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  • H.R. 7630, also known as the Accelerating Networking, Cyberinfrastructure, and Hardware for Oceanic Research Act or the ANCHOR Act, aims to enhance the cybersecurity and telecommunications capabilities of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet. The bill requires the Director of the...

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    The ANCHOR Act is a plan to make the computers and internet on research ships stronger and safer, so scientists can do their work better and call for help if they need it. The NSF (a big science group) is going to work with other people to make it happen and tell everyone how it's going after two years.

  • H.R. 10475, also known as the "Good Documentation and Enforcement of Estate Deeds Act of 2023" or "Good DEED Act," directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to create a grant program to combat deed fraud. The program will provide competitive grants to eligible states and large...

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    The Good DEED Act is trying to stop people from stealing house papers by giving money to places that help catch these bad guys and help people who got tricked. They want to make sure everyone knows when someone tries to cheat with these papers, and they set rules on how much money should go to help people and to buy tools to catch the cheaters.

  • H.R. 7630, also known as the "Accelerating Networking, Cyberinfrastructure, and Hardware for Oceanic Research Act" or the "ANCHOR Act," seeks to improve the cybersecurity and telecommunications systems of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet. The bill requires the Director of the...

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    H.R. 7630 is a plan to make the boats that help scientists study the ocean safer from hackers and better at sending information. The people in charge have to work with others to figure out the best way to do this and check how they're doing in a couple of years.

  • H.R. 7630 aims to enhance the cybersecurity and telecommunications infrastructure of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet. The bill, known as the β€œANCHOR Act,” mandates the Director of the National Science Foundation to submit a comprehensive plan within a year to Congress. This...

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    The ANCHOR Act is about making sure the ships that help scientists do research in the ocean are safe from bad guys on the internet and have good ways to talk to each other. It asks some very smart people to make a plan to keep the ships' computers safe and working well, and they have to tell this plan to the people in charge within a year.