicles in which t...

Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science research is expanding across the globeand with it com...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institut...

Elder Abuse and Its Prevention is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Preventi...

The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA) is described as a worldwide network of sensors, telecommunications, and personnel, with the suppor...

The Republic of Indonesia, home to over 240 million people, is the world's fourth most populous nation. Ethnically, culturally, and economically di...

Earth science, which in this context does not include oceanic, atmospheric, and space sciences, is vital to the wellbeing of the United States and ...