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Press release: “Today, Dave Obey (D-WI), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee and John Murtha (D-PA), Ranking Member of the Defense Subcommittee, released a new report on the state of the U.S. Armys readiness for war. Mr. Murtha also announced a resolution calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.” The Obey Murtha Report …
Follow-up to August 25, 2006 posting, Commission Calls on Member States to Contribute to European Digital Library, today’s news: “A new Digital Libraries Initiative Website was published today on the Europa portal. The site is action orientated. The main focus is on the Homepage’s “What’s New” section where the Information market Unit (Information Society and …
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine by Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten Abstract – “This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of …
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: July 2006 – released September 12, 2006. Full Release – PDF | Technical Note, Tables: XLS, Highlights – PDF
Enterprise Architecture: Leadership Remains Key to Establishing and Leveraging Architectures for Organizational Transformation, Full-text GAO-06-831, and Highlights, August 14, 2006. “The state of the enterprise architecture programs at the 27 major federal departments and agencies is mixed, with several having very immature programs, several having more mature programs, and most being somewhere in between. Collectively, …
A Review of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Discipline Procedures, OIG-07-57 (PDF, 49 pages), released September 11. 2006.
Association for Computing Machinery, September 11, 2006, National Institute of Standards and Technology Report on Audit Trails Released Independent Verification: Essential Action to Assure Integrity in the Voting Process, by Roy G. Salton (26 pages, PDF)
Lessons Learned From 9/11: DNA Identification in Mass Fatality Incidents: “On the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the National Institute of Justice has released this new report prepared by a panel of the Nation’s top forensic scientists. The report reviews the scientists’ experiences and offers guidance to laboratory directors on how to …
Follow-up to previous postings on EPA’s closure of libraries, this press release: “Prosecution of polluters by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “will be compromised” due to the loss of “timely, correct and accessible” information from the agency’s closure of its network of technical libraries, according to an internal memo released today by Public Employees for …
Unclassified Executive Summary from the classified DoD IG Report No. 06-INTEL-10, Review of DoD-Directed Investigations of Detainee Abuse, released September 8, 2006 and dated August 25, 2006. IPO 2004C005, Review of Criminal Investigations of Alleged Detainee Abuse, 8/25/06 (Redacted Version, 72 pages, PDF), released September 8, 2006 and dated August 25, 2006
“The Center for Digital Government and the National Association of Counties (NACo) invited U.S. counties to participate in the 2005 Digital Counties Survey, which was underwritten by Hyland Software,developers of OnBase. The survey grouped counties into four population categories: one for large counties (500,000 or more), two others for mid-sized counties (250,000 499,999 and …
USDA – A Consumer’s Guide to Food Safety: Severe Storms and Hurricanes: “Did you know that a flood, fire, national disaster, or the loss of power from high winds, snow, or ice could jeopardize the safety of your food? Knowing how to determine if food is safe and how to keep food safe will help …
