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GAO Audit of Navy Marine Corps Intranet

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Information Technology: DOD Needs to Ensure That Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Is Meeting Goals and Satisfying Customers, Full-text GAO-07-51, and Highlights, December 8, 2006.

  • “The Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is a 10-year, $9.3 billion information technology services program. Through a performance-based contract, the Navy is buying network (intranet), application, and other hardware and software services at a fixed price per unit (or “seat”) to support about 550 sites…NMCI has not met its two strategic goals–to provide information superiority and to foster innovation via interoperability and shared services.”

    • Findings of National Interoperability Baseline Survey

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    “The SAFECOM program fielded the National Interoperability Baseline Survey May-July 2006. By providing a clear representation of national capacities, survey findings will help emergency response leaders and policy makers make informed decisions about strategies for improving interoperability. Major Baseline Survey findings include the following: About two-thirds of agencies report using interoperability to some degree in… Continue Reading

    Investigation of Allegations Related to Improper Conduct Involving Members and Current or Former House Pages

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    Roll Call: “The House ethics committee’s report on the scandal surrounding ex-Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) behavior with House pages says no Members or staff committed any formal violations of the chamber’s ethics rules in their handling of the issue…” U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, Investigation of Allegations Related to improper… Continue Reading

    Senate Approves Bill to Extend the Term of the Iraq Special IG

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    Press release: “The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved a bill authored by Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Norm Coleman (R-MN), and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) that would extend the term of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR). Without this legislation, the SIGIR’s term would expire on October 1, 2007. This legislation, which… Continue Reading

    Executive Order on Strengthening Surface Transportation Security

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    Executive Order 13416–Strengthening Surface Transportation Security, Presidential Documents: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the security of the Nation’s surface transportation systems and thereby enhance the protection of the people, property, and territory of the United States of… Continue Reading

    EPA Redacting Library Website to Remove Public Access to Reports

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    Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) press release: “defiance of Congressional requests to immediately halt closures of library collections, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is purging records from its library websites, making them unavailable to both agency scientists and outside researchers, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the… Continue Reading