ETA – January 4 – Change in Agenda
Per email notice from PCAST this morning, the fracking presentation has been rescheduled for March as John Deutch had a scheduling conflict. New federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel and new Commerce Secretary John Bryson have been added to the agenda. As of this afternoon, no updated agenda is available, but I would expect the meeting to run a little longer as there is one more presentation scheduled than before.
Original Post – January 3
Apologies to Battlestar Galactica (if you don’t know why, are you sure you’re in the right place?).
The President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) will start 2012 as it did last year, with a meeting. The location is slightly different (The Carnegie Institution in Washington), but the timing is similar. According to the latest version of the agenda, the public portion will be brief, and start at 10 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, January 6. As is custom, there will be a webcast of the meeting, simply visit the PCAST website to find the link before the 10 a.m. start time.
There is no theme apparent from the meeting topics. There will be two briefings from outside parties. John Deutch, who chairs a report on hydraulic fracking from the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board, will speak first, followed by Bill Colglazier, the new Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. Colglazier will give an overview of his activities and responsibilities at the State Department. In the afternoon there is a period of public comment as well as an update on PCAST reports currently in progress.
If you do wish to attend in person, please register soon. Otherwise just check out the webcast on Friday, or in its archived form shortly thereafter.
