Secrecy News: December 7, 2020
Secrecy News : December 7, 2020 View this email in your browser SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2020, Issue No. 16 December 7, 2020 Secrecy News Blog: https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ ** JASON SCIENCE ADVISORY PANEL ENDURES ** DOD LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS TO BE PUBLISHED JASON SCIENCE ADVISORY PANEL ENDURES Having survived a Pentagon attempt to terminate it, the JASON panel that performs independent technical assessments for government agencies now seems set for a period of relative stability. Last year Mike Griffin, then-Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering), abruptly refused to renew his Office's sponsorship of the JASONs, and the panel was temporarily taken over by the National Nuclear Security Administration under then-Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty. In response, Congress directed the Department of Defense to engage the JASONs "on an ongoing basis, on matters involving science, technology, and national security, i