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News release: “For the third consecutive year the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Specifically, U.S. wind power capacity increased by 46 percent in 2007, representing a $9 billion …
Audit Initiated of the Web Applications Security in Air Traffic Control Systems, June 02, 2008. Project ID: 07F3018F000 “Summary: The Office of Inspector General is initiating an audit of web applications security in air traffic control (ATC) systems in response to a request made by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. …
Freedom, Security, Privacy European Home Affairs in an open world – Report of the Informal High Level Advisory Group on the Future of European Home Affairs Policy (“The Future Group”), June 2008
News release: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced submittal of a license application (LA) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) seeking authorization to construct Americas first repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The 8,600 page application describes DOEs plan to safely isolate spent nuclear fuel …
A Status Report to Congress, the Renovation of the Pentagon, March 1, 2007. Prepared by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. [Russ Kick]
The Joint Committee on Taxation Disclosure Report: “Section 6103(p)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall, within 90 days after the close of each calendar year, furnish to the Joint Committee on Taxation for disclosure to the public a report which provides with respect to each Federal agency and …
U.S. Courts: “Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2008, exceeded 900,000, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The 901,927 bankruptcy cases filed represent a 30 percent increase over the 695,575 cases filed in the 12-month period ending March 31, 2007.”
Improved Controls Would Reduce Superfund Backlogs [Report PDF – 40 pages] [At a Glance PDF], Report No. 08-P-0169, June 2, 2008. “As of February 2007, there were 144 non-federal sites that had been on the National Priorities List (NPL) for over 20 years but had still not reached construction completion. We focused our review on …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the Interim Final Rule for the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), a new online system that is part of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) and is required by the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.” Fact Sheet: Electronic System for …
External Quality Reviews in Medicaid Managed Care (OEI-01-06-00510), June 3, 2008.
D-2008-096 Identification and Reporting of Improper Payments by the Defense Logistics Agency, May 20, 2008 (Project No. D2007-D000FJ-0079.000). “Documentation showed that the Defense Logistics Agency could have identified and reported about $93.3 million in improper payments associated with its programs in its FY 2006 Financial Statements.”
Defense Management: Assessment of the Reorganization of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, GAO-08-830R, May 30, 2008 Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Establish a Cost and Schedule Baseline for Manufacturing a Critical Nuclear Weapon Component, GAO-08-593, May 23, 2008
