JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center issued the following news: By Emily Mifsud, AFIMSC Public Affairs TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FLA - The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is fielding the Installation Resilience Operations Command and Control platform at five more bases after three years of successful initial testing here. AFIMSC awarded a $20 million contract to Simplesense, Inc., Nov. 18 to provide the low-rate i  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world's most powerful supercomputer. Listen on Apple or Spotify. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) with AMD's new Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), El C  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: LOS ANGELES (November 19, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing $800,000 in research funding to two Southern California small businesses to further develop and commercialize their environmental technologies. With these awards from EPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, businesses nationwide will be tackling complex challenges including destroying PFAS, c  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The civil money penalty marks OCR's 51st HIPAA Right of Access enforcement action to advance patient access to medical records Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced a $100,000 civil monetary penalty against Rio Hondo Community Mental Health Center ("Rio Hondo") in California. The penalty resolves an investigation into Rio H  more

PASADENA, California, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: A team of researchers identified this decrease in freshwater using observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. Reporting in Surveys in Geophysics, the   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: At first glance, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Public Affairs Officer Army Maj. Patrick Sorensen may appear to be a Caucasian male with a long, braided ponytail. Born to a Caucasian mother and Native American father in Northern California, Sorensen is a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grande Rode, Oregon, despite never living on a reservation. Sharing his heritage, the A  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The White House issued the following news release: NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Benjamin J. Cheeks, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, vice Gonzalo P. Curiel, retired. Serena Raquel Murillo, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, vice Cormac J. Carney, retired. * * * Original text here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/11/18/n  more

PETERSON AFB, Colorado, Nov. 20 -- The North American Aerospace Defense Command issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will conduct a planned live-fly air defense exercise near Riverside, California, today. NORAD F-16s and general aviation aircraft from the Civil Air Patrol will participate in the exercise. Aircraft will operate at approximately 8,500 feet and will likely be visible to the public. NORAD routinely conducts air defen  more