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Best Practices: Better Matching of Needs and Resources Will Lead to Better Weapon System Outcomes

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report examines how best practices offer improvements to the way the Department of Defense defines and matches weapon system requirements to available resources such as cost, schedule, and mature technologies. GAO identified three factors that were key to matching needs and resources before product development began. First, developers employed the technique of systems engineering to identify gaps between… more
Date: March 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Navy Spare Parts Quality Deficiency Reporting Program Needs Improvement

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) budgets billions of dollars each year to purchase and repair the spare parts needed to maintain its weapons systems and support equipment. The quality of the spare parts can greatly determine if the Department's investment of funds is effective, efficient, and economical. This report examines the Navy's Product Quality Deficiency Reporting Program and the extent to which the pr… more
Date: August 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intercollegiate Athletics: Four-Year Colleges' Experiences Adding and Discontinuing Teams

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The number of women participating in intercollegiate athletics at four-year colleges and universities increased substantially between school years 1981-82 and 1998-99, while the number of men participating increased more modestly. The total number of women's teams increased by 3,784 teams, compared to an increase of 36 men's teams. In all, 963 schools added teams and 307 discontinued teams since 1992-93. The t… more
Date: March 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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District of Columbia: Comments on Fiscal Year 2000 Performance Report

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The District of Columbia's fiscal year 2000 performance report is an improvement in that it meets some of the statutory requirements that the previous year's report did not. However, the extensive changes that the District made to its fiscal year 2000 performance goals during the fiscal year undermine the report's usefulness because the District did not include critical information needed by Congress and other… more
Date: June 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Power: The Evolution of Preference in Marketing Federal Power

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress has enacted many statutes that designate types of customers or geographic areas for preference and priority in purchasing electricity from federal agencies. In general, the preference has been intended to (1) direct the benefits of public resources--relatively inexpensive hydropower--to portions of the public through nonprofit entities, (2) spread the benefits of federally generated hydropower widely … more
Date: February 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quality Assurance: The Fastener Quality Act's Small-Lot Exemption

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report reviews changes in fastener industry practice "resulting from or apparently resulting from" the small-lot exemption of the Fastener Quality Act. GAO found no evidence that the fastener industry changed any practices resulting from, or apparently resulting from, the small-lot exemption. The Customs Service's limited tests of imported fasteners in 2001 found no evidence of substandard fasteners and n… more
Date: June 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Achieve Greater Results From Air Force Family Need Assessments

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To help military families adapt and function effectively in military life, the Department of Defense (DOD) funds a wide variety of personnel and family support programs. These programs use a combination of direct assistance and information and referral to help with crises, deployments, moves, child care, personal financial management, parenting, and transition out of the service. To efficiently distribute fund… more
Date: March 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Olympic Games: Costs to Plan and Stage the Games in the United States

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1980, the Winter and Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games hosted in the United States have increased in size and magnitude, as have the total direct costs to plan and stage them. The reported direct costs to plan and stage the games discussed in this report ranged from $363 million to more than $2.4 billion. Although the total dollar amount of federal funding and support has increased, the total federal s… more
Date: November 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: Status of IRS' Efforts to Develop Measures of Voluntary Compliance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. tax system is based on voluntary reporting. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reviews all tax returns after they are filed to ensure compliance with tax laws governing this voluntary system. Despite these efforts, each year billions of dollars in taxes owed are not voluntarily reported and paid, which could result in reduced revenue to fund federal programs, higher tax rates, or both. There are three… more
Date: June 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Monetary Fund: Few Changes Evident in Design of New Lending Program for Poor Countries

Description: A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The effectiveness and appropriateness of the International Monetary Fund's lending programs to poor countries have been widely debated, generally centering on whether the program has improved these countries' economies. In response to some of these concerns and as part of a concerted international effort to reduce poverty, the Fund expanded the goals of its lending program to its poorest members in 1999 to in… more
Date: May 8, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Experimental Evaluation of Tude Support Plate Crevice Chemistry

Description: A test methodology for measuring temperature, impedance, pH, and electrochemical potential distributions within a sludge-packed tube support plate crevice in a laboratory test is described. The method successfully showed that there were large concentration gradients between the tube and tube support plate sides of the crevice. The testing also showed that strong bases concentrated more effectively than strong acids, and that the crevice pH, when exposed to seawater-based solutions, increased wi… more
Date: May 8, 2001
Creator: Baum, Allen
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Magnetically Collimated Energy Transport by Laser Generated Relativistic Electrons

Description: The possibility of fast ignition of thermo-nuclear fusion is stimulating research interest and activity worldwide. Fast ignition (FI) offers significantly higher gain than conventional spark ignition and the high gain opens the way to an efficient fusion energy producing cycle with laser drivers. The key to FI is the efficient transport of energy from a short pulse laser beam, the igniter, to a small ignition spark in compressed deuterium-tritium fuel. The primary candidate process enabling suc… more
Date: February 8, 2001
Creator: Key, M H
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reconciliation Report

Description: Reconciliation report with an ending account balance of $454.75 reconciled for the period ending on July 31, 2001.
Date: August 8, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Hanford Site Environmental Surveillance Master Sampling Schedule, January 2001

Description: This document contains the CY 2001 schedules for the routine collection of samples for the Surface Environmental Surveillance Project (SESP) and Drinking Water Monitoring Project. Each section includes sampling locations, sample types, and analyses to be performed.
Date: January 8, 2001
Creator: Bisping, Lynn E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report Recommended Actions to Reduce Electrical Peak Loads at the Marine Corps Air Station at Camp Pendleton, California

Description: PNNL conducted a walk-through audit of Marine Corps Air Station at Camp Pendleton. The audit inspected a significant portion of the site and identified a large number of similar energy saving opportunities across all building types.
Date: May 8, 2001
Creator: Hail, John C.; Brown, Daryl R.; McCullough, Jeffrey J. & Underhill, Ronald M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Verification Of Energy Balance In The Ansys V5.4 Thermal Calculations

Description: The objective of this calculation is to verify the energy balance of the thermal calculations analyzed by ANSYS Version (V) 5.4 solver (see Section 4). The scope of this calculation is limited to calculating the energy balance of a two-dimensional repository thermal representation using the temperatures obtained from ANSYS V5.4. The procedure, AP-3.124, Calculations (Ref. 3), and the Technical Work Plan for: Waste Package Design Description for LA (Ref. 2) are used to develop this calculation. … more
Date: February 8, 2001
Creator: Marr, H. & Anderson, M. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electrical Sitchgear Building No. 5010-ESF Fire Hazards Technical Report

Description: The purpose of this Fire Hazards Analysis Technical Report (hereinafter referred to as Technical Report) is to assess the risk from fire within individual fire areas to ascertain whether the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) fire safety objectives are met. The objectives, identified in DOE Order 420.1, Change 2, Fire Safety, Section 4.2, establish requirements for a comprehensive fire and related hazards protection program for facilities sufficient to minimize the potential for: (1) The occurrenc… more
Date: May 8, 2001
Creator: Ruonavaara, N.M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Look at the AP2 Beamline

Description: Some recent work has been done to look at improvements of transporting beam from the Lithium Lens to the Debuncher. This work has been done using the beamline modeling tools developed by Dave McGinnis. These tools, console application P143 and optimization code running MAD repeatedly on the Beam Physics UNIX system, were first used to match the Twiss and dispersion parameters at the end of AP2 to the Debuncher. Imaginary trims were then added to AP2 to study where additional trims could be used… more
Date: January 8, 2001
Creator: Gollwitzer, Keith
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Microstructural and Microchemical Characterization of Dual Step Aged Alloy X-750 and its Relationship to Environmentally Assisted Cracking

Description: When exposed to deaerated high purity water, Alloy X-750 is susceptible to both high temperature (> 249 C) intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) and intergranular low temperature (< 149 C) fracture (LTF). However, the microstructural and microchemical factors that govern environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) susceptibility are poorly understood. The present study seeks to characterize the grain boundary microstructure and microchemistry in order to gain a better mechanistic un… more
Date: May 8, 2001
Creator: Young, G.A.; Lewis, N.; Hanson, M.; Matuszyk, W.; Wiersma, B. & Gonzalez, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of the Nickel/Nickel Oxide Phase Transition in High Temperature Hydrogenated Water Using the Contact Electric Resistance (CER) Technique

Description: Prior studies of Alloy 600 and Alloy X-750 have shown the existence of a maximum in stress corrosion cracking (SCC) susceptibility in high temperature water (e.g., at 360 C), when testing is conducted over a range of dissolved (i.e., aqueous) hydrogen (H{sub 2}) concentrations. It has also been shown that this maximum in SCC susceptibility tends to occur in proximity to the nickel/nickel oxide (Ni/NiO) phase transition, suggesting that oxide phase stability may affect primary water SCC (PWSCC) … more
Date: May 8, 2001
Creator: Attanasio, S. A.; Morton, D. S.; Ando, M. A.; Panayotou, N. F. & Thompson, C. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERING AND SPATIAL-TEMPORAL RELATIONS IN THE VICINITY OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA

Description: It is well accepted that the 1992 M 5.6 Little Skull Mountain earthquake, the largest historical event to have occurred within 25 km of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was triggered by the M 7.2 Landers earthquake that occurred the day before. On the premise that earthquakes can be triggered by applied stresses, we have examined the earthquake catalog from the Southern Great Basin Digital Seismic Network (SGBDSN) for other evidence of triggering by external and internal stresses. This catalog now compr… more
Date: February 8, 2001
Creator: na
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MONITORED GEOLOGIC REPOSITORY LIFE CYCLE COST ESTIMATE ASSUMPTIONS DOCUMENT

Description: The purpose of this assumptions document is to provide general scope, strategy, technical basis, schedule and cost assumptions for the Monitored Geologic Repository (MGR) life cycle cost (LCC) estimate and schedule update incorporating information from the Viability Assessment (VA) , License Application Design Selection (LADS), 1999 Update to the Total System Life Cycle Cost (TSLCC) estimate and from other related and updated information. This document is intended to generally follow the assump… more
Date: February 8, 2001
Creator: Sweeney, R.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of On-Site Power Opportunities in the Industrial Sector

Description: The purpose of this report is to identify the potential for on-site power generation in the U.S. industrial sector with emphasis on nine industrial groups called the ''Industries of the Future'' (IOFs) by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Through its Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT), the DOE has teamed with the IOFs to develop collaborative strategies for improving productivity, global competitiveness, energy usage and environmental performance. Total purchases for electricity and ste… more
Date: October 8, 2001
Creator: Bryson, T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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