DRS DC office

Digital Reasoning Systems has opened a Washington, DC, office. The Brentwood company's business origins are in the intelligence community. Link.

TN Cable, Broadcast leadership

Former Tennessee Cable Telecommunications Association President Stacey Briggs is planning the next phase of her career, after stepping down at TCTA. And, over at Tennessee Association of Broadcasters, Whit Adamson is getting a new VP. Read about it.

NYT dissects Kaplan, a Washington Post unit

The New York Times this week did the story we would have been surprised to see in The Washington Post: An update on lawsuits and investigations into the Post Co.'s Kaplan subsidiary business, which provides postsecondary education. Article here.

AmMed Direct COO departs

AmMed Direct LLC COO Tom Milam has, according to an NBJ report today, left the company, following accounting and reimbursement problems. The remaining management team is here.

Corker decries lack of Feds' transparency

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Chattanooga, yesterday issued a statement calling for the liabilities of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to be reflected on Treasury's books, and called for greater understanding and transparency in reforming the two agencies. Chattanoogan.com. Earlier this week, Corker challenged proposed prohibition of large commercial banks' conducting “proprietary trading“ for their own portfolios. Contrary to the views of the Obama Administration and former Fed Reserve Chief Paul Volcker, Corker holds that such speculative trading contributed nothing to the banking collapse. WPLN reported it.

ORNL budget prospects bright

Oak Ridge is likely to earn $1.6 billion or more in the coming fiscal year, thanks to strong proposals from the Obama Administration. The KNS' Frank Munger reports.

NASA looks to Gordon's Science Committee for help

The Daily News Journal (Gannett) reports that NASA, inevitably, is looking to Murfreesboro Democrat U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, who chairs the House science committee, for help in getting funds needed to sustain NASA's interplanetary ambitions.