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NSF’s New AI Education Funding: Strategic Impacts for STEM Workforce & K-12 Policy

NSF announced two Dear Colleague Letters and ...

Supplements target existing K-12 AI/CS grante...

The solicitation funds research on how AI can...

Key risks include limited scale given funding...

NOAA ProTech 2.0: What $8B Small-Business-Focused Contract Means for Weather, Oceans & Satellites

Americas Policy Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

NOAA’s ProTech is an ~$8B multiple-award IDIQ...

ProTech 2.0 shifts heavily toward small-busin...

Recent awards include 20 Weather-domain firms...

The strategy broadens innovation and supplier...

UK-US Trade Deal Slashes Aerospace Tariffs, Cuts Car Export Levies—but Steel Stakes Remain

Europe Policy Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing

Effective 30 June 2025, a UK-US trade deal re...

UK car tariffs fall from 27.5% to 10% under a...

Rolls-Royce and other aerospace firms could s...

UK steel and aluminium still face 25% U.S. ta...

US Freezes Child Care Funding Amid Fraud Probes: Impacts For States, Providers & Minorities

Americas Policy Social Assistance

HHS is rolling back parts of a 2024 child car...

After fraud allegations in Minnesota went vir...

The new rules apply to all states and require...

Mississippi, which received about $170 millio...

NYC FY 2027 Discretionary Funding: Key Deadlines & Nonprofit Eligibility Rules

Americas Policy Public Administration

NYC Council FY27 discretionary expense fundin...

Expense funding is limited to eligible nonpro...

Capital and cultural capital requests use sep...

The Council is testing reforms such as faster...

UK Deregulation Push: Reeves Eases Basel 3.1 & Ring-Fence Rules to Supercharge Growth

Europe Policy Public Administration

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is pushing to cut UK...

The Bank of England’s PRA will deliver most B...

The package also aims to boost retail investi...

Ring-fence reform is the most contentious ele...

South Korea’s Game Plan: Building a KRW 40 Trillion Venture Market by 2030

Asia Policy Other Investment Pools and Funds

South Korea is rolling out the “Four Venture ...

Targets for 2030 include a KRW 40T annual ven...

Key rule changes extend investment timelines,...

Execution risks remain around scaling exits, ...

California’s Energy-Climate Package: Cap-and-Invest, Offsets Tightening & Risk Ahead

Americas Policy Utilities

Governor Newsom signed a bipartisan energy-an...

The laws commit at least $60B to electricity-...

Companion measures aim to stabilize fuel and ...

Markets get longer-term policy certainty and ...

BGE Rate Increases 2026: Maryland PSC’s Trade-Offs in Oversight vs. Affordability

Americas Policy Utilities

Maryland regulators approved BGE delivery-rat...

The PSC cut BGE’s 2023 cost-recovery request ...

Consumer advocates and Baltimore leaders argu...

BGE says inflation, storm costs, supply-chain...

Xcel Colorado’s Natural Gas Bill Could Climb ~11–13%: What’s Driving the Increase and What It Means for Ratepayers

Americas Policy Utilities

Xcel Energy filed for a $190 million Colorado...

If approved, average residential bills rise a...

The request covers $101 million in past safet...

Critics warn back-to-back gas and electric fi...