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Policy Options for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, June 2011 “Unmanned aircraft systems have long held great promise for military operations, but technology has only recently matured enough to exploit that potential. Much as the stealth fighter and Patriot missile came to public attention during the 1991 Gulf War, surveillance and missile-attack operations by Predator unmanned aircraft …
News release: “In order to ensure the public has as much information as possible about the health and the environmental impacts of chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the identities of more than 150 chemicals contained in 104 health and safety studies that had been claimed confidential by industry. Todays announcement is …
Full Report – Beige Book, June 8, 2011 and Links to the Districts “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicated that economic activity generally continued to expand since the last report, though a few Districts indicated some deceleration. Some slowing in the pace of growth was noted in the New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and …
Evaluating U.S. Foreign Assistance to Afghanistan – A Majority Staff Report Prepared for the Use of the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 112th Congress, First Session, June 8, 2011 “Today, the United States spends more on foreign aid in Afghanistan than in any other country, including Iraq. After 10 years and roughly $18.8 billion …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a report that proposes voluntary codes of conduct to strengthen the cybersecurity of companies that increasingly rely on the Internet to do business, but are not part of the critical infrastructure sector. The report, Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy, focuses on the Internet and Information …
Afghanistan: U.S. Efforts to Vet Non-U.S. Vendors Need Improvement, GAO-11-355, June 08, 2011 VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Prevent Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents, GAO-11-530, June 07, 2011
Short-Term Energy Outlook, June 7, 2011 Release: “World benchmark crude oil prices reached their highest level of this year at the end of April, fell by about 10 percent by May 9 and have changed very little since then. EIA still expects oil markets to tighten through 2012 given projected world oil demand growth and …
HM Treasury Review of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007: the Government response, June 2011 “The Governments approach is to ensure the UK financial system is a hostile environment for money laundering and terrorist finance while minimising the burden on legitimate businesses. In so doing and in order to prevent the UK being put at an …
News release: “Food safety annual report card targets hard-to-prevent infection Salmonella infections have not decreased during the past 15 years and have instead increased by 10 percent in recent years, according to a new Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During the same time period, illnesses from the …
News release: “Telework Exchange, a public-private partnership focused on demonstrating the tangible value of telework, today announced the results of the Federal Telework Progress Report: Making the Grade?, which gauges Federal telework progress against the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 requirements, and notably the provisions within 180 days to build the foundation for a sustainable …
Building An IT Acquisition Manager Community: Recommendations for building an IT Acquisition Cadre, based on a private sector best practices study – David Litman and Raj Sharma, FAIR (Federal Acquisition Innovation & Reform) Institute “Today, rather than being an enabler for successful IT deployment, the IT acquisition process moves intolerably slow and works in silos …
Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for April and the Daily Treasury Statements for May June 7, 2011: “The federal budget deficit is $929 billion for the first eight months of fiscal year 2011, CBO estimates – $6 billion less than the shortfall recorded over the same period last year. For the first two-thirds of …
