Category «E-Government»

New GAO Reports: Afghanistan and Pakistan, Aviation Weather, Homeland Defense, Security Disability, Wildland Fire Management

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Oversight of U.S. Interagency Efforts, GAO-09-1015T, September 09, 2009 Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, but Face Significant Challenges, GAO-09-761, September 09, 2009 Homeland Defense: U.S. Northern Command Has a Strong Exercise Program, but Involvement of Interagency Partners and States Can Be …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Summary Report of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee

“A summary of the report from the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee was provided to the Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and NASA Administrator on Tuesday, September 8. The summary’s text is consistent with presentations made during the committee’s final public meeting on Aug. 12.” Transmittal Letter …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New Political Realtiy of Web 2.0 – Connecting With the Public Via Microblogging

Newsweek: Who’s Winning the Twitter Wars? How Democratic and Republican politicians use the popular microblogging service. “For the foreseeable future, Republicans will continue to broadcast their message widely,while the left-most wing of the Democratic Party mounts a quiet, steady defense. Strategists on both sides agree that Twitter—or at least, the short-form communication that Twitter has …

Subjects: Blogs, Congress, E-Government

Working Paper – Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts’ Budget: An Overview

Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts’ Budget: An Overview Stephen Schultze, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. “This draft working paper examines the role of user fees for public access to records in the budgeting process of the federal courts. It sketches the policy principles that have traditionally …

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Legal Research

Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics

Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics, 2009 “The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is one of the smallest of the U.S. principal statistical agencies but shoulders one of the most expansive and detailed legal mandates among those agencies. Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

FDA Opens the Reportable Food Registry – Electronic Portal for Industry

“The Reportable Food Registry (RFR or the Registry) is an electronic portal for Industry to report when there is reasonable probability that an article of food will cause serious adverse health consequences. The Registry helps the FDA better protect public health by tracking patterns and targeting inspections. The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget: An Update

Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget: An Update, September 1, 2009 Under CBO’s assumptions for its baseline, the cyclically adjusted budget deficit will rise sharply in 2009, to 8.6 percent of potential gross domestic product (GDP) (from 2.7 percent in 2008). Potential GDP is the amount of output that corresponds …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2009 Annual Revision

September 2, 2009: “A Federal Reserve Bulletin article, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2009 Annual Revision article reviews the 2009 annual revision to the index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization. It discusses both the changes in estimation methods introduced in the revision and the revised estimates …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents