Category «Government Documents»

New GAO Reports: Defense Management, DOD's Acquisition Workforce, Federal Land Management, Urban Partnership Agreements, USPS, IG Oversight of Financial Regulatory Agencies

Defense Management: Actions Needed to Address Stakeholder Concerns, Improve Interagency Collaboration, and Determine Full Costs Associated with the U.S. Africa Command, GAO-09-181, February 20, 2009 Department of Defense: Additional Actions and Data Are Needed to Effectively Manage and Oversee DOD’s Acquisition Workforce, GAO-09-342, March 25, 2009 Federal Land Management: Additional Documentation of Agency Experiences with …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Military Power of the People's Republic of China 2009

Military Power of the Peoples Republic of China – A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year 2000 “Chinas rapid rise as a regional political and economic power with growing global influence has significant implications for the Asia-Pacific region and the world. The United States welcomes the rise of a …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

United Kingdoms Strategy for Countering International

Pursue Prevent Protect Prepare – The United Kingdoms Strategy for Countering International Terrorism, March 2009. Presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of Her Majesty. “It sets out our comprehensive approach for tackling international terrorism from the international, through the national, to the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

CIA Releases 25-Year Program Archive Search

“The automatic declassification provisions of Executive Order 12958, as amended, require the declassification of nonexempt historically-valuable records 25 years old or older. By 31 December 2006 all agencies were to have completed the review of all hardcopy documents determined to be historically valuable (designated as “permanent” by the agency and the National Archives) and exclusively …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Search Engines

DOD OIG: Funds Appropriated for Afghanistan and Iraq Processed Through the Foreign Military Sales Trust Fund

Report: Funds Appropriated for Afghanistan and Iraq Processed Through the Foreign Military Sales Trust Fund, Prepared by the Department of Defense Inspector General, March 24, 2009 (Project No. D2007-D000FD-0198.000)

Subjects: Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Private Health Insurance, Private Pensions, Social Security, Iraq Oversight

Private Health Insurance: 2008 Survey Results on Number and Market Share of Carriers in the Small Group Health Insurance Market, GAO-09-363R, February 27, 2009 Private Pensions: Conflicts of Interest Can Affect Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans, GAO-09-503T, March 24, 2009 Social Security Administration: Further Actions Needed to Address Disability Claims and Service Delivery Challenges, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

EPA Acts to Reduce Harmful Impacts from Coal Mining

News release: “The United States Environmental Protection Agency has sent two letters to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expressing serious concerns about the need to reduce the potential harmful impacts on water quality caused by certain types of coal mining practices, such as mountaintop mining. The letters specifically addressed two new surface coal mining …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Database State – a comprehensive map of UK government databases

Database State, Executive Summary and Full Report – By Ross Anderson, Ian Brown, Terri Dowty, Philip Inglesant, William Heath, Angela Sasse, Foundation for Information Policy Research (March 2009) “In recent years, the Government has built or extended many central databases that hold information on every aspect of our lives, from health and education to welfare, …

Subjects: E-Government, EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Privacy

FTC Testifies on Efforts to Protect Consumers of Financial Services

Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On “Consumer Credit and Debt: The Role of the Federal Trade Commission in Protecting the Public, Presented By Chairman Jon Leibowitz Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (March 24, 2009) Related postings on …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Report: Show Us the Data – Most Wanted Federal Documents

Show Us the Data: Most Wanted Federal Documents A Report By Center for Democracy & Technology & OpenTheGovernment.org, March 2009 – “In the past few months, President Obama and his appointed officials have indicated that policies around open government and information disclosure will change drastically. While each administration adopts its own standards for the management …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

GPO Seeks Sustainable Paper Products

“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) released a Request for Information (RFI) seeking paper manufacturers and distributors opinions on the most sustainable paper products available for GPO and other federal agencies to review. This RFI is in response torequests from GPOs federal customers to find more sustainable paper choices for their printing needs.”

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Cuomo Announces Voluntary Partial Return of AIG Bonuses

Follow up to previous postings on NY AG Cuomo’s high profile response to AIG bonuses, news Monday evening via the New York Times: “Mr. Cuomo said he was working his way down a list of A.I.G. employees, ranked by the size of their bonuses, and had already won commitments to pay back $50 million out …

Subjects: Government Documents

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