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“NIST announces that its working definition of cloud computing is available. Researchers worked in collaboration with industry and government to draft the definition that serves as a foundation for its research and future publication on the topic. Cloud computing is a pay-per-use model for enabling available, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of …
News release: “Many people concerned about their mortgage, their job or their finances may be especially vulnerable to scams and other costly “fixes” for their problems. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation today issued a variety of tips to help consumers be on guard financially in the current economy. The advice was published in the Spring …
Treasury: Quarterly Report to Congress on International Monetary Fund Lending, January 1 March 31, 2009
Quarterly Banking Profile: Fourth Quarter 2008 – The 2009 Economic Landscape: How the Recession Is Unfolding across Four U.S. Regions Alternative Financial Services – A Primer – “Provides the earliest comprehensive summary of financial results for all FDIC-insured institutions. This report card on industry status and performance includes written analyses, graphs and statistical tables.”
News release: “World marketed energy consumption is projected to grow by 44 percent between 2006 and 2030, driven by strong long-term economic growth in the developing nations of the world, according to the reference case projection from the International Energy Outlook 2009 (IEO2009) released today by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The current global economic …
News release: “Devolution has changed the system of Government of the United Kingdom irreversibly, according to the Commons Justice Committee, but has left Englands government highly centralised and, in the view of many, in need of fundamental change. Report – Devolution: A Decade On – In its report published today, the three-party Committee analyses the …
Federal Computer Week: “The new YouTube channel, the U.S. Government Channel, has more than 200 videos from 25 agencies arranged in 13 playlists, including one in Spanish. Macon Phillips, the White Houses new media director, appears in a video that showcases new media being used by government agencies.”
News release: “Our current economic situation has altered some of the usual interactions between monetary and fiscal policy. One change regards the relative effects of monetary and fiscal policy. The depth and persistence of economic weakness has meant that traditional monetary policy–the target for the federal funds rate–has become constrained from easing as much as …
News release: ” The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) gave leading government agencies and online retailers a failing grade in preventing deceptive email and phishing scams based on its newly released analysis of email authentication adoption. While adoption has grown over the past year, OTA found approximately 56 percent of the top .gov sites including …
End-Stage Renal Disease: CMS Should Monitor Effect of Bundled Payment on Home Dialysis Utilization Rates, GAO-09-537, May 22, 2009 Federal Transit Administration: Progress and Challenges in Implementing and Evaluating the Job Access and Reverse Commute Program, GAO-09-496, May 21, 2009 Federal Contractors: Better Performance Information Needed to Support Agency Contract Award Decisions, GAO-09-374, April 23, …
OIG-09-037 Safety and Soundness: OTS Involvement With Backdated Capital Contributions by Thrifts, May 21, 2009 We reviewed the circumstances surrounding the backdating of capital contributions to prior periods at six thrifts and concluded that the backdating of these transactions was inappropriate for all six thrifts. For one thrift, the OTS Senior Deputy Director directed …
D-2009-075 Afghanistan Security Forces Fund Phase III-Accountability for Weapons Distributed to the Afghanistan National Army, May 21, 2009 (Project No. D2007-D000LQ-0161.005) We identified material internal control weaknesses in accounting for weapons provided to the Afghanistan National Army (ANA). Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A( did not have a formal process in place to transfer weapons to …
