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NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the launch and docking of the next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 28. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are scheduled to launch at 4:31 p.m. EDT (2:31 a.m. Kazakh time May 29), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will ... read more

Personalized medicine and targeted therapies hold great potential to improve patient care and health care efficiency. At the Ninth Annual State of Personalized Medicine Luncheon hosted by the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PC), Janet Woodcock, M.D., Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will discuss how the FDA is dealing with the expanding field of personalized medicine, including the new program to encourage its development. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130517/DC16280LOGO) When: Tuesday, May 21, 201312:00 p.m. - ... read more

American Red Cross partners University of Phoenix(®) and MGM Resorts International have become founding members of the Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces (SAF) Giving Program, which helps support members of the U.S. military, veterans and their families. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090108/RedCrossLOGO) The program marks its first anniversary this month, closely coinciding with Armed Forces Day on May 18, when America honors and recognizes the critical contributions of our nation's service members. Members of the SAF Giving Program are corporations ... read more

The U.S. Small Business Administration and the W20 Group, a cluster of digital communications companies, will present Creating Content and Engaging for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the third topic in the five-topic social media webinar series. The webinar will help small business owners create content to broaden their reach and market their products using some of the most popular social media tools. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110909/DC65875LOGO) A survey conducted by CompTIA in 2012 found that that benefits of using social networking tools include: ... read more

Verizon's new head of public policy outlined the framework policymakers in Washington should consider in modernizing the nation's outdated telecom rules and regulations. Verizon believes that obsolete and unnecessary rules - some of which date back to the late 1800s, and were written for the railroads and to create the Interstate Commerce Commission - work against innovation and investment in the Internet ecosystem. Speaking at the Media Institute on Thursday (May 16), Craig Silliman, Verizon's senior vice president of ... read more

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today honored eighteen high-tech small businesses and three individuals in Washington, D.C., for the critical role they play in research and development for the government and for their success in driving innovation and creating new jobs. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110909/DC65875LOGO) The Tibbetts Awards, given by SBA, honor outstanding small businesses and individuals who participate in the SBA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. In addition, three past participants in SBIR who represent the very best of ... read more

A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The new research found glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, repositories of 1 percent of all land ice, lost an average of 571 trillion pounds (259 trillion kilograms) of mass every year during the six-year study period, making the oceans rise 0.03 inches (0.7 mm) per ... read more

The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit public-private partnership focused on helping all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online, today announced a new collaboration initiative with the LGBT Technology Partnership to encourage greater awareness about cybersecurity and safety issues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120911/DC71739LOGO) The LGBT Technology Partnership works to provide a centralized, national presence for the many LGBT organizations and groups that are impacted by telecommunications, cable and technology policies. The organization also serves ... read more

A respected independent research firm has confirmed the value that professional sports sponsorships provide the National Guard in recruiting and retaining high-quality soldiers. Alan Newman Research of Richmond, Va., found that 90 percent of Army National Guard soldiers who enlisted or re-enlisted since 2007 were exposed to the Guard through recruiting or retention materials featuring NASCAR cars and/or drivers. Of those who enlisted or re-enlisted during that time period, 85 percent agree that professional sports are beneficial to attracting ... read more

D.C.-based Audax Health™ was recognized today on the inaugural CNBC Disruptor 50 list of the top 50 private, venture-backed companies, “disrupting the status quo in ten traditional industries.” CNBC sought out privately-owned companies in traditional industries ranging from energy and ... read more

As the president of the Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO, the umbrella organization made up of the unions representing members at each of our four Naval Shipyards, I am glad to see some finality to the Congressional created crisis of sequestration in the decision of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. We wish to thank Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for his assistance in this matter. The May 14, 2013 announcement by The U.S. Department of Defense backs up what we've said all along, ... read more

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today lauds the House of Representatives for passing H.R. 701, a bill to speed the implementation of a key capital formation provision in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. H.R. 701 was introduced by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and passed ... read more

The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit public-private partnership focused on helping all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online, today announced a new collaboration initiative with the LGBT Technology Partnership to encourage greater awareness about cybersecurity and safety issues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120911/DC71739LOGO) The LGBT Technology Partnership works to provide a centralized, national presence for the many LGBT organizations and groups that are impacted by telecommunications, cable and technology policies. The organization also serves ... read more

For the first time, NetChoice has placed a state's entire Internet agenda - rather than a single piece of legislation - atop its iAWFUL list of bad Internet legislation. California's clutch of overreaching, innovation-stifling regulatory efforts earns the number one spot on the May 2013 iAWFUL with the Federal Internet sales tax effort trailing a close second. Over the past six months, California legislators aggressively pushed a series of bills that could dramatically stifle innovation, not just in California, but ... read more

Scytl, the world leader in secure online voting and election modernization today announces the use of Scytl’s e-Election Platform Online Voting module to support the online voting channel for the TNL Primaries 2013 in Bucharest taking place May 18th. The ... read more

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, one of the nation's top cancer research and prevention centers and pioneer of bone marrow and stem cell transplantation, today called on Congress to support restoring full funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which supports pioneering research that saves lives. Funding was recently cut due to sequestration. The U.S. Senate Subcommittee of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education today held a hearing for fiscal year 2014 budget request for NIH, during which ... read more

WidePoint Corporation (NYSE Mkt: WYY), a leading provider of secured, cloud-delivered, enterprise-wide, information technology-based managed mobility solutions, today announced financial results for the three months ending March 31, 2013. First Quarter 2013 Highlights -- Net revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, of $12.0 million reflected a 13% decrease from $13.7 million in last year's comparable period. -- ... read more

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface in the past decade, using images from the spacecraft to determine when the craters appeared. The 200-per-year planetwide estimate is a calculation based on the number found in a ... read more

Today, Consumer Federation of America (CFA), with the support of Visa Inc., is releasing new consumer education materials about "phishing," a serious fraud problem. Phishing is when crooks, pretending to be from well-known companies, organizations, or government agencies, contact individuals and trick them into revealing their Social Security numbers, financial account information, passwords, or other personal information. That information is then used to make unauthorized purchases, take over victims' accounts, open new accounts, get tax refunds and other government benefits, ... read more

HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, announced the winners of the Reducing Cancer Among Women of Color Challenge. A first-of-its-kind effort to address health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities, the winning apps will help women of color prevent and ... read more