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“Two major authorities govern the U.S. military justice system, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Manual for Courts-Martial (MCM). Rather than published in revised editions, corrections and changes to early courts-martial manuals independently prepared by the Army and Navy were often printed as separate bulletins or announced in periodical literature. Officers …
State Estimates of Substance Use from the 20052006 National Surveys on Drug Use, Arthur Hughes, Neeraja Sathe, Kathryn Spagnola. DEPARTMENT OF Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, February 2008. “This report presents State estimates for 23 measures of substance use or mental health problems based on …
Audit of Department of Justice’s Key Indicators, Audit 08-18, March 2008: “Integrating budget and performance has been an important government initiative to ensure that performance is routinely considered in funding and management decisions, and that programs achieve expected results and work toward continual improvement. To measure performance, federal agencies develop long-term strategic plans to provide …
Treasury Department, Legislative Provisions Relating to the International Monetary Fund: A Report to Congress in accordance with Sections 1503 and 1705(a) of the International Financial Institutions Act, Section 801(c)(1)(B) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 and Section 605(d) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, …
Defense Contracting: Army Case Study Delineates Concerns with Use of Contractors as Contract Specialists, GAO-08-360, March 26, 2008 DOD Personnel Clearances: Questions for the Record Related to the Quality and Timeliness of Clearances, GAO-08-580R, March 25, 2008
March 26, 2008 – U.S. International Reserve Position: “The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $75,146 million as of the end of that week, compared to $75,366 million as of the end of the prior week.”
News release: “Footnote.com and the National Archives and Records Administration held a press conference at the Archives in Washington, DC, to announce the release of an online interactive photo of the Vietnam War Memorial. In addition to releasing this unique version of the Wall, Footnote.com enables visitors to search the Wall [58,000 plus names] for …
March 2008: “This issue of eJournal [volume 13, number 3] USA delves into what those familiar with the history of the environmental movement in the United States might see as a surprising trend the way U.S. corporations in recent years have embraced environmentally friendly ways of doing business. What prompts a corporation to go …
The Three Leading Causes of Injury Mortality in the United States, 1999-2005, by Lois A. Fingerhut, M.A., Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, and Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics: “In 2005, poisoning continued to be the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, having surpassed firearms for the first time …
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2005-2006. February 2008 37 pp. (PHS) 2008-1205 “This report is the latest in a series of periodic reviews of the work of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory committee on health information policy to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of …
News release: “The Federal Reserves 2007 study of the composition of the check market released today shows that nearly 50 percent of checks written are consumer-to-business checks. The Check Sample Study reports on the composition of the check market based on responses from nine large financial institutions that together account for about one quarter of …
DOE OIG Inspection Report: Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Internal Controls Over the Department of Energy’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Access Program, March 2008 – “We concluded that Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence did not have adequate internal controls over its Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access program.”
