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Draft SP 800-124, Guidelines on Cell Phone and PDA Security, July 2008. “Cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) have become indispensable tools for today’s highly mobile workforce. Small and relatively inexpensive, these devices can be used for many functions, including sending and receiving email, storing documents, delivering presentations, and remotely accessing data. While these …
Air Force Procurement: Aerial Refueling Tanker Protest, GAO-08-991T, July 10, 2008 State and Local Government Pension Plans: Current Structure and Funded Status, GAO-08-983T, July 10, 2008 Surface Transportation: Principles Can Guide Efforts to Restructure and Fund Federal Programs, GAO-08-744T, July 10, 2008 VA Health Care: Ineffective Controls over Medical Center Billings and Collections Limit Revenue …
News release: “The Commission has approved the issuance of a report to Congress regarding the Do Not Call Registry for Fiscal Year 2007. The report..has been submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, as required by Section 4(b) of the …
Report to the Congress on the Human Resources Line of Business, June 25, 2008 “This report addresses Section 747 of Division D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, which requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate …
Iran’s Political, Demographic, and Economic Vulnerabilities, by Keith Crane, Rollie Lal, Jeffrey Martini, July 2008. “Iran is one of the United States’ most important foreign policy concerns. It has also been an extraordinarily difficult country with which to engage. Ironically, while the leadership has been hostile to the United States, Iranian society has evolved in …
Draft Guide to Bluetooth Security, July 9, 2008, SP 800-121. “Bluetooth is an open standard for short-range radio frequency (RF) communication. Bluetooth technology is used primarily to establish wireless personal area networks (WPAN), commonly referred to as ad hoc or peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Bluetooth technology has been integrated into many types of business and consumer …
The Goverment Domain: Government Topics at the SLA 2008 Conference – Peggy Garvin’s article focuses on key speakers and significant issues, services and websites that hightlighted issues, initiatives and services significant to the government documents arena. Published July 9, 2008
Declaration of Leaders Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change, July 9, 2008: “We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States met as the world’s major economies in …
Bill Summary – H.R. 5811: The Electronic Message Preservation Act. Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform “Investigations by the Oversight Committee have revealed significant deficiencies in the preservation of e-mail by the White House and federal agencies. H.R. 5811, the Electronic Message Preservation Act, introduced on April 15, 2008, by …
Overview Of Selected Tax Provisions Relating To The Financing Of Surface Transportation Infrastructure, Scheduled for a Public Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Finance on July 10, 2008, Prepared by the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. “This document…provides a description of present-law provisions relating to Highway Trust Fund and its dedicated taxes, a …
Center for Contemporary Conflict: Is the Sky Falling? Energy Security and Transnational Terrorism by Dr. Michael Mihalka and Dr. David Anderson, July 2008. “This paper will assess the extent to which transnational terrorists, in particular global Jihadists associated with Osama bin Laden, have been interested in attacks against the global energy infrastructure. We then assess …
“Many developing countries are exploring whether biotechnology has a role in addressing national issues such as food security and environmental remediation, and are considering whether the putative benefits of the technology for example, enabling greater agricultural productivity and stability in the food supply outweigh concerns that the technology might pose a danger to biodiversity, health, …
