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U.S. Department of Education`s mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. ED is dedicated to: • Establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds. • Collecting data on America`s schools and disseminating research. • Focusing national attention on key educational issues. • Prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of more than $8 billion, NSF is the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America`s colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing. NSF awards about 11,000 new awards per year, with an average duration of three years -- to fund specific research proposals that have been judged the most promising by a rigorous and objective merit-review system. In the past few decades, NSF-funded researchers have won more than 200 Nobel Prizes as well as other honors too numerous to list. NSF funds equipment that is needed by scientists and engineers but is often too expensive for any one group or researcher to afford. Another essential element in NSF`s mission is support for science and engineering education, from pre-K through graduate school and beyond.
Strategic Information Systems Group is a Northbrook, IL-based company in the Government sector.
Missile Defense Agency is a Fort Belvoir, VA-based company in the Government sector.
The Department of Justice Canada works to ensure a fair, accessible, and efficient system of justice for all Canadians. Led by the Minister of Justice, who is also the Attorney General of Canada, the Department of Justice strives to promote respect for rights and freedoms, the law and the Constitution. Roughly half of the Departments staff are lawyers; the other half includes experts in fields such as research, the social sciences, and communication, as well as paralegals and support staff.