This week – AIP.ORG

Payments of NSF grants temporarily not derogated

The National Science Foundation resumed to make payments
Sunday after a judge order
This temporarily interrupted President Donald Trump’s frost on federal subsidy funding. The frost caused a large alarm
Among the beneficiaries of the NSF last week on how to pay the researchers and maintain essential equipment. Although the frost has been lifted, NSF continues to examine its grant programs to identify if they are subject to Trump’s decrees, such as its ban on supporting diversity, actions and inclusion initiatives. When asked if the NSF can terminate an active sentence that could be affected by the decrees, the agency said on a FAQ page
that it “cannot take measures to delay or stop the payment of active awards based solely on the real or potential non-compliance of decrees”, but that the order of the court allows him to take measures for others Reasons, such as the violation of the agency’s violation of granting terms and conditions. However, in anticipation of agencies blocking support for Dei’s activities, various universities
Has suspended research funded by the federal government linked to Dei and expect to lose funding associated with diversity for staff.

The Chamber Science Committee resumes work with new chairs

The Chamber’s Science Committee will hold its first meeting of the new congress on Wednesday. After adoption
Committee rules and Surveillance plan,
The panel will contain a audience
On “Ensuring American world leadership” in science and technology. The witnesses are Heather Wilson, president of the University of Texas in El Paso and former secretary of the US Air Force; Walter Copan, Vice-President of Research and Technology Transfer to Colorado School of Mines and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the first administration of President Trump; Sudip Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; And Samuel Hammond, chief economist of the for American Innovation Foundation, a technological thinking group. This will be the first meeting of the committee chaired by representative Brian Babin (R-TX) and with a new list of members, including New sub-comity chairs.

The trade candidate promises to keep the Noaa intact, rents Nist

The candidate to direct the trade department, Howard Lunick, assured the Democratic senators during a appointment audience
Last week, he will not try to break the national ocean and atmospheric administration. “I have no interest in separating it. It is not on my program, “said Lodnick as a testimony to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transport Committee. Lutnick also said he disagreed with the proposals in the Conservative Plan 2025 project
To “dismantle” the Noaa and eliminate or privatize many of its operations.

The audience also addressed the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the chairman of the Ted Cruz Committee (R-TX) criticizing the taking into account of the climate change agency in the advice related to artificial intelligence. When Cruz asked if the advice would be “based on scientific technical standards and not simply a Trojan horse for social policy or the importation of the EU technological agenda,” said Lutnick. More broadly, Lutnik praised the agency and its work to shed light on the development of standards. “I think Nist has some of the greatest scientists in the world. … I think that standards are the right model – as I said, the way we have done cybersecurity, which is the golden stallion and everyone in the world follows our model – I think that We should try to have a light model like that in AI.

The Committee will vote on Wednesday
To advance the appointment of Lungick to the complete Senate for examination. The Committee will also plan to advance several bills linked to the STEM of the previous congress which have been reintroduced, notably the Tornado Act, the Fire Ready Nation Act, the strengthening of support for the American Manufacturing Act and a bill on Research on harmful flowers of algae.

A famous International Year of Quantum S&T

The United Nations educational, scientific, scientific and cultural organization International year of quantum science and technology
(Iyq) with a ceremony
In Paris on Tuesday. The United Nations General Assembly said 2025 as the year for IYQ last summer. The designation aims to increase public awareness of quantum research applications, to encourage international cooperation in the field and to increase research capacity between developing countries, among other objectives. Federal agencies participating in the American quantum initiative to plan
Organize various events related to the IYQ this year. The events affiliated to Iyq will be Posted here.
The IYQ coordination is led by UNESCO and the American Physical Society. (APS is a company member of AIP.)

Also on our radar

• The assignments for the credits of the undercomitten Senate were announcement
  Last week. Among The Changes, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) replaced Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) as the Ranking Member of the Commerce-Justice-Science Subcommittee That Covers Nasa and Nist, Both of Which Have Major Facilities in his state.
• The senate vote
  To confirm Chris Wright as an energy secretary tonight. Wright’s appointment has obtained the support of Democrats, especially from
  Member of the Energy and Natural Resources Resources Committee, Martin Heinrich (D-NM).
• The US-Chinese Economic Economic Revision and Security Commission will hold a audience
  Thursday on technology, innovation and manufacturing competition with China.
• The emergence of the Deepseek IA model developed by a Chinese company using Less and lower quality chips
  That those created by American AI developers have triggered many of their actions to tumble last week with those of the main flea manufacturers. He also prompted Bipartisian calls to stricter export orders on the chips of Home
  And Senate.
  
• The National Round Table of Sciences, Technology and Security has published a Plantural report
  Last week.