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The ONC [Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology] Coordinated Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan: 2008-2012 – Using the Power of Information Technology to Transform Health and Care. “The Plan has two goals, Patient-focused Health Care and Population Health, with four objectives under each goal. The themes of privacy and security, interoperability, …
“This online Guide to the House and Senate Members of the 110th Congress is intended to be a single point of access for Member information from several different official sources. Both congressional offices and the public will be able to: Access data concerning House and Senate Members from various publications including: the Congressional Pictorial Directory, …
News release: “A WRI [World Resources Institute] analysis of the complex challenges that investors would face when deploying carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies shows that until government policies support large-scale demonstrations it is unlikely that CCS will be able to fulfill its potential in combating climate change. Carbon capture and storage, the process whereby …
RAND Counterinsurgency Study, Volume 2, Counterinsurgency in Iraq (20032006), by Bruce R. Pirnie and Edward O’ Connell. “The difficulties encountered by the United States in securing Iraq and Afghanistan despite years of effort and staggering costs raises the central question of the RAND Counterinsurgency Study: How should the United States improve its capabilities to counter …
Federal Disability Programs: Coordination Could Facilitate Better Data Collection to Assess the Status of People with Disabilities, GAO-08-872T, June 04, 2008 Combating Terrorism: Guidance for State Department’s Antiterrorism Assistance Program Is Limited and State Does Not Systematically Assess Outcomes, GAO-08-875T, June 04, 2008 Management Report: Improvements Needed in IRS’s Internal Controls, GAO-08-368R, June 04, 2008 …
OECD Economic Outlook No. 83, June 2008: Twice a year, the OECD Economic Outlook analyses the major trends and examines the economic policies required to foster high and sustainable growth in member countries. This issue will cover the outlook to end-2009. This issue contains a special chapter entitled The implications of supply-side uncertainties for economic …
Executive Office of the President: Expanding E-Government – Achieving Results for the American People, May 2008. “The Federal Government continues to improve services and deliver results through the adoption and implementation of the E-Government (E-Gov) initiatives and common government wide solutions. The departments and agencies continue to make great improvements in the area of security …
News release: “For the third consecutive year the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Specifically, U.S. wind power capacity increased by 46 percent in 2007, representing a $9 billion …
National Academies, Managing Space Radiation Risk in the New Era of Space Exploration, Committee on the Evaluation of Radiation Shielding for Space Exploration, National Research Council, 2008. “Summary Space exploration is a risky enterprise. Rockets launch astronauts at tremendous speeds into a harsh, unforgiving environment. Spacecraft must withstand the bitter cold of space and the …
The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries, by David Ochmanek, Lowell H. Schwartz “North Koreas test of a nuclear weapon in 2006 shows that such weapons are within reach of determined regional powers. Thus, defense planners in the United States and elsewhere must begin now to confront the new security challenges posed by nuclear-armed regional adversaries. …
Audit Initiated of the Web Applications Security in Air Traffic Control Systems, June 02, 2008. Project ID: 07F3018F000 “Summary: The Office of Inspector General is initiating an audit of web applications security in air traffic control (ATC) systems in response to a request made by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. …
Freedom, Security, Privacy European Home Affairs in an open world – Report of the Informal High Level Advisory Group on the Future of European Home Affairs Policy (“The Future Group”), June 2008
