Biden unveils plan to elevate White House science office to Cabinet-level status
In a move that signals the importance of science to the incoming administration, President-elect Joe Biden announced on January 15 a plan to make the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) a Cabinet-level agency. Learn More.
SBA and Lab-to-Market subcommittee announce winners of $330K prize competition
The U.S. Small Business Administration partnered with the National Science and Technology Council’s Lab-to-Market subcommittee to award $330,000 in prizes to the winners of the new Lab-to-Market (L2M) Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Prize Competition. Learn More.
In report, ARL and partners lay groundwork for speech-capable robot research
Dr. Matthew Marge, from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory (ARL), led an international panel of artificial intelligence experts from industry, academia and government in releasing a first-of-its-kind report, Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Research Issues and Recommendations. Learn more.
DOT releases Report to Congress on GPS backup technologies
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) on January 15 released the final Complementary Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) and GPS Backup Technologies Demonstration Report to Congress. Learn more.
Diabetes drug may protect against COVID-19 mortality, NIH-funded study finds
Use of the drug metformin prior to a positive COVID-19 diagnosis appears to be protective against COVID-19 related death in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The findings were published January 13 by Frontiers in Endocrinology. Learn More.
Biden's national COVID-19 vaccination plan includes deploying FEMA, National Guard
President-elect Joe Biden on January 15 said he would deploy the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Guard to help set up COVID-19 vaccine clinics across the U.S. as part of an ambitious plan to get shots to millions of Americans. Learn More.