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Contract Management: INS Contracting Weaknesses Need Attention from the Department of Homeland Security

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "With annual obligations for goods and services totaling $1.7 billion, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is one of the largest of 23 entities coming into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). INS's procurement organization will continue to acquire goods and services under DHS. GAO was asked to review INS's contracting processes to assess whether INS has an adequate infrastructure to manage i… more
Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recreation Fees: Information on Forest Service Management of Revenue from the Fee Demonstration Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1996, federal land management agencies have collected over $900 million in recreation fees from the public under an experimental initiative called the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program. Under the trial program, the Congress authorized the four federal land management agencies, including the Forest Service, to charge fees to visitors and to retain the revenues for use in addition to other appropriate… more
Date: April 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Retirement Income: Intergenerational Comparisons of Wealth and Future Income

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Today's workers will rely to a large extent on Social Security, private pensions, and personal wealth for their retirement income. But some analysts question whether these sources will provide sufficient retirement income to maintain workers' standards of living once they leave the labor force. Indeed, the Social Security trust funds are projected to become exhausted in 2042, at which time, unless action is ta… more
Date: April 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Container Security: Expansion of Key Customs Programs Will Require Greater Attention to Critical Success Factors

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since September 11, 2001, concern has increased that terrorists could smuggle weapons of mass destruction in the 7 million ocean containers that arrive annually at U.S. seaports. In response to this concern, the U.S. Customs Service (Customs) implemented the Container Security Initiative (CSI) to screen for high-risk containers at overseas ports and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) to improv… more
Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foreign Assistance: Sustained Efforts Needed to Help Southern Africa Recover from Food Crisis

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The southern Africa food crisis threatened 15.3 million people in six countries (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) with famine. GAO was asked to look at (1) factors that contributed to the crisis, (2) how well the populations' needs were met, (3) obstacles to the food aid effort, and (4) challenges to emerging from crisis."
Date: June 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Student Loans and Foreign Schools: Assessing Risks Could Help Education Reduce Program Vulnerability

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Recent events have increased concerns about the potential for fraud in Education's student loan programs related to loans for U.S. residents attending foreign schools. In 2002, GAO's Office of Special Investigations created a fictitious foreign school that Education subsequently certified as eligible to participate in the student loan program. GAO investigators subsequently successfully obtained approval for s… more
Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Workforce Investment Act: Issues Related to Allocation Formulas for Youth, Adults, and Dislocated Workers

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 required states to streamline employment and training services and established three separate funding streams for serving youth, adults, and dislocated workers, for which about $3.3 billion was appropriated for fiscal year 2003. The formulas for distributing these funds to the states were left largely unchanged from those used to distribute funds under the Job Trainin… more
Date: April 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Technology: Executive office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) of the Department of Justice is responsible for managing information technology (IT) resources for the United States Attorneys' Offices. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which EOUSA has institutionalized key IT management capabilities that are critical to achieving Justice's strategic goal of improving the integrity, security, and efficiency of i… more
Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Technology: DOD Needs to Leverage Lessons Learned from Its Outsourcing Projects

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Given the magnitude of its reported spending on information technology (IT) services--more than $6.2 billion in fiscal year 2001--it is critical that the Department of Defense (DOD) adopt effective practices for acquiring IT services. GAO researched leading commercial practices for the outsourcing of IT services, and, in November 2001, published a framework consisting of seven phases that span the full range o… more
Date: April 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the process of modernizing its information technology (IT) systems. Replacing much of its 1980s-based technology with modern system applications and a robust technical infrastructure, this modernization is intended to enable the FBI to take an integrated approach--coordinated agencywide--to performing its critical missions, such as federal crime investigation and… more
Date: September 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Death Care Industry: Regulation Varies across States and by Industry Segment

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Media reports of desecration of graves and human remains and other types of mismanagement at cemeteries and crematories have inspired a debate regarding whether the federal government should take on a greater role in regulating the death care industry, primarily funeral homes, crematories, cemeteries, pre-need sales of funeral plans, and third party sales of funeral goods. The federal government has a limited … more
Date: August 25, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Postal Reform

Description: This report includes background and analysis of the United States postal reform. Causes of financial crisis, transformative plans, and activity from past congresses are also discussed in this report.
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Stevens, Nye
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate and Omnibus Energy Legislation (H.R. 6)

Description: This report includes background and analysis on the debate on energy policy, as well as Omnibus energy legislation. Electricity restructuring, nuclear energy, and renewable energy and fuels are among topics discussed in this report.
Date: November 25, 2003
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Advanced Technology Program

Description: This report discuses the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) that was created by P.L. 100-418, the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, to encourage public-private cooperation in the development of pre-competitive technologies with broad application across industries
Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Package for Groundwater Monitoring Well 299-W15-43 at the 200-ZP-1 Operable Unit

Description: One new groundwater monitoring well was constructed at the 200-ZP-1 Operable Unit in November 2002. This document provides the information on drilling and construction of this well. One new groundwater monitoring well was constructed in the 200-ZP-1 Operable Unit in November 2002. The purpose of the well is to monitor carbon tetrachloride concentrations in response to the 200-ZP-1 carbon tetrachloride pump-and-treat operations. The well name is 299-W15-43 and the corresponding well number is C3… more
Date: April 25, 2003
Creator: Horton, Duane G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Receptor Specific Ligands for Spect Imaging

Description: In the past funding period we have concentrated in developing new 99mTc labeled MIBG analogs. Basic chemistry of ligand synthesis, radiochemistry of Re and 99mTc complex formation, separation of stereoisomers and in vitro stability were investigated. We have prepared a number of new MIBG derivatives containing chelating moiety N2S2 and additional groups to increase lipophilicity. Unfortunately none of the new 99mTc labeled MIBG analogs showed promise as an imaging agent for myocardial neuronal … more
Date: February 25, 2003
Creator: Kung, H. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Underground Layout Configuration

Description: The purpose of this analysis was to develop an underground layout to support the license application (LA) design effort. In addition, the analysis will be used as the technical basis for the underground layout general arrangement drawings.
Date: September 25, 2003
Creator: Linden, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proteomics: Technology and Applications

Description: This meeting took place at the Keystone, Colorado resort from March 25-30, 2003. It was attended by 206 participants, of which 35 were students; 39% of attendees submitted abstracts. The meeting had 30% returning attendees and 70% new attendees. The group of speakers was composed of internationally recruited junior and senior experts in their respective fields. The group included representatives from academia and the private sector, highlights the convergence of proteomics efforts in the two se… more
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Aebersold, Ruedi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fibrous Monolith Wear Resistant Components for the Mining Industry Semi-Annual Report: Number 4

Description: During the reporting period, work continued on development of formulations using the materials down-selected from the initially identified contenders for the fibrous monolith wear resistant components. In the previous reporting period, a two-stage binder removal process was developed that resulted in prototype parts free of voids and other internal defects. During the current reporting period, work was performed to characterize the two-stage binder removal process for WC-Co based FM material sy… more
Date: March 25, 2003
Creator: Rigali, Mark J. & Fulcher, Mike L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fracture toughness and crack growth rates of irradiated austenitic stainless steels.

Description: Austenitic stainless steels (SSs) are used extensively as structural alloys in the internal components of reactor pressure vessels because of their superior fracture toughness properties. However, exposure to high levels of neutron irradiation for extended periods leads to significant reduction in the fracture resistance of these steels. Experimental data are presented on fracture toughness and crack growth rates (CGRs) of austenitic SSs irradiated to fluence levels up to 2.0 x 10{sup 21} n/cm{… more
Date: June 25, 2003
Creator: Chopra, O. K.; Gruber, E. E. & Shack, W. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High Pressure Coal Combustion Kinetics Project

Description: NEA completed the CFD simulations for all NBFZ tests. SRI resumed work on HPBO experiments and conducted preliminary tests using the UCONN impactor. UCONN prepared several samples of char for cross-sectional analysis by SEM and characterization is underway. BU completed the NBFZ char characterization program. CBK model had been implemented into Fluent.
Date: July 25, 2003
Creator: Orsino, Stefano
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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