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Tales Of Our Times: Notorious Smogs In Donora And Desert Parks Keyed Air Research

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Tales Of Our Times

By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water, Inc.

Our citizens group learned the ways of air issues, inside and out. Large issues are part history, law, science, business, and emotions. Each of these has its own jargon, which impedes the exchange of information. Clean air made headway after events helped break these barriers. A notorious case was Donora.

Donora was a hilly town of industrious folks on a horseshoe bend in the Monongahela River 24 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Donora and nearby Webster were home to U.S. Steel  Corporation’s Donora Zinc Works Read More

Heinrich Presses Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm On Housing Shortages In Los Alamos, Questions Proposal To Build Transmission Line Through Caja Del Rio, Emphasizes Need To Invest In American-Made Grid Components, Highlights New Mexico’s Potential To Lead In Geothermal

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VIDEO: Heinrich questions Secretary Granholm at Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to review the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Budget Request for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) pressed Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Jill Hruby on a number Read More

United States And European Commission Make Joint Statement On Enhancing Radioactive Source Security

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NNSA’s Jeffrey Chamberlin

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the European Commission (EC) made a Joint Statement on Enhancing Radioactive Source Security this week at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) International Conference on Nuclear Security.

This Joint Statement highlights the importance of the security of radioactive sources, the need to strengthen security to prevent the use of these materials in acts of terrorism, and builds upon existing U.S. and European Union (EU) Read More

AFRL, NASA Unlock Innovation, Propel Universities

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Air Force Research Laboratory staff stand with university students and their professors from a variety of academic institutions across the nation in front of Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Merrit Island, Fla. in May 2023. AFRL and NASA announced their collaboration with eight universities for a new Mission Concept Program that ran from May 15 to July 28, 2023. The program, sponsored by AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate, was held under the University Nanosatellite Program, which started in 1999 and has collaborated with 53 universities since its inception. Courtesy/ Read More

Catch Of The Week: Dell Data Breach

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Data breaches are never good, but are becoming increasingly common in today’s digital world.  Cyber security is frequently an afterthought. It’s not important until … it is!

Earlier this month Dell notified users who had been impacted by this data breach, stating that information accessed in the breach included customer names, physical addresses and “Dell hardware and order information, including service tag, item description, date of order and related warranty information.” Dell did not provide additional details on the Read More

New Mexico Economic Development Department Approves $1.3 Million To Assist 11 Companies Train Employees

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EDD News:

          • State funding assists in the training of up to 116 New Mexico employees

SANTA FE –  The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) board approved 11 New Mexico companies for funding to support workforce training for 116 new and current employees, Acting Economic Development Department (EDD) Cabinet Secretary Mark Roper has announced.

Twelve awards were announced for eleven organizations, including one amended and two Step Up awards. The original Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) reimburses companies a portion of the cost to train new New Mexico employees. Changes in the economy Read More

Verus® Research Announces $2.5 Million Science And Technology Contract To Support Defense Department’s Test Resource Management Center

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VERUS RESEARCH News:

ALBUQUERQUE — Verus® Research, a New Mexico-based team of scientists and engineers specializing in advanced research and development, announces the award of a $2.5 million science and technology contract with the Defense Department’s Test Resource Management Center (TRMC).

The 18-month agreement will support TRMC’s need for high-power microwave (HPM) attack instrumentation on medium unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

“Verus Research is honored to receive a new HPM contract that continues our research and development work with the Defense Department and leverages Read More

Catch Of The Week: Cyber Attack Cripples Ascension Healthcare Systems

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Currently in America your ambulance is most likely to be turned away from an Ascension Healthcare hospital because:

          1. You don’t have insurance, and they are going to drop you off in a WalMart parking lot instead;
          2. No money? No emergency room!;
          3. Aliens kidnapped all the doctors; or
          4. Ransomware attack!

If you guessed “4. Ransomware attack”, congrats!

Ascension is one of the largest private healthcare systems in the US, ranking second in the country by number of hospitals in 2019. They have a presence in 19 states and Washington, D.C., with Read More

Heinrich And Colleagues Address Release Of Bipartisan Roadmap For Artificial Intelligence Policy In U.S. Senate

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U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, co-chair and co-founder of the Senate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus, hosted a press conference Wednesday with his colleagues on the Bipartisan AI Working Group, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), following the release of their roadmap for artificial intelligence policy in the U.S. Senate.

A one-pager detailing the roadmap can be found here.

The AI roadmap can be found here.

The roadmap follows months of discussion, hundreds of stakeholder meetings, and nine Read More

State Awards $3.4 Million In Competitive Funding To Seven New Mexico Companies In Inaugural Round Of Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program

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Acting EDD Cabinet Secretary Mark Roper

EDD News:

ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), through its Office of Strategy, Science and Technology (OSST), has awarded $3.4 million in competitive grant funding to seven New Mexico companies in the inaugural round of the Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program.

First announced in September 2023, the New Mexico Advanced Energy Award Pilot Program is a competitive state-funded grant that awards non-dilutive funds to proposals in advanced energy innovation and commercialization from New Mexico companies developing Read More