Day archives: September 10th, 2010

GAO Report: Contractor Integrity

Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information, GAO-10-693, September 10, 2010 “GAO’s analysis of guidance and contract actions at three agencies found areas where sensitive information is not fully safeguarded and thus may remain at risk of unauthorized disclosure or misuse. The Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

GAO Report: Hybrid Warfare

Hybrid Warfare, GAO-10-1036R, September 10, 2010 “Senior military officials recently testified1 before Congress that current and future adversaries are likely to use “hybrid warfare” tactics, a blending of conventional and irregular approaches across the full spectrum of conflict. In addition, several academic and professional trade publications have commented that future conflict will likely be characterized …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents

FCC Releases Telecommunications Industry Revenues Report , 2008

Telecommunications Industry Revenues 2008 – Jim Lande, Kenneth Lynch, Industry Analysis & Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, September 2010 “This report provides an overview of U.S. telecommunications industry revenues and contributions to the universal service support mechanisms over the past decade. The last report was released September 3, 2009. Most of the data for 2008 …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Wireless Web

Article Highlights 5 Shadow IT Enterprise Apps

5 Companies Thriving on the Rise of Shadow IT: “Shadow IT refers to “IT systems and IT solutions built and used inside organizations without organizational approval.” In the past few years, it’s gone from being considered a problem to being consider something to be embraced and learned from. Thanks to SaaS, entire companies have been …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

CRS: U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress

U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress, Shirley A. Kan, Specialist in Asian Security Affairs, July 6, 2010 “This CRS report, updated as warranted, discusses policy issues regarding military-to-military (mil-to-mil) contacts with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and provides a record of major contacts and crises since 1993. The United States suspended military contacts with …

Subjects: Government Documents