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Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information, GAO-10-693, September 10, 2010 “GAOs 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 …
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 …
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 …
How Does Obesity in Adults Affect Spending on Health Care? September 8, 2010, Economic and Budget Issue Brief “Over the past two decades, the adult population in the United States has, on average, become much heavier. From 1987 to 2007, the fraction of adults who were overweight or obese increased from 44 percent to 63 …
Management Report: Opportunities for Improvements in the Congressional Award Foundation’s Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures, GAO-10-964R, September 09, 2010 Hydropower Relicensing: Stakeholders’ Views on the Energy Policy Act Varied, but More Consistent Information Needed, GAO-10-770, August 04, 2010
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today released the second Local Telephone Competition report to be based on comprehensive information about subscribership to interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service as well as more traditional telephone lines. The report summarizes data collected by FCC Form 477 as of June 30, 2009…In June 2009, there were …
News release: “..Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Managing Director Steven VanRoekel announced a suite of new tools designed to unlock FCC data and drive innovation across the public and private sectors…The suite of tools released by the FCC includes a number of APIs (Application Programming Interface) – interfaces that enable communication between independent …
Full Report – Beige Book, September 8, 2010 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, August 2010, and link to reports by Districts: “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggested continued growth in national economic activity during the reporting period of mid-July through the end of August, but with …
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States – George W. Bush Book II – July 1 to December 31, 2005. “Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material …
The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July 2010, Number 462, by Adam Copeland and Adam Hale Shapiro “We study the effect of market structure on a personal computer manufacturers decision to adopt new technology. This industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail …
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2010 “Private industry employers spent an average of $27.64 per hour worked for employee compensation in June 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $19.53 per hour worked and accounted for 70.6 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $8.11 and accounted for …
University Research: Policies for Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated, GAO-10-937, September 8, 2010 “GAO identified wide variation in indirect cost rates at schools receiving DOD funding in fiscal year 2007, which may be related to a number of factors. For example, the average difference between a school’s proposed and its negotiated rate …
