Office of the Secretary December 30, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Findings of Research Misconduct
Document Number: 2013-31160
Type: Notice
Date: 2013-12-30
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary
Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has taken final action in the following case: Baoyan Xu, M.D., Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health: Based on allegations made by readers of a published paper,\1\ additional review by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and ORI, and a limited admission by the Respondent that ``some better looking strips were repeatedly used as representatives for several times [sic],'' ORI found that Dr. Baoyan Xu, formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow, Hematology Branch, Systems Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, and currently at the Institute of Infectious Diseases, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chonqing, China, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by intramural research at NHLBI, NIH.
Announcement of Competition Under the America COMPETES Act
Document Number: 2013-31072
Type: Notice
Date: 2013-12-30
Agency: Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary
DARPA announces the Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), a prize competition under 15 U.S.C. 3719, the America COMPETES Act. The CGC will utilize a series of competition events to test the abilities of fully automated cyber defense systems. The CGC seeks to engender a new generation of autonomous cyber defense capabilities that combine the speed and scale of automation with reasoning abilities exceeding those of human experts.
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