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FCW.com: “The Office of Management and Budget has issued preliminary instructions Nov. 9 to agencies on how to report contract, grant and other types of financial data for inclusion in the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) system.” President Bush Signs Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, September 26, 2006: “This bill is going …
Press release, November 9, 2007: “The Financial Services Roundtable today unveiled the Blueprint for U.S. Financial Competitiveness, a plan of action which seeks to ensure that the U.S. maintains a competitive position in the global financial marketplace through principles-based regulation; eight “must do” reforms; and modernized charters and new national charter options.” The Blueprint For …
Iran’s Ballistic Missile Programs: An Overview, November 8, 2007 U.S. Arms Sales to Pakistan, November 8, 2007 Pakistan’s Political Crisis and State of Emergency, November 6, 2007 Pakistan-U.S. Relations, October 18, 2007 Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, October 31, 2007 Iraq: Government Formation and Benchmarks, October 25, 2007 Director of National Intelligence Statutory Authorities: Status …
Press release: “Today, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy granted Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the White House from destroying back-up copies of millions of deleted emails while the lawsuit is pending. CREW brought this lawsuit against the Executive Office of the President and the …
The University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab Dark Web project: “Based on our actual spidering experience over the past 5 years, we believe there are about 50,000 sites of extremist and terrorist content as of 2007, including: web sites, forums, blogs, social networking sites, video sites, and virtual world sites (e.g., Second Life). The largest …
A Tribute to Carl Linnaeus – November 13 and 14, 2007: “Scientists around the world are celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. He is best known for instituting a two-name method for identifying plants and animals, called binomial nomenclature. Considered the father of modern taxonomy, Linnaeus named approximately 4,400 …
Report of Defense Science Board on Mission Impact of Foreign Influence on DoD Software, September 2007.
OIG-08-08 – Administration of the Federal Trucking Industry Security Grant Program for FY 2004 and FY 2005 (PDF, 22 pages) – New 11/09/2007
LA Times: “Under pressure from federal judges, inmate advocacy groups and civil rights organizations, federal authorities are considering a sweeping cut in prison sentences that could bring early release for thousands of federal inmates. The proposal being weighed by the U.S. Sentencing Commission would shave an average of at least two years off the sentences …
US Courts press release: “Free public access to federal court records is available at 16 libraries in 14 states [the list is included with this release] under a joint pilot project of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Government Printing Office. The project offers free access, at the participating 16 federal …
Center for American Progress: The Forgotten Front, by Caroline Wadhams, Lawrence J. Korb, November 6, 2007 – “Six years after the United States led an invasion of Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power and destroy Al Qaedas safe haven, Afghanistan faces a growing insurgency that directly threatens its stability and the national security interests …
“A special new TRAC terrorism enforcement page features a unique national map displaying the location of recent federal convictions for all individuals who have been categorized by the Justice Department as spies or terrorists, or those whose prosecution the government thought might prevent or disrupt potential or actual terrorist threats. Click on one of the …
