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GAO Report: Contractor Integrity

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Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information, GAO-10-693, September 10, 2010

  • “GAO’s analysis of guidance and contract actions at three agencies found areas where sensitive information is not fully safeguarded and thus may remain at risk of unauthorized disclosure or misuse. The Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) have all supplemented the FAR and developed some guidance and standard contract provisions, but the safeguards available in DOD’s and HHS’s guidance do not always protect all relevant types of sensitive information contractors may access during contract performance (examples of some types of sensitive information contractors may access are listed below). Also, DOD’s, DHS’s, and HHS’s supplemental FAR guidance do not specify contractor responsibilities for prompt notification to the agency if unauthorized disclosure or misuse occurs.”

    • GAO Report: Hybrid Warfare

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    Hybrid Warfare, GAO-10-1036R, September 10, 2010 “Senior military officials recently testified1 before Congress that current and future adversaries are likely to use “hybrid warfare” tactics, a blending of conventional and irregular approaches across the full spectrum of conflict. In addition, several academic and professional trade publications have commented that future conflict will likely be characterized… Continue Reading

    FCC Releases Telecommunications Industry Revenues Report , 2008

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    Telecommunications Industry Revenues 2008 – Jim Lande, Kenneth Lynch, Industry Analysis & Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, September 2010 “This report provides an overview of U.S. telecommunications industry revenues and contributions to the universal service support mechanisms over the past decade. The last report was released September 3, 2009. Most of the data for 2008… Continue Reading

    CRS: U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress

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    U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress, Shirley A. Kan, Specialist in Asian Security Affairs, July 6, 2010 “This CRS report, updated as warranted, discusses policy issues regarding military-to-military (mil-to-mil) contacts with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and provides a record of major contacts and crises since 1993. The United States suspended military contacts with… Continue Reading