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Aviation Security: TSA’s Change to Its Prohibited Items List Has Not Resulted in Any Reported Security Incidents, but the Impact of the Change on Screening Operations Is Inconclusive, GAO-07-623R, April 25, 2007: “The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has primary responsibility for ensuring the security of civil aviation, which includes the safety of passengers and flight …
Follow up to April 18, 2007 posting, Meeting to Consider a Resolution Authorizing House Judiciary Chairman to Subpoena Monica Goodling, today’s press release, House Judiciary Committee Approves Immunity Order, Authorizes Subpoena for former DoJ Official Monica Goodling.
The Beige Book, April 25, 2007 – Summary: “Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and based on information collected before April 16, 2007. This document summarizes comments received from businesses and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials. Most Federal Reserve …
Press release: “Three-fourths of the nation’s largest newspapers now offer blogs on business-related topics, according to a study released today by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University. These popular online Web journals written by reporters get breaking news to readers more quickly, according to 60 percent of the …
Press release: “Military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can look forward to more timely receipt of benefits, better information and more streamlined processes, thanks to streamlined federal procedures announced today by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson, who chaired a presidential task force…The task force focused on improvements that could be made within the …
Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Defense Biometrics, March 2007 (178 pages, PDF). “The final reports includes overall findings and recommendations that focus on information management and sharing; R&D, material and technology; issues beyond DoD; issues internal to DoD; DoD organizational issues; and legal and privacy issues.”
OECD Factbook 2007 – Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics: “The OECD Factbook is an essential tool providing a global overview of world economic, social and environmental trends. It brings together in a single publication 100 indicators that are essential for evaluating the relative position of any OECD country, both at a given moment and over …
NTIA Fact Sheet: “In their recent announcement ranking countries on their broadband penetration, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) fails to take into consideration tens of millions of United States broadband users, including students, employees of corporations and United States Government employees, to name a few. Additionally, by neglecting to count mobile wireless …
From the Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Country Studies Program, this newly released profile of France (35 pages, PDF).
The State of Homeland Security 2007: An Annual Report Card on the Department of Homeland Security (78 pages, PDF) – “This report summarizes annual homeland security performance using a report card grading system. The report includes these categories — Border Security, Emergency Preparedness/FEMA, Emergency Communications, Aviation Security Port Security, Surface Transportation Security, Critical Infrastructure, Information …
“A report…released April 24, 2007…asserts that protecting the public health will be an early example of “Government 2.0” — government that is mission-oriented, networked, collaborative, agile and results-driven. The Web 2.0 analysis firm Government Futures released the report entitled “Public Health 2.0: Spreading like a Virus.” [via Government Technology] PDF and Detailed Survey Data
Press release: “The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA), which created the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (Board), requires that “[n]ot less frequently than annually, the Board shall prepare a report to Congress, unclassified to the greatest extent possible…on the Board’s major activities during the preceding period.” This report discusses the …