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DOT OIG Audit – Review of FAAs Progress in Enhancing Air Traffic Control Systems Security, November 02, 2009, Project ID: FI-2010-006 “On November 2, we issued our final report on FAAs Progress in Enhancing Air Traffic Control Systems Security. The audit objectives were to determine FAAs progress in correcting security weaknesses previously identified in the …
HUD OIG: Review of HUDs Process for Monitoring Recipient Reporting for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, October 30, 2009 “We audited HUD’s process for monitoring recipient reporting for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (Board), created by the Recovery Act, has required …
World Resources Institute: Power, Responsibility, and Accountability: Re-Thinking the Legitimacy of Institutions for Climate Finance, Working Paper: November, 2009 by Maria Athena Ballesteros, Smita Nakhooda, Jake Werksman, with Kaija Hurlburt and Seema Kumar “This Working Paper seeks to ground the debate on climate finance in an objective analysis of ongoing efforts to finance mitigation and …
“The United States is increasingly dependent on information and information technology for both civilian and military purposes, as are many other nations. Although there is a substantial literature on the potential impact of a cyberattack on the societal infrastructure of the United States, little has been written about the use of cyberattack as an instrument …
Migration and the Global Recession – A Report Commissioned by the BBC World Service, by Michael Fix, Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Jeanne Batalova, Aaron Terrazas, Serena Yi-Ying Lin, and Michelle Mittelstadt, Migration Policy Institute, September 2009 “The global financial crisis that followed the collapse of the investment house Lehman Brothers in September 2008 can be viewed …
News release: “The Government is today announcing the conclusion of discussions with Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) regarding their participation in the Governments Asset Protection Scheme (APS). As a result of improved market conditions and following extensive due diligence announced in February, the Government can today announce that: Lloyds will …
News release: “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac refinanced more than 3.5 million mortgage loans in 2009 through September of this year. In the month of September, 262,000 mortgages were refinanced a drop from the volume of the preceding month with mortgage rates still higher than levels observed in the spring. The numbers were …
“The final report of Michael Foots Review of the opportunities and challenges facing the British Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey) and six Overseas Territories (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Turks and Caicos Islands) was published on 29 October. The recommendations made to these jurisdictions cover: the quality and extent of …
“The November 2, 2009 hearing of the Commission on Wartime Contracting probed the precision and accuracy of counting contractors by the Department of Defense, the strategic withdrawal in Iraq and the role of contractors, and the cooperation between the Defense Contracting Management Agency and the Defense Contracting Audit Agency with coordination from the Defense Procurement …
CBO Analysis of Subsidies to and Payments by Enrollees in Insurance Exchanges Under the Affordable Health Care for America Act, November 2, 2009. Letter to the Honorable Charles B. Rangel “This letter responds to questions about the subsidies that enrollees would receive for premiums and cost sharing and the amounts that they would have to …
Contingency Contracting: Further Improvements Needed in Agency Tracking of Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, GAO-10-187, November 02, 2009 Operation Iraqi Freedom: Preliminary Observations on DOD Planning for the Drawdown of U.S. Forces from Iraq, GAO-10-179, November 02, 2009 Troubled Asset Relief Program: Continued Stewardship Needed as Treasury Develops Strategies for Monitoring and …
“49 percent of all U.S. children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood,” says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. “Food stamp use is a clear sign of poverty and food insecurity, …
