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Acting Assistant Secretary Judith Garber Travels to Goa, India
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Washington, DC - Acting Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Judith Garber will travel to Goa, India, November 1-2.
U.S. Department of State Opens Applications for Boldline, an Accelerator Program for Public-Private Partnerships
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP), has opened the application process for the first Boldline P3 Accelerator, which will support and scale innovative public-private partnerships (P3s) from around the world. The competition is open to participants from the public, private, philanthropic, and civil society sectors who are addressing or seeking to address global issues through collaboration.
Governor Brown to Represent World’s States and Regions Committed to Climate Action at UN Climate Conference, European Union and the Vatican
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Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he will travel to Europe in November to deliver keynote remarks at a climate summit organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican; discuss clean energy collaboration with European Union leaders in Brussels, Belgium; address the State Parliament of the government of Baden-Württemberg – co-founder of the Under2 Coalition - in Stuttgart, Germany; convene top climate scientists from around the world in Oslo, Norway and serve as Special Advisor for States and Regions at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany. These events will take place from November 4-14, 2017.
FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Poultry Products Due To Possible Listeria Contamination
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert due to concerns that salads with chicken meat products produced by Ghiringhelli Specialty Foods, a Vallejo, California establishment, may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
NSF investments aim to address growing cybersecurity challenge
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Washington, DC - Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced $74.5 million in funding for foundational research and education that aims to address the growing cybersecurity challenge. This investment, through the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, is critical to achieving a safe, secure, resilient and trustworthy cyberspace, including associated critical infrastructure such as the energy grid and transportation systems.
Transition Plans for Key Establishment Schemes using Public Key Cryptography
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Washington, DC - NIST guidelines on approved public key key-establishments schemes are specified in the NIST SP 800-56 series of publications. While legacy key establishment schemes have been programmatically allowed for use by agencies in FIPS 140-validated modules, NIST SP 800-131A Rev. 1, Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths, specifies that only schemes specified in the SP 800-56 series will be allowed after 2017. However, there are widely used key-establishment schemes in protocols and applications that are not included in the current revisions of the SP 800-56 series publications.
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