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Improved Administration Can Enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection Classified Laptop Computer Security, Unclassified Summary, OIG-06-64 (PDF, 3 pages) November 1, 2006. Improved Administration Can Enchance Science and Technology Classified Laptop Computer Security, OIG-06-63, Unclassified Summary, (PDF, 3 pages) November 1, 2006.
Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report: “TRB’s Cooperative Research Program produces a table summarizing more than 60 security and emergency preparedness projects representing over $9 million in the contract research programs for state departments of transportation and the public transportation industry. Updated monthly. Posted on November 1, 2006.” Transportation Security: A Summary of Transportation …
North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Motivations, Implications, and U.S. Options, October 24, 2006 (22 pages, PDF)
U.S. News reports on a range of new programs sponsored by DHS that leverage innovative technology applications (wikis and blogs) and educational programs to expand and improve the effectiveness of homeland security goals and objectives. Reuters: Gov’t unveils a Wikipedia for spies – Analysts can add and edit content on government’s classified Web site
Library of Congress- Federal Research Division Country Profiles: Russia, October 2006 and Bulgaria, October 2006.
Federal Register Notice of updated guidelines, October 31, 2006: The U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”)[has] publish[ed] an updated version of its Anti-Terrorist Financing Guidelines: Voluntary Best Practices for U.S.-Based Charities (“Guidelines”) along with a new Annex. Related Treasury resources on Protecting Charitable organizations
CBO – Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2007, October 2006 (32 pages, PDF).
Press release, October 30, 2006: “HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced the publication of the 2006 edition of the popular Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines. Based on the latest research, the Guidelines now include over 40 new or updated guidelines and have become a primary resource for government and other Web communicators. The updated …
Recruiting, Retention, and Future Levels of Military Personnel, October 2006
Voter Identification and Citizenship Requirements: Legislation in the 109th Congress, September 18, 2006.
From DHS, this report concerns the upcoming implementation of RFID in ID cards for U.S. citizens, effective for those returning to the country by air, in 2007: Privacy Impact Assessment for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), August 11, 2006. From EPIC, Spotlight on Surveillance August 2006: Homeland Security PASS Card: Leave Home Without It …
Rotenberg, Marc, “The Sui Generis Privacy Agency: How the United States Institutionalized Privacy Oversight After 9-11” (September 28, 2006). Available at SSRN. “This article looks at the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, the President’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Oversight Board, and the Civil Liberties Protection Officer of the Office of the …
