Department of Homeland Security: A Strategic Approach Is Needed to Better Ensure the Acquisition Workforce Can Meet Mission Needs, GAO-09-30, November 19, 2008 Mandate on the Department of Defense’s Contract Award Procedures for Directed Spending Items, GAO-09-113R, November 19, 2008 State and Local Fiscal Challenges: Rising Health Care Costs Drive Long-term and Immediate Pressures, GAO-09-210T,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2008
FTC Announces Health Care Booklet and Web Site for Seniors
New release: “To help provide reliable sources of health information to seniors and their family members, caregivers, and friends, the Federal Trade Commission has developed a new booklet and Web site. Who Cares: Sources of Information About Health Care Products and Services, online, urges older consumers to discuss their health-related decisions with doctors and other… Continue Reading
BLM Finalizes Rules That Could Add Billions of Barrels of Oil to U.S. Supply
News release: “As part of its ongoing effort to increase and diversify America’s energy supply, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management today published final regulations to establish a commercial oil shale program that could result in the addition of up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from lands in the Western… Continue Reading
NOAA Declares October Second Warmest for Global Temperatures
News release: “The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for October 2008 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center. NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean… Continue Reading
Fact Sheet: Expanding International Market Opportunities for Americans
News release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez spoke about the importance of tradeand its role in ensuring our nations future prosperity at a Small Business Administration (SBA) trade symposium. Exports were $1 trillion in 2001. At present rates, Americas exports will be approaching $2 trillion this year and exports account for essentially all the… Continue Reading
EPA Action Plan: Looking Toward a More Cost Effective, Energy Efficient Future
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy are helping states lead the way in an effort to promote low cost energy efficiency. More than 60 energy, environmental and state policy leaders from across the country have come together to produce the updated National Action Plan Vision for 2025: A Framework… Continue Reading
DOJ Issues New Guidances on FOIA Requests, Fees, Response Time
OIP Guidance: New Requirement To Route Misdirected FOIA Requests (posted 11/18/2008) OIP Guidance: New Limitations on Assessing Fees (posted 11/18/2008) OIP Guidance: New Limitations on Tolling the FOIA’s Response Time (posted 11/18/2008) OIP Guidance: Assigning Tracking Numbers and Providing Status Information for Requests (posted 11/18/2008 Continue Reading
NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet
News release: “Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. “This is the first step in creating a totally new… Continue Reading
DHS Issues New Requirements for Private Aircraft Arriving and Departing the United States
News release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today additional measures to strengthen private aircraft security by requiring more detailed information about arriving and departing private aircraft and persons onboard, within a timeframe necessary for the department to assess the risks that certain flights may pose to national security. The Advance Information on Private… Continue Reading
Oversight of Implementation of Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
House Financial Services Committee – Oversight of Implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and of Government Lending and Insurance Facilities; Impact on Economy and Credit Availability Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Witness List & Prepared Testimony Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors… Continue Reading
CBO Cost Estimate for S. 3689, Economic Recovery Act of 2008
S. 3689, Economic Recovery Act of 2008 – November 18, 2008 – Cost estimate for the bill as introduced on November 17, 2008. “CBO estimates that enacting this legislation would provide $89.3 billion in budget authority and result in outlays totaling $50.4 billion in 2009 and $88.4 billion over the 2009-2018 period excluding potential additional… Continue Reading
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.” Continue Reading
