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Information Technology: DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting Goals and Satisfying Customers, Full-text GAO-07-51, and Highlights, December 8, 2006. “The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is a 10-year, $9.3 billion information technology services program. Through a performance-based contract, the Navy is buying network (intranet), application, and other hardware and …
Audit of Targeting Oceangoing Cargo Containers (Unclassified Summary), OIG-07-09 (PDF, 7 pages), December 8, 2006.
“The SAFECOM program fielded the National Interoperability Baseline Survey May-July 2006. By providing a clear representation of national capacities, survey findings will help emergency response leaders and policy makers make informed decisions about strategies for improving interoperability. Major Baseline Survey findings include the following: About two-thirds of agencies report using interoperability to some degree in …
Roll Call: “The House ethics committee’s report on the scandal surrounding ex-Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) behavior with House pages says no Members or staff committed any formal violations of the chamber’s ethics rules in their handling of the issue…” U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Investigation of Allegations Related to improper …
Press release: “The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a bill authored by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Norm Coleman (R-MN), and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) that would extend the term of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). Without this legislation, the SIGIRs term would expire on October 1, 2007. This legislation, which …
Department of Energy Office of Inspector General Audit Report, The Department of Energy’s Use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, December 2006.
Executive Order 13416–Strengthening Surface Transportation Security, Presidential Documents: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the security of the Nation’s surface transportation systems and thereby enhance the protection of the people, property, and territory of the United States of …
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) press release: “defiance of Congressional requests to immediately halt closures of library collections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is purging records from its library websites, making them unavailable to both agency scientists and outside researchers, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the …
Press release: “The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has earned an unqualified opinion on its 2006 financial statements, the third straight year in which independent auditors have performed an extensive examination of the EEOC’s financial records and reported a clean fiscal bill of health for the federal agency. The audit report is a focus …
Department of Defense Draft Emergency Supplemental Budget Request, December 7, 2006: “This draft budget requests an additional $99.7 billion for fighting the global war on terror in 2007.” [Via the Council on Foreign Relations]
Dropout Rates in the United States: 2004 “This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout and completion rates that began in 1988. It presents estimates of rates for 2004, and provides data about trends in dropout and completion rates over the last three decades (19722004), …
Press release: “The Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Energy (DOE) today announced the first phase of the Secure Freight Initiative, an unprecedented effort to build upon existing port security measures by enhancing the federal governments ability to scan containers for nuclear and radiological materials overseas and to better assess the risk of inbound containers. …
