NOAA’s budget request for fiscal year 2022 includes $855 million to spur new research and develop products to better understand climate risks and decision-making.

The project comes in response to congressional direction for DOE to expand its collaborative research efforts with NIH in the areas of data and computation.

Called Paige Prostate, the AI flags potentially cancerous areas in prostate biopsy images for further review by pathologists if they aren’t identified in an initial review.

The grants are part of an ARC initiative that has provided more than $287 million to 362 projects since 2015 to increase economic diversification.

Instead of commissioning a new facility, NASA currently plans to use commercial low-earth orbit platforms and rely on commercial service providers to support its work.

Started by the MITRE Corporation, Synthea uses publicly available health statistics to create in-depth models that cover artificial patients’ lifespans—but free of privacy, security, intellectual property, or other legal restrictions.

The funding comes as part of NSF’s “Convergence Accelerator” program, which focuses on challenges that require merging ideas, approaches, and technologies across a diverse range of sectors, disciplines, and experts.