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DHS Fact Sheet: Improving Border Security and Immigration Within Existing Law – “Today, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez Announced a Series of Reforms the Administration Will Pursue to Address Border Security and Immigration Challenges. The following reforms represent steps the Administration can take within the boundaries of existing law to …
Homeland Security: Responses to Posthearing Questions Related to the Department of Homeland Security’s Integrated Financial Management Systems Challenges, GAO-07-1157R, August 10, 2007 “The consolidation of an entity as large and diverse as DHS poses significant management challenges, including integrating a myriad of redundant financial management systems and addressing existing and newly identified weaknesses in the …
D-2007-115 Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services Contract (August 9, 2007) (Project D2006-D000AS-0173.000) PDF and Summary.
Transforming Government to Meet the Demands of the 21st Century, Federal Midwest Human Resources Council and the Chicago Federal Executive Board, Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 2007, GAO-07-1188CG U.S. Financial Condition and Fiscal Future Briefing, American Accounting Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 2007, GAO-07-1189CG
NASA: Progress Made on Strategic Human Capital Management, but Future Program Challenges Remain, GAO-07-1004, August 8, 2007 Response to a post hearing question related to GAO’s December 6, 2006 testimony on continued findings of fraud, waste, and abuse associated with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita relief efforts, GAO-07-363R, January 12, 2007 Defense Contract Management: DOD’s Lack …
Press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today steps that will strengthen aviation security through uniform and consistent passenger prescreening against government watch lists. DHS is publishing two regulations [137 pages, PDF] which will initiate these changes: (1) Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) Predeparture Final Rule, which enables DHS to collect manifest …
“Still Waiting After All These Years, a new analysis of Freedom of Information Act performance by the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, shows that service continues to frustrate requesters, despite a presidential directive ordering agencies to improve agency response. Over the past nine years that agencies have been reporting performance data, the number of …
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 08/09/2007 Extended Mass Layoffs (Quarterly) 08/09/2007 Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey 08/08/2007 Productivity and Costs 08/07/2007 Job openings by industry, June 2007 08/09/2007
Audit of the Department of Justice Information Technology Studies, Plans, and Evaluations, Audit Report 07-39, August 2007 (185 pages, PDF)
Press release: “Nearly one in every 10 of the nations 3,141 counties has a population that is more than 50 percent minority. In 2006, eight counties that had not previously been majority-minority pushed the national total to 303, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today.”
Press release: Community Measures Prevent Deaths During Pandemic, New Study Finds – “School closures and other community strategies designed to reduce the possibility of spreading disease between people during an epidemic can save lives, particularly when the measures are used in combination and implemented soon after an outbreak begins in a community, according to a …
Press release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday set a final date for an extension given to the Administration to respond to subpoena relating to warrantless wiretapping issues. The August 20 deadline sets a final date of an extension that offered the White House and the Vice Presidents office nearly an additional month …
