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From the Minority Staff of the House Government Reform Committee: “In June 2005, the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General warned FEMA that its systems for managing the personnel and equipment dispatched to disaster sites were inadequate. Instead of remedying the problems the report identified, FEMA director Michael Brown disputed nearly all its findings.” DHS …
“Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS is a searchable database of CBP rulings that can be retrieved based on simple or complex search characteristics using keywords and Boolean operators. CROSS has the added functionality of CROSS referencing rulings from the initial search result set with their modified, revoked or referenced counterparts. Rulings collections are separated …
Hurricane Katrina: Providing Oversight of the Nation’s Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Activities GAO-05-1053T, September 28, 2005. Highlights. “GAO’s past work has noted a host of needed improvements in a variety of government programs related to Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters. For example, GAO found that there have been a number of challenges in preparing …
Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to Improve the Reliability of Cost Data and Provide Additional Guidance to Control Costs, GAO-05-882, September 21, 2005. Highlights. “GAO found numerous problems in DOD’s processes for recording and reporting costs for GWOT, raising significant concerns about the overall reliability of DOD’s reported cost data. As a result, neither …
“OnGuardOnline.gov provides practical tips from the federal government and the technology industry to help you be on guard against Internet fraud, secure your computer, and protect your personal information.”
Katrina: The Sounds of Communications Silence, by John Wohlstetter, Discovery Institute, September 22, 2005: “The near total communications shutdown caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans reveals that in the four years since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks federal, state and local governments seemed to have learned nothing from 9/11.”
Guidelines for Providing Appropriate Access to Geospatial Data in Response to Security Concerns, Federal Geographic Data Committee, June 2005 (16 pages, PDF)
Federal Reserve Board press release, September 22, 2005: “The Federal Reserve Board announced on Thursday that beginning in 2006, the content of the Federal Reserve Bulletin will be published on the Board’s public web site on a continuing basis, as it becomes available. The quarterly paper version of the Bulletin will no longer be published. …
From the Order, released September 23, 2005: “In this Order, we conclude that the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) applies to facilities-based broadband Internet access providers and providers of interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. This Order is the first critical step to apply CALEA obligations to new technologies and services that …
From CBO, A Guide to Understanding the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, September 2005 (32 pages, PDF) and The Risk Exposure of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, September 2005 (44 pages, PDF)
Press release: Vivísimo and MSN Search to Provide Search Backbone for Redesigned FirstGov Portal: “As part of the agreement, Vivísimo teamed with Microsoft’s MSN Search Web service to provide search results for the government domain. The MSN Search Web service includes extensive coverage of government documents in its index as well as a rich set …
“E-Plan is a highly reliable, highly secure, Internet accessible repository of facility, and hazardous material information. E-Plan system was designed, built and implemented specifically for first responders through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The E-Plan system …
