President Obama will announce reforms to the U.S. export control system today according to a fact sheet released by the White House.   The reforms are "a major step forward in the Administration's efforts to fundamentally reform the export control system" and "will help strengthen our national security" according to the release.

The National Research Council (NRC) published the new Decadal Survey on astronomy and astrophysics (Astro2010) earlier this month.  Now it has released the reports of the nine panels that fed into the steering committee's deliberations.   Five were science panels; four were programmatic.   All the panel reports are combined into a single volume available from the National Academies Press.