From left to right: the candidate of the NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, the candidate of the DOE under the nominated to the Sciences Darío Gil and the candidate administrator of the NNSA, Brandon Williams.
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Nominated top doe and nasa to testify
The Senate will examine a series of appointments by President Donald Trump for management positions at the Ministry of Energy, NASA and other agencies this week. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a audience
Thursday, on the appointments of the president of the National Science Board, Darío Gil, to be under-secretary to energy for science and innovation and the lawyer, Preston Griffith, to be a distinct energy under-secretary. During the Biden Administration, the science under Security supervised the Doe Office of Science and various R&D offices with applied energy, while the other under-secretary supervised the demonstration and deployment programs of energy technologies funded through the recent infrastructure legislation. However, the Trump administration can save these roles. The Armed Services Committee will hold a audience
On Tuesday on the appointment of former representative Brandon Williams (R-DY) to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration of Doe as well as three appointments for the roles of the Ministry of Defense.
The candidate for the administrator of NASA, Jared Issamman, will testify on Wednesday audience
by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. ISSACMAN is a CEO of billionaire technology which has ordered two private orbital missions led by SpaceX. Isaacman has criticized the aspects of NASA human exploration programs in recent years, calling Space Launch System Rocket “Questioned.”
He also drew attention to these costs raised in light of the Cups proposed by NASA at the Chandra X -ray observatory, asking the agency to fully finance the telescope. The appointment of Isaacman was rented
by various stakeholders in the space industry while drawing critical
From certain conservative and activist groups because of its donations to democratic campaigns and the diversity initiatives of the companies with which it was involved. Also Wednesday, the committee should vote on advance
The appointment of Arielle Roth managed national telecommunications and information administration. Thursday, the banking, housing and urban affairs committee will hold a audience
On the appointment of the former staff member of the CCP Committee of the Chamber, Landon Heid, be assistant trade secretary for the administration of exports to the Office of Industry and Security, which is responsible for the development and implementation of export regulations.
Scientists challenge grant layoffs before the courts
Researchers are a legal action after the National Institutes of Health have dismissed hundreds of research subsidies in the last month. Four scientists joined the American Public Health Association and two other organizations in pursuit
The NIH, alleging that the reason given for cancellations – that research does not support the agency’s priorities – is arbitrary and unjustified and therefore illegal. In addition, the trial indicates that the NIH has surpassed its legal authority by ignoring the mandates of the Congress to finance research on health disparities and approaching the under-representation of certain groups in the medical field. The trial aims to restore funding for affected researchers and prevent the NIH from continuing to reduce rewards in this way, according to a press release
of the American American Liberties Union.
Disputes against specific cuts at university are also underway. Last month, the American Association of University Professors brought legal action on behalf of members who are also professors from Columbia University, who is about to lose $ 400 million in funding, including more than $ 250 million in NIH grants. The Trump administration has targeted several Ivy League universities for subsidy strokes,
Including the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Princeton University and more recently Brown University.
Senators have probe the reorganization of HHS in the midst of significant layoffs and rehabilitation
The leaders of the Senate health committee called
The Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to testify on Thursday on his reorganization of the department, which led to more than 10,000 layoffs and reduces the number of HHS divisions from 28 to 15. Senators qualified the movements of Kennedy as “proposed” reorganization, suggesting that they can question certain changes. Dismissals included more than 1,000 employees at the National Institutes of Health, including the deletion
of four directors of the Institute who were career civil servants. Some of these directors and other HHS employees described have been offered reallocations to the Indian health service, which would force them to locate themselves in more remote regions of the country.
In One Nih Institute, ten main investigators were only dismissed to be brought back a few days later, Science reported.
Some have been informed that a computer or coding error had led to their accidental endings. Kennedy Tell to journalists
that it expected that 20% of layoffs across the department would be made by mistake. “The staff who should not have been cut was cut. We reinstate them. And that was always part of the plan. Part of the Doge, we talked about it from the start, is that we are going to make 80% of cuts, but 20% of them will have to be restored, because we will make mistakes,” he said. However, later statement
suggests that HHS does not intend to reverse layoffs to this degree. Meanwhile, the Government Ministry of Efficiency has led HHS Reduce contract expenses
from 35% to each of its divisions.
Other departments are now released deferred resignations before power reductions. Employees of the Ministry of Energy have until noon on Tuesday
To respond to the offer, the staff of the Department of Internal Staff A until Wednesday,
and the staff of the Ministry of Defense has until Next Monday.
House examines the American-Chinese competition in AI models
The Chamber’s Science Committee will hold a audience
Tuesday on the AI models of the Chinese company Deepseek, which attracted attention at the beginning of this year when its R1 model occurred comparable to the models developed by the United States while being apparently more profitable and using less advanced fleas. The hearing will explore
The state of competition in open -weight AI models, the role that American technology has played in the progress of Deepseek models and the federal role in the support of R&D of the private sector. The witnesses are Adam Thierer, a principal researcher at the R Street Institute; Gregory Allen, director of AI and advanced technologies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Julia Stoyanovich, computer teacher and director of the Center for Responsible AI at New York University; And Tim Fist, director of emerging technological policy at the Institute of Progress.
The Chamber’s Energy and Trade Committee will also hold audience
Wednesday focused on
How the federal government can facilitate developments in the computing power and the modeling of AI, including by producing more electricity and new generation chips. The witnesses are the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of the AI scale, Alexandr Wang, the director of technology of Micron, Manish Bhatia, and David Turk, who was assistant energy secretary under the Biden administration. The hearing follows a request information
of the Ministry of Energy on the construction of data centers and new energy infrastructure on DoE land. RFI identifies 16 sites under study.
Also on our radar
- President Trump appointed
The expert in hypersonia Joseph Jewell will be deputy defense secretary for science and technology and Michael Dodd be
Deputy Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies. - The National Security Commission for emerging biotechnology will present its final report in a house audience
Tuesday and a public summit
Two days later. The group was created by the congress in 2022 and published a interim report
Last year, warning that the American risks are late on China absent from actions such as the increase in funding for Biotechnology R&D. - President Trump published a executive decree
Last week, the establishment of the American investment accelerator, which will supervise the flea program office and aim at investments in the United States by helping investors navigating regulations and training research partnerships with national laboratories. - The management contract for Jefferson Lab will remain in place for another year after the DOE has canceled the contract awards under the Biden administration. Doe said in February that the solicitation of the Biden era was not aligning the priorities of the Trump administration. The department announcement
Last week, the current contract will be extended until May 2026 and a new competition to start
in the third quarter of 2025. - The CERN released a study
Last week, on the feasibility of the future Circular Collider project, a potential successor to the great collision of Hadrons.