WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Dec. 4: Yesterday, President Trump signed into law Portman's bipartisan Information Technology Modernization Centers of Excellence Program Act , bringing the total number of laws authored or co-authored by Senator Portman in this administration to 60. After getting 68 bills signed into law during his tenure with the Obama administration, yesterday's bill signing is just the latest in a long line of accomplishme  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following statement on Dec. 4: * * * Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report includes $35 million for an Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP) project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The ERCIP funds projects that improve the energy resilience and energy and water efficiency at DOD installations. This intelligence facility c  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following statement on Dec. 4: * * * Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report includes $23.5 million in funding for a hydrant fuel system for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This project will replace the aging fuel system and will bring it into compliance with DoD's standards. This funding will help to facilitate   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) announced that the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report includes language enabling United States Military Museums to accept gifts of real property that have a specific name attached to the donation. "I am glad to see that the FY 2021 NDAA conference report includes language enabling military museums to accept gifts of real property that bear a speci  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following news release on Dec. 4: Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act conference report includes their bipartisan provision to support cybersecurity initiatives between the Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. academic institutions. Specifically, this amendment would require DoD to report on their efforts to work with consortia of academic researc  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Dec. 5 (TNSJou) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news release: The crystalline solid BaTiS3 (barium titanium sulfide) is terrible at conducting heat, and it turns out that a wayward titanium atom that exists in two places at the same time is to blame. The discovery, made by researchers from Caltech, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was pub  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued the following news: A member of the 445th Airlift Wing is headed to drone pilot school in early 2021, following eight years of service to the 445th Security Forces Squadron. During the squadron's 2018 deployment to Kuwait, Staff Sgt. Jalen McMahan, fire team member, completed accelerated online classwork toward a master's degree in justice administration. He balanced his course load with the demands  more