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The National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES:国立環境研究所, Kokuritsu-Kankyō kenkyūsho) was established in 1974 as a focal point for environmental research in Japan. [1] In 2001 it became an Independent Administrative Institution .
NIEs are considered to be "estimative" products, in that they present what intelligence analysts estimate may be the course of future events. Coordination of NIEs involves not only trying to resolve any inter-agency differences, but also assigning confidence levels to the key judgments and rigorously evaluating the sourcing for them.
In the early days of the process, CIA used the State Department's intelligence staff for drafting the NIEs, but a "small top level Office of National Estimates" was set up to integrate the departmental drafts. A senior CIA analyst responsible for the document would work out differences.
NIES is an initialism, which may refer to: Newly industrializing economies: Four Asian Tigers; Newly industrialized country; Various organizations: National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Northern Ireland Electricity Service; Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, China; National Industry Extension Service, Australia
The GOSAT-2 was developed as a joint project of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency , Ministry of the Environment, and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). It was launched on 29 October 2018 from the Tanegashima Space Center aboard the H-IIA rocket. [citation needed]
The first incarnation of the Board was the United States Intelligence Board, a forum of intelligence agency leaders convened to advise the Director of Central Intelligence on intelligence matters established by President Eisenhower in 1957 upon the recommendation of the Presidential Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (now the President's Intelligence Advisory Board).
Jack Nies (pronounced niece) (born November 11, 1937) is a retired National Basketball Association (NBA) referee. Nies officiated 2,046 regular-season games throughout his 31-year career, and wore uniform number 35. In addition, Nies oversaw 150 playoff games, 10 NBA Finals games, two NBA All-Star Games (1996 and 2005), and the 1987 Legends ...
The National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS) was a collaboration between Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the University of Cambridge.It was established in July 2002 and in addition to its main role of promoting and supporting the use of e-Science and grid technologies within the field of environmental research, its purpose was to: