Government Matters

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Government expenditure oversight, Carbon-free electricity goal – February 24, 2022

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Updates on the James Webb Space Telescope   Dr. Christyl Johnson, deputy director for technology and research investments at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, details what the James Webb Space Telescope will enable people to see that the Hubble Telescope can’t    Coordinating oversight of large government expenditure programs  Glenn Fine, nonresident fellow for the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution, discusses fraud, waste and abuse in Covid-19 spending and recommendations to mitigate similar problems in future programs    Challenges of creating a carbon-free electric grid  Jonathan Moch, postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, discusses what it will take to achieve the president’s goal of completely carbon-free electricity by 2035 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.