WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce issued the following news release: A Key Part of the NSTC, this California Facility Will Drive the Future of Semiconductor Innovation and Collaboration Today, the Department of Commerce and Natcast, the operator of the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), announced Sunnyvale, California as the expected location for the CHIPS for America Design and Collaboration Facility (DCF), an NSTC Facility. The DCF will play an important r  more

MONTEREY, California, Nov. 2 -- The Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security issued the following story: Nearly a decade and a half after it was published, Center for Homeland Defense and Security Master's Program alum Cynthia Renaud's work on critical incident response continues to serve as the basis for valued law enforcement and other first responder training and policy. Renaud (Master's cohort 0901/0902), a veteran law enforcement official who now serves as the   more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 1 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: Honorees include the agency's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, the Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, and Europa Clipper. As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter,  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: The STEM San Joaquin Conference, formerly known as San Joaquin Expanding Your Horizons, invited students grades 6-9 for its annual event on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. The conference is co-sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of the Pacific, with coordination provided by a dedicated team of  more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 2 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: The tiny, potato-shaped moon Phobos, one of two Martian moons, cast a silhouette as it passed in front of the Sun, creating an eye in Mars' sky. From its perch on the western wall of Mars' Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover recently spied a "googly eye" peering down from space. The pupil in this celestial gaze is the Martian moon Phobos, and the iris is our Sun. Captured by the rover's M  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (TNSres) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comment on the draft supplemental environmental impact statement for renewing the operating licenses of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, in Avila Beach, California. The draft report contains the NRC staff's evaluation and preliminary conclusion that no environmental impacts would preclude renewing the licenses for an additional   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 -- The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. issued the following news release on Nov. 1, 2024: * * * Marine Carpenters Fund Averts Insolvency and Reduction of Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance * * * The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Pension Plan of the Marine Carpenters Pension Fund (Marine Carpenters Fund). The plan, based   more