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Defense Management: New Management Reform Program Still Evolving

Description: A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Secretary of Defense announced a new business transformation program in 2001 with the intent of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of Department of Defense business operations. Concerned that the previous administration's Defense Reform Initiatives (DRI) could not be successful without many years of sustained effort, the Senate Committee on Armed Services issued a September 2001 report directing … more
Date: December 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Courthouse Construction: Information on Courtroom Sharing

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In recent years, concerns have been raised that new courtrooms continue to be built for district judges, even though existing courtrooms appear to be under used. The judiciary wants to maintain its one-judge, one-courtroom policy because of concerns about the effect of shared courtroom space on judicial administration. The judiciary has not, however, determined whether courtroom sharing may be possible among s… more
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DOD Overseas Schools: Compensation Adequate for Recruiting and Retaining Well-Qualified Teachers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) overseas schools educate more than 70,000 children of military service members and DOD civilian employees throughout the world. In order to ensure the continued success of this school system, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 directed GAO to assess whether the DOD overseas teachers' compensation package is adequate to recruit and retain qualified teache… more
Date: December 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Veterans Affairs: Sustained Management Attention Is Key to Achieving Information Technology Results

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made important progress in raising corporate awareness of the department's information technology (IT) needs and in taking actions to improve key areas of IT performance. Nevertheless, the department has significant work to accomplish in order to use IT investments to improve mission performance. VA has taken important steps in laying the groundwork for an integrated… more
Date: June 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Privacy: Status of State Actions on Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act's Privacy Provisions

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Subtitle A of Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) of 1999 requires that each financial institution, which is defined to include most insurance providers or companies, has "an affirmative and continuing obligation to respect the privacy of its customers and to protect the security and confidentiality of those customers' nonpublic personal information." This prohibits the disclosure of consumers' nonpub… more
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicaid and SCHIP: Recent HHS Approvals of Demonstration Waiver Projects Raise Concerns

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "States provide health care coverage to about 40 million uninsured, low-income adults and children under two federal-state programs--Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). To receive federal funding, states must meet statutory requirements, including providing certain levels of benefits to specified populations. Under section 1115 of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health … more
Date: July 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Transfers: Use by Federal Payment Recipients Has Increased but Obstacles to Greater Participation Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 2001, the Department of the Treasury made 764 million payments valued at $549 billion to beneficiaries of federal programs, primarily programs administered by the Social Security Administration. Of these payments, 76 percent were made using electronic funds transfers (EFTs), potentially saving the government millions of dollars in costs associated with disbursing paper checks. In 1996, Congress passed legis… more
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Commissaries: Additional Small Business Opportunities Should Be Explored

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Some grocery supermarket companies have been charging food product manufacturers "slotting fees" to place products in stores and have involved large product manufacturers in making decisions about what products to sell. These practices have raised concerns about anticompetitive behavior and may be adversely affecting small businesses. GAO was asked (1) if the Defense Commissary Agency is using these practices … more
Date: December 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Management Systems: IRS's Systems for Frontline Employees and Managers Align with Strategic Goals but Improvements Can Be Made

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) established critical job responsibilities for group managers and frontline employees that align with each of the agency's three strategic goals. In the group managers' performance management system, all of the supporting behaviors clearly align with the critical job responsibilities. However, for frontline employees, the supporting behaviors do not always align with IRS's des… more
Date: July 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Decisionmaking Process for Its Route and Service Proposals

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In light of its continuing financial deterioration and its stated goal of eliminating federal operating assistance by December 2002, Amtrak undertook several steps to improve its financial condition, including changing in its routes and services. Amtrak has been unsuccessful in implementing its Network Growth Strategy to shift its route and service plans for new routes and expanded services on the freight trac… more
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gun Control: Opportunities to Close Loopholes in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) searches state criminal history records to prevent gun sales to ineligible persons. GAO found that state firearm laws and procedures may affect how these records are used by NICS. Each of the six states GAO surveyed had some mechanism by which persons with criminal convictions could have their rights to own a firearm restored. The six states typicall… more
Date: July 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Trade: Mitigating National Security Concerns under Exon-Florio Could Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Exon-Florio amendment to the Defense Production Act authorizes the President to suspend or prohibit foreign acquisitions, mergers, or takeovers of U.S. companies if (1) there is credible evidence that a foreign controlling interest might threaten national security and (2) legislation, other than Exon-Florio and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, does not adequately or appropriately protect na… more
Date: September 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Missile Defense: Knowledge-Based Decision Making Needed to Reduce Risks in Developing Airborne Laser

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Air Force launched an acquisition program to develop and produce a revolutionary laser weapon system, known as the Airborne Laser, in 1996. Being developed for installation in a modified Boeing 747 aircraft, it is intended to destroy enemy ballistic missiles almost immediately after their launch. The Air Force originally estimated development costs at $2.5 billion and projected fielding of the system in 20… more
Date: July 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coast Guard: Strategy Needed for Setting and Monitoring Levels of Effort for All Missions

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The September 11th attacks affected the scope of activities of many federal agencies, including the Coast Guard. Homeland security, a long-standing but relatively small part of the Coast Guard's duties, took center stage. Still, the Coast Guard remains responsible for many other missions, such as helping stem the flow of drugs and illegal migration, protecting important fishing grounds, and responding to marin… more
Date: November 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Private Pensions: IRS Can Improve the Quality and Usefulness of Compliance Studies

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) studied 401(k) plan compliance with Internal Revenue Code requirements for tax-qualified plans. GAO found that IRS's estimates of noncompliance were inaccurate. The study, which audited a sample of 401(k) plans, did not provide information on the severity of the compliance violations identified and did not determine the number of plan participants or the amount of assets asso… more
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Air Pollution: Emissions from Older Electricity Generating Units

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Although fossil fuels--coal, natural gas, and oil--account for more than two thirds of the nation's electricity, generating units that burn these fuels are major sources of airborne emissions that pose health and environmental risks. To limit emissions and protect air quality, the Environmental Protection Agency regulates emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from a variety of sources including elect… more
Date: June 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SEC Enforcement: More Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Disgorgement Collections

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Every year investors lose money to individuals and corporations that violate federal securities laws. One mission of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to deter such violations and return lost funds to investors. SEC's primary tool is the disgorgement order, which requires violators to give up money obtained through securities law violations. In order for disgorgement to succeed, SEC must have an … more
Date: July 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Inventory: Improved Industrial Base Assessments for Army War Reserve Spares Could Save Money

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army's approach to assessing wartime spare parts industrial base capability does not use current data from industry. Instead, the Army uses historical parts procurement data because its prior efforts to collect current data from industry were not successful due to poor response rates. GAO identified a program in the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) that has several attributes reflecting sound management prac… more
Date: July 12, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of Vadose Zone Sediment: Uncontaminated RCRA Borehole Core Samples and Composite Samples

Description: The overall goal of the of the Tank Farm Vadose Zone Project, led by CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc., is to define risks from past and future single-shell tank farm activities. To meet this goal, CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc. asked scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to perform detailed analyses on vadose zone sediment from within the S-SX Waste Management Area. This report is the first in a series of four reports to present the results of these analyses. Specifically, this repo… more
Date: February 12, 2002
Creator: Serne, R. Jeffrey; Bjornstad, Bruce N.; Schaef, Herbert T.; Williams, Bruce A.; Lanigan, David C.; Horton, Duane G. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluation of Cloud Parameterizations in a High Resolution Atmospheric General Circulation Model Using ARM Data

Description: Typical state of the art atmospheric general circulation models used in climate change studies have horizontal resolution of approximately 300 km. As computing power increases, many climate modeling groups are working toward enhancing the resolution of global models. An important issue that arises when resolution of a model is changed is whether cloud and convective parameterizations, which were developed for use at coarser resolutions, will need to be reformulated or re-tuned. We propose to in… more
Date: April 12, 2002
Creator: Govindasamy, B & Duffy, P
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optimization of Hydroacoustic Deployments at John Day Dam

Description: This report describes short-term studies conducted in late November and early December 2001 to optimize hydroacoustic sampling techniques for John Day Dam before the 2002 fish passage efficiency (FPE) study. Knowledge gained in this study should significantly improve hydroacoustic sampling and the accuracy of estimates of fish passage at two locations that have presented problems in past studies. The spillway has been most problematic because many fish detected there were not entrained. Without… more
Date: November 12, 2002
Creator: Ploskey, Gene R.; Cook, Christopher B.; Titzler, P. Scott & Moursund, Russell A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Connecting to the Internet Securely: Windows 2000 CIAC-2321

Description: As the threat to computer systems increases with the increasing use of computers as a tool in daily business activities, the need to securely configure those systems becomes more important. There are far too many intruders with access to the Internet and the skills and time to spend compromising systems to not spend the time necessary to securely configure a system. Hand-in-hand with the increased need for security are an increased number of items that need to be securely configured. Windows 20… more
Date: March 12, 2002
Creator: Orvis, W; Call, K & Dias, J
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Generalized System of Preferences

Description: This report provides information about the Generalized System of Preferences which provides duty-free treatment for products that are imported from some designated countries. The main purpose is to promote economic growth.
Date: August 12, 2002
Creator: Cooper, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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