HHS OIG Report on State Medicaid Agenices’ Initiatives on Health Information Technology and Health Information Exchange, August 2007 (30 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Congressional Requests for White House Documents on Domestic Surveillance Rebuffed
Follow up to August 20, 2007 posting, White House Fails to Comply With Subpoenas on Domestic Surveillance Program – additional related government documents and news: Letter from Fred Fielding, Counsel to the President, to Chairman Leahy, August 20, 2007 Letter from Shannen W. Coffin, Counsel to the Vice President, to Chairman Leahy, August 20, 2007… Continue Reading
Internet Health Report
Internet Health Report, Keynote Systems, “The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority”: metrics include Latency, Latency, Network Availability, Packet Loss. Continue Reading
DOT OIG Audit Initiated of FAA's Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast Program
Audit Initiated of FAA’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast Program: Automatic Dependent Surveillance – “Broadcast (ADS-B) is a cornerstone technology planned for FAA’s Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). This satellite-based technology has significant potential to improve safety and enhance capacity of the National Airspace System by, among other things, providing greater situational awareness to… Continue Reading
Google Book Search in Google Earth
Google Lat Long Blog: “…the Google Book Search and Google Earth teams are excited to announce the next step: a new layer in Earth that allows you to explore locations through the lens of the world’s books. Now when you turn on the “Google Book Search” layer in Google Earth (found in the “Featured Content”… Continue Reading
The Convergence of Social Networking and People Finding
Technology Review – Searching for Humans – Various websites are trying to make it easier to find friends and colleagues online: “Jaideep Singh, cofounder of the new people-search engine Spock, says he wants to build a profile for every person in the world. To do this, he plans to combine the power of search algorithms… Continue Reading
New CRS Reports on Iran, Iraq, Enemy Combatant Detainees, Pakistan
Iraq: Government Formation and Benchmarks, Updated August 10,2007 Iran’s Influence in Iraq, Updated August 9, 2007 Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, Updated August 6, 2007 Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America: An Overview and Selected Issues, August 2, 2007 Iraq and Al Qaeda, Updated July 27, 2007 Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges… Continue Reading
White House Fails to Comply With Subpoenas on Domestic Surveillance Program
Follow up to previous posting on the government’s domestic surveillance program, today’s Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, On The Bush Administrations Failure To Comply With Subpoenas For Warrantless Wiretapping Documents, August 20, 2007: “Today was the deadline for the Administration to comply with the Judiciary Committees subpoenas for documents related to… Continue Reading
DOD OIG Audit of Missile Defense Agency Purchases
Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General — Audit, Missile Defense Agency Purchases for and from Governmental Sources – Report No. D-2007-117 (50 pages PDF) – Project No. D2006-D000FH-0160.000, Date: August 20, 2007. Continue Reading
Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Creates Free Archive of Federal and State Cases
Public.Resource.Org, In Re: State and Federal Cases and Codes [the current source material is ultrafiche]: “The short-term goal is the creation of an unencumbered full-text repository of the Federal Reporter, the Federal Supplement, and the Federal Appendix. The medium-term goal is the creation of an unencumbered full-text repository of all state and federal cases and… Continue Reading
GAO Launches Web Site Improvements
“The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today unveiled its newly redesigned Web site, www.gao.gov. The updated site makes the agencys work easier to find, and it better explains what GAO is and what it does. New features on the homepage include a prominent dynamic display of GAOs latest products, a streamlined In the Spotlight section, and… Continue Reading
Department of State Declassification Plan, 2004
Via FAS, Department of State Declassification Plan 2004 Update and FY05-07 Projections, 13 pages, PDF. “prepared pursuant to…Executive Order 12958 [Classified National Security Information, as Amended]…The Order and Directive required executive branch agencies to institutionalize the declassification of permanent, classified records and establish an implementation date of December 31, 2006 for the introduction of automatic… Continue Reading
