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Federal Disability Programs: More Strategic Coordination Could Help Overcome Challenges to Needed Transformation, GAO-08-635, May 20, 2008 Food and Drug Administration: Agency Complied with Statutory Requirement to Reexamine Condom Labels, GAO-08-565R, April 25, 2008 Military Personnel: DOD Needs Data to Determine if Active Duty Service Has an Impact on the Ability of Guard and Reservists …
Bureau of Transportation Statistics: “U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 4 percent fewer pilots and 32 percent fewer maintenance workers in 2007 than in 2000, the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. The seven large network carriers employed 29.9 percent fewer pilots and 42.6 percent fewer maintenance workers in 2007 than …
Report Number D-2008-094, Report on Air Force Air Combat Command Contracts, May 20, 2008.
OIG-08-46 – A Review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Procurement of Untrained Canines (PDF, 35 pages) “From April 2006 through June 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection procured 322 untrained canines at a cost of $1.46 million, or an average price of $4,535 per canine. The costs incurred for the untrained canines were reasonable …
Quick Response Evaluation: Underpayments to Widows (A-01-08-28116), May 22, 2008: “Our objective was to quantify the amount of Title II benefits owed a group of widows whose benefits were not properly adjusted at full retirement age (FRA).”
News release: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unveiled plans for the Sentinel Initiative, a strategy to create and implement a national, integrated, electronic system for monitoring medical product safety. The resulting “Sentinel System” will strengthen FDA’s ability to track how drugs and medical products perform once they go on the market. Ultimately, this …
Memorial Day – Have a a fun, safe, and memorable Memorial Day weekend using official U.S. government information.
House Intelligence Committee Report on the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act, H.Rep. 110-665, May 21. The link and following, from Secrecy News: “The National Cyber Security Initiative, which is the single largest and most important initiative in next years budget, is being conducted under excessive classification, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) said in …
IRS Issues Spring 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin: “The IRS releases the spring 2008 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring data from the 138.4 million individual tax returns filed for tax year 2006.”
Fact Sheet: Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Free and Fair Trade
2008 Summer Market and Reliability Assessment, May 15, 2008: “The reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system this summer, as forecasted by the planning authorities and reviewed by the Regional Entities and NERC is projected to be adequate. Extreme weather conditions and major outages of generation and transmission pose risks to reliability and where …
Transportation for Tomorrow: Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, “prepared by a specially convened Commission, meets the charge given under Section 1909 of the Safe Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). The Report includes detailed recommendations for creating and sustaining a pre-eminent surface …
