Government Matters – Highlights from 2022 – December 30, 2022
Government Matters looks back at some of the top moments of 2022
Government Matters looks back at some of the top moments of 2022
Starting Jan. 1, the VA will start processing claims under the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough explains that the PACT ACT makes it so veterans who served in Southwest Asia, were exposed to toxins and have certain conditions will be assumed to have gotten said condition while […]
Starting Jan. 1, the VA will start processing claims under the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act.
North Korea launched at least 65 ballistic missiles in 2022 – a huge jump from last year. Kim Jong Un in 2021 made a list of things he wanted to accomplish, which is slowly being checked off, Soo Kim, policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, explained. A poll came out that said 70% of South […]
Brian Spears, deputy model lead for inertial confinement fusion at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, discusses the lab’s recent success with creating a nuclear fusion reaction. On Dec. 13, the Department of Energy announced that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory generated a fusion reaction that gave off more energy than was needed to create it. […]
On Dec. 2, the Pentagon unveiled the B-21 Raider, after years of keeping its development a secret. It’s the U.S.’s first new bomber aircraft in over 30 years. The B-21 is “radically different” from the B-2 bomber, and has been modernized for the 21st century, Maj. Gen. Douglas Raaberg (USAF Ret.), executive vice president of […]
Maj. Gen. Douglas Raaberg (USAF Ret.) with the Air & Space Forces Association on the B-21 Raider, Brian Spears with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on nuclear fusion and Soo Kim with the RAND Corporation on North Korea
Jill Aitoro, senior vice president of content strategy for CyberRisk Alliance, and Ross Wilkers, senior staff reporter for Washington Technology, discuss the biggest federal tech and cyber news of 2022 and the issues to watch for 2023. The war on Ukraine showed how potential cyber warfare can evolve and how expansive it can become, Aitoro […]
