>>$2 million for the Nanomanufacturing of multifunctional sensors for the University of Massachusetts Lowell.<<<<
This needs to be looked at MORE closely. Clinton hid a large number of items under nanotechnology that is bringing us many nanny state initiatives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Excerpt:
Before Bill Clinton left office, he authorized 2001 an 84% increase in the government’s investment in nanotechnology research and development, National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) and made it a top priority.
What has not been publicly realized is the meaning of this initiative and the various components that are encompassed.
(snip)
Focus Areas at a Glance (28)
1. Access to Quality Health Services
2. Arthritis, Osteoporosis and Chronic Back Conditions
3. Cancer
4. Chronic Kidney Disease
5. Diabetes
6. Disability and Secondary Conditions
7. Educational and Community-Based Programs
8. Environmental Health
9. Family Planning
10. Food Safety
11. Health Communication
12. Heart Disease and Stroke
13. HIV
14. Immunizations and Infectious Diseases
15. Injury and Violence Prevention
16. Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
17. Medical Product Safety
18. Mental Health and Mental Disorders
19. Nutrition and Overweight
20. Occupational Safety and Health
21. Oral Health
22. Physical Activity and Fitness
23. Public Health Infrastructure
24. Respiratory Diseases
25. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
26. Substance Abuse
27. Tobacco Use
28. Vision and Hearing
When an association, state, or company applies for the grants to fund these initiatives, in turn they authorize a Freedom of Information Release to all their data. This is a sample of the data collected from a grant application. All the data requirements are the same, the only difference is the partnered agency that is acting as a liaison for relaying the data. Example, this one below is using the USDA as the partnered liaison. If this was a hospital application, it would say the CDC.
More at thread
U Mass Lowell is the renamed Lowell Tech. It does not surprise me that there is nanotech research being performed there. Quite frankly, the top half of the main post list looks pretty solid. It is when you get ot “other initiatives” that it beaks down into touchy feely stuff. $240M in cancer research under defense?
Just a lot more stuff to watch us, or perhaps, do much worse.