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Daily Archives: April 29, 2010

New GAO Reports: Auto Industry, Veteran-owned Small Businesses, 8(a) Program, Homeland Defense, SBA

  • Auto Industry: Lessons Learned from Cash for Clunkers Program, GAO-10-486, April 29, 2010
  • Department of Veterans Affairs: Preliminary Observations on Issues Related to Contracting Opportunities for Veteran-owned Small Businesses, GAO-10-673T, April 29, 2010
  • 8(a) Program: Fourteen Ineligible Firms Received 5 Million in Sole-Source and Set-Aside Contracts, GAO-10-425, March 30, 2010
  • Homeland Defense: DOD Can Enhance Efforts to Identify Capabilities to Support Civil Authorities during Disasters, GAO-10-386, March 30, 2010
  • Homeland Defense: DOD Needs to Take Actions to Enhance Interagency Coordination for Its Homeland Defense and Civil Support Missions, GAO-10-364, March 30, 2010
  • Small Business Administration: Steps Have Been Taken to Improve Administration of the 8(a) Program, but Key Controls for Continued Eligibility Need Strengthening, GAO-10-353, March 30, 2010
  • Defense Supplier Base: DOD Should Leverage Ongoing Initiatives in Developing Its Program to Mitigate Risk of Counterfeit Parts, GAO-10-389, March 29, 2010

Independent Panel Finds Insufficient Evidence to Support Preventive Measures for Alzheimer's Disease

News release: “Many preventive measures for cognitive decline and for preventing Alzheimer’s disease—mental stimulation, exercise, and a variety of dietary supplements—have been studied over the years. However, an independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health determined that the value of these strategies for delaying the onset and/or reducing the severity of… Continue Reading

The Global development of free access to legal information

Greenleaf G., “The Global development of free access to legal information”, in European Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010. “Since the mid1990s the Internet’s Worldwide Web has provided the necessary technical platform to enable free access to computerised legal information. Prior to the web there were many online legal information systems… Continue Reading

The 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey: Confidence Stabilizing, But Preparations Continue to Erode

Confidence Stabilizing, But Preparations Continue to Erode, By Ruth Helman, Mathew Greenwald and Associates, and Craig Copeland and Jack VanDerhei, Employee Benefit Research Institute, March 2010 “The 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey—the 20th annual wave of this survey—finds that the record-low confidence levels measured during the past two years of economic decline appear to have bottomed… Continue Reading