Remote Sensing Technology: Economic and Consumer Hurdles Exist Despite Technical Improvement — The creation of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) in 1996 was to have streamlined the formidable tasks associated with collecting, managing and processing remote sensing images. It was to have allowed more people to take advantage of more high-quality images affordably. Has NIMA achieved its initial goals? [More]

Shaping Public Policy: 2001 IEEE-USA Congressional Fellows — Three IEEE members have left their hometowns and headed to Washington, D.C. for the year to assist Congress with a host of critical technology issues, including aviation safety, national electric restructuring, and renewable energy... [More]

ACTION ALERT — IEEE-USA Needs You!  Write to Capitol Hill to Support the Portman-Cardin Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act (H.R. 10) Today! [More]

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