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The director of the National Science Foundation announced his departure Thursday after five years at the agency.  In a brief public statement, Sethuraman Panchanathan said he was stepping down effective Thursday and called it “an honor and privilege to serve as the Director of NSF.” He also informed employees at NSF in an internal memorandum viewed by FedScoop. “I believe I have done all I can to advance the critical mission of the agency and feel that it is time for me to pass the baton to new leadership,” Panchanathan said in the public statement. Panchanathan assumed the role as NSF director during the first administration of President Donald Trump and carried on under Joe Biden. Under his leadership, the department launched its 27 AI institutes, began its Technology, Innovation, and Partnership Directorate, which has funded regional hubs for innovation across the U.S., and started the National AI Research Resource pilot project. His departure comes soon after the agency began terminating grants that didn’t comply with the priorities of the current administration, including items related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation and disinformation.

A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers are pushing for the reauthorization of the law that launched the Technology Modernization Fund. Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., on Thursday reintroduced the Modernizing Government Technology Act, which largely mimics legislation introduced during the last Congress, just with an updated sunset date of 2032 instead of 2031. The bill revises and adds some additional requirements to the original Modernizing Government Technology Act, which passed in 2017. Connolly said in a press release that the reauthorization bill is a “welcome show of support for the [TMF] and the critical goal that drove its creation — bringing federal IT into the 21st century.” The bill looks to increase the TMF’s effectiveness by creating new reporting requirements for the federal chief information officer and agency CIOs, requiring a list of high-risk legacy IT systems that are used, operated or maintained by the agency, according to the bill’s text.

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NSF director Panchanathan resigns; Bill to reauthorize TMF would extend program to 2032

The National Science Foundation is taking steps to slash its workforce, including reducing the number of senior executive service roles as well as temporary and non-federal roles, according to an internal memo to staff obtained by FedScoop. The memo was emailed to staff Friday afternoon by Chief Management Officer Micah Cheatham. It also included plans to require in-person work starting June 16 and the elimination of the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM in the next two months, which it announced publicly Friday as well. Details of the agency’s workforce reduction plans come after its termination of hundreds of grants that don’t align with President Donald Trump’s policies, such as those that included diversity, equity and inclusion activities. Amid those actions, Sethuraman Panchanathan resigned his position as NSF’s director. Panchanathan had been appointed by Trump during the president’s first term.  Per the memo, NSF began on Thursday a reduction-in-force of its senior executive service workforce, which is a designation for federal senior leadership and management officials. Of the 143 total SES roles — including vacant positions — that NSF had on Jan. 20, just 59 are needed under the agency’s “new organizational structure and proposed future year budgets.”

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation last week that would scale back the Transportation Security Administration’s facial recognition program, giving travelers the right to not have their faces scanned when passing through airports. The lawmakers say their push for the Traveler Privacy Protection Act comes as the Department of Homeland Security component seeks to expand the use of facial recognition at hundreds of airports. Specifically, the bill would require the TSA to clearly inform passengers of their right to not participate in the DHS facial recognition program and bar the agency from providing worse treatment to passengers that choose not to participate. The legislation would also forbid the TSA from storing traveler facial recognition data indefinitely and from using the technology to target people or conduct mass surveillance. Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., John Kennedy, R-La., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., are co-sponsors of the bill. 

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NSF announces RIF plans; Senators want TSA to scale back facial recognition at airports

A re-imagining of From Now On made on commission, to give it an a more underwater and electronic feeling. Original song by Toby Fox.

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/YaQ15gwU4bs
Download .0cc (made in 0cc-Famitracker 0.3.15.3): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BEa5Su0ocaGxgUATcLCuv4dRbimcd8j_/view?usp=sharing
Download .nsf (visualized in NSFPlay Synthesia): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UgCb1-t64c09znin9jHXbnIS4PwuqHQj/view?usp=sharing

This song is Creative Commons licensed. You can use it for anything you please with attribution!

[Deltarune Chapter 4] From Now On (Patashu's 8-Bit Remix)

A podcast covering the latest news & trends facing top government leaders on topics such as technology, management & workforce. Hosted by Billy Mitchell on FedScoop and released Monday-Friday.

I currently write all my music in Famitracker, which can only create music possible on a real NES (or an expansion chip, like VRC7 or N163) and exports to NSF and WAV: http://www.famitracker.com


=== FAMITRACKER TUTORIAL===
How to get from opening the program to a simple loop:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lqGpO_8sqY

A video series by Explod2A03 that explores all the most common and powerful techniques in NES music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpMUE9S1ll8&feature=channel&list=UL (highly recommended!)

How to make interesting instruments in Famitracker: http://famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=3911&pid=39455#39455 and study other people's ftms! (Study mine if you like!)

Nsfimport dumps the frame by frame data of an .nsf into Famitracker so you can study it and reproduce anything you hear in an NES game: http://rainwarrior.ca/projects/nes/nsfimport.html

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My youtube channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/patashu

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You have permission to use any of my tracks under the CC license. Just let me know what for and attribute me!

New tracks tagged #nsf