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The FBI Strategic Plan, 2004-2009 (132 pages, PDF): “The FBI Strategic Plan 2004-2009 serves as a high-level road map for the next five years, with strategic goals and objectives that address the mission of the FBI and fulfill the imperatives of the President, the Attorney General, and the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). This document …
Press release: “The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) today launched a newly designed and automated Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). DIRS is a voluntary, efficient, web-based system that communications companies, including wireless, wireline, broadcast, and cable providers, can use to report communications infrastructure status and situational awareness …
Press release: “A child born in the United States in 2005 can expect to live nearly 78 years (77.9) a new high according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2005. The report from CDCs National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is …
AP: “Ten years after Congress ordered federal agencies to have outside auditors review their books, neither the Defense Department nor the newer Department of Homeland Security has met even basic accounting requirements, leaving them vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse. An Associated Press review shows that the two departments financial records are so disorganized and …
“The OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development has just released a thorough 57-page study on the costs, efficiency and environmental impact of biofuels.” See Biofuels: is the cure worse than the disease? (57 pages, PDF): “136. There is little doubt that current patterns of fossil fuel-based energy use are unsustainable and that a change in …
Press release: “Today the National Security Archive publishes a collection of documents concerning the use of U.S. reconnaissance satellites to collect data on targets within the United States over the last four decades. This new publication follows the August 15, 2007, revelation in the Wall Street Journal that the United States is planning to expand …
Motor Carrier Safety: Federal Safety Agency Identifies Many High-Risk Carriers but Does Not Assess Maximum Fines as Often as Required by Law, GAO-07-584, August 28, 2007, Full Report (PDF, 67 pages) Quadrennial Defense Review: Future Reviews Could Benefit from Improved Department of Defense Analyses and Changes to Legislative Requirements, GAO-07-709, September 14, 2007, Full Report …
“The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made available to the public an unclassified version of an annual report to Congress outlining the previous years security inspection program. The report is required under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The report covers the security inspection program, including force-on-force exercises, for commercial power reactors and certain fuel …
Press release: HHS OIG OIG’s New Resource Guide on Corporate Responsibility and Healthcare Quality Corporate Responsibility and Health Care Quality A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors, September 13, 2007 (11 pages, PDF)
Benchmark Assessment Report (28 pages, PDF) “This report is submitted consistent with Section 1314 of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law 110-28) (the Act). It includes an assessment of how the sovereign Government of Iraq is performing in its efforts to achieve a series of …
“This website contains the monthly receipts, outlays and deficit/surplus of the United States, for fiscal years 1981-2007. The figures are published monthly in Table 1 of the Monthly Treasury Statement, and are not amended due to backdated transactions.” Monthly Treasury Statement, August 2007: August 2007 Revised 9/13/07 at 4:30p.m – PDF | ASCII Quick Links …
Congressional Budget Office – Replacing and Repairing Equipment Used In Iraq and Afghanistan: The Army’s Reset Program, September 2007 (58 pages, PDF): “To date, the Army has received $38 billion to replace, repair, and recondition equipment that has been lost, damaged or used extensively in conducting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
