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Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Selected Major Weapon Programs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) is embarking on a number of efforts to enhance warfighting and the way the department conducts business. Major investments are being made to develop improved weapon systems to combat various threats to U.S. security. While the weapons that DOD ultimately develops have no rival in superiority, weapon systems acquisition remains a long-standing high-risk area. GAO's reviews… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Payment Processing: Documentation Procedures For Electronic Billing and Payment Under the Families First Personal Property Program

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This letter responds to a Department of the Army request for our views on whether certain payment procedures included in the Defense Department's (DOD) proposed Families First Personal Property Program conform with relevant criteria in GAO's Policy and Procedures Manual for Guidance of Federal Agencies. Families First is a DOD initiative to reengineer its processes for transporting household goods and pe… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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HHS: Efforts to Research and Inform the Public about Nonoxynol-9 and HIV

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Preventing the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is an important public health challenge. Researchers have sought to develop a microbicide--a substance to help users protect themselves against HIV. In the mid-1980s, researchers found that Nonoxynol-9 (N-9), a spermicide found in various contraceptive products, showed potential as a microbicide. However, more recent studies raised concerns… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Financial Audit: Independent and Special Counsel Expenditures for the Six Months Ended September 30, 2004

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO audited the expenditures of two offices of independent counsel and one office of special counsel for the 6 months ended September 30, 2004."
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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District of Columbia's Drinking Water: Agencies Have Improved Coordination, but Key Challenges Remain in Protecting the Public from Elevated Lead Levels

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Media reports on elevated lead in the District of Columbia's drinking water raised concern about how local and federal agencies are carrying out their responsibilities. The Lead and Copper Rule requires water systems to protect drinking water from lead. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Washington Aqueduct treats and sells water to the District Water and Sewer Authority (WASA), which delivers it to Dist… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Preventing Nuclear Smuggling: DOE Has Made Limited Progress in Installing Radiation Detection Equipment at Highest Priority Foreign Seaports

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since September 11, 2001, concern has increased that terrorists could smuggle nuclear weapons or materials into this country in the approximately 7 million containers that arrive annually at U.S. seaports. Nuclear materials can be smuggled across borders by being placed inside containers aboard cargo ships. In response to this concern, since 2003, the Department of Energy (DOE) has deployed radiation de… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Anti-Drug Media Campaign: An Array of Services Was Provided, but Most Funds Were Committed to Buying Media Time and Space

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) was required by the Drug Free Media Campaign Act of 1998 (21 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) to conduct a national media campaign to reduce and prevent drug use among America's youth. Since 1998, Congress has appropriated over $1 billion for the media campaign. However, a 2003 report by the Senate Committee on Appropriations expressed some concerns about the media… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Anthrax Detection: Agencies Need to Validate Sampling Activities in Order to Increase Confidence in Negative Results

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In September and October 2001, letters laced with Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) spores were sent through the mail to two U.S. senators and to members of the media. These letters led to the first U.S. cases of anthrax disease related to bioterrorism. In all, 22 individuals, in four states and Washington, D.C., contracted anthrax disease; 5 died. These cases prompted Congress to ask GAO to describe and ass… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Defense Acquisitions: Status of Ballistic Missile Defense Program in 2004

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1985, the Department of Defense (DOD) has invested $85 billion in ballistic missile defense programs, with $66.5 billion more anticipated over the next 7 years through 2011. As a major result of this investment, the Department is on the verge of activating our nation's first missile defense system for protecting the United States from intercontinental ballistic missile attacks out of Northeast Asi… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Results-Oriented Government: Improvements to DHS's Planning Process Would Enhance Usefulness and Accountability

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was the largest government reorganization in over 50 years, involving 170,000 employees and a $40 billion budget. Given the magnitude of this effort, strategic planning is critical for DHS to ensure that it meets the nation's homeland security challenges. GAO was asked to assess the extent to which DHS's planning process and documents (1) address… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Rental Housing: HUD Can Improve Its Process for Estimating Fair Market Rents

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) annually estimates fair market rents (FMR) for standard quality rental units throughout the United States. Among other uses, FMRs help determine subsidies for almost 2 million low-income families in the nation's largest rental assistance program. However, concerns exist that FMRs can be inaccurate--often, too low, preventing program participants from… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Financial Management: Challenges in Meeting Requirements of the Improper Payments Information Act

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Fiscal year 2004 marked the first year that federal agencies governmentwide were required to report improper payment information under the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA). The increasing scope of reporting over the past several years has demonstrated that improper payments are a significant and widespread problem in federal agencies, and in the past a limited number of agencies reported… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Unfunded Mandates: Views Vary About Reform Act's Strengths, Weaknesses, and Options for Improvement

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) was enacted to address concerns about federal statutes and regulations that require nonfederal parties to expend resources to achieve legislative goals without being provided federal funding to cover the costs. UMRA generates information about the nature and size of potential federal mandates on nonfederal entities to assist Congress and agency decision ma… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Climate Research Facility Operations Quarterly Report January 1 - March 31, 2005

Description: Description. Individual raw data streams from instrumentation at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Climate Research Facility (ACRF) fixed and mobile sites are collected and sent to the Data Management Facility (DMF) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for processing in near real time. Raw and processed data are then sent daily to the ACRF Archive, where they are made available to users. For each instrument, we calculate the ratio of the actual number of data records recei… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Sisterson, D. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Increasing Production from Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs by Optimizing Zone Isolation for Successful Stimulation Treatments

Description: Maximizing production from wells drilled in low-permeability reservoirs, such as the Barnett Shale, is determined by cementing, stimulation, and production techniques employed. Studies show that cementing can be effective in terms of improving fracture effectiveness by 'focusing' the frac in the desired zone and improving penetration. Additionally, a method is presented for determining the required properties of the set cement at various places in the well, with the surprising result that uphol… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Sabins, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

Description: This report covers the progress made in Afghan stabilization immediately following the war that brought the 2004 government to power. The report discusses decreased levels of insurgency, the lack of Al Qaeda's presence, and the increased amounts of freedom Afghan citizens are now enjoying under the new government. Moreover, the report summarizes the remaining obstacles to stability in the region.
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction: Establishment and Composition

Description: This report analyzes the establishment and organizational requirements set forth in the presidential mandate, and its relationship to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FAFCA). On March 31, 2005, the commission submitted its final report to the President, which contained 74 recommendations for reforming the U.S. intelligence community.
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Smith, Stephanie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Clean Diesel Engine Component Improvement Program Diesel Truck Thermoelectric Generator

Description: Hi-Z Technology, Inc. (Hi-Z) is currently developing four different auxiliary generator designs that are used to convert a portion (5 to 20%) of the waste heat from vehicle engines exhaust directly to electricity. The four designs range from 200 Watts to 10 kW. The furthest along is the 1 kW Diesel Truck Thermoelectric Generator (DTTEG) for heavy duty Class 8 Diesel trucks, which, under this program, has been subjected to 543,000 equivalent miles of bouncing and jarring on PACCAR’s test track… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Elsner, N.B.; Bass, J.C.; Ghamaty, S.; Krommenhoek, D.; Kushch, A.; Snowden, D. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Evolving Dark Energy with w =/ -1

Description: Theories of evolving quintessence are constructed that generically lead to deviations from the w = -1 prediction of non-evolving dark energy. The small mass scale that governs evolution, m_\phi \approx 10^-33 eV, is radiatively stable, and the"Why Now?'' problem is solved. These results rest crucially on seesaw cosmology: in broad outline, fundamental physics and cosmology can be understood from only two mass scales, the weak scale, v, and the Planck scale, M. Requiring a scale of dark ene… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Hall, Lawrence J.; Nomura, Yasunori & Oliver, Steven J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
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High Efficiency, High Performance Clothes Dryer

Description: This program covered the development of two separate products; an electric heat pump clothes dryer and a modulating gas dryer. These development efforts were independent of one another and are presented in this report in two separate volumes. Volume 1 details the Heat Pump Dryer Development while Volume 2 details the Modulating Gas Dryer Development. In both product development efforts, the intent was to develop high efficiency, high performance designs that would be attractive to US consumers.… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Pescatore, Peter & Carbone, Phil
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Reviving Abandoned Reservoirs with High-Pressure Air Injection: Application in a Fractured and Karsted Dolomite Reservoir

Description: The field operator, Goldrus Producing Company, has been unable to secure funding needed to continue the field demonstration phase of the project. Accordingly, we have temporarily halted all project activities until necessary funding is obtained. Goldrus is confident that funds can be acquired by third quarter 2005 at which time it will be necessary to request a project extension to complete the originally designed study.
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Loucks, Robert & Ruppel, Stephen C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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NOx Control Options and Integration for US Coal Fired Boilers Quarterly Progress Report: January-March 2005

Description: This is the nineteenth Quarterly Technical Report for DOE Cooperative Agreement No: DEFC26-00NT40753. The goal of the project is to develop cost effective analysis tools and techniques for demonstrating and evaluating low NO{sub x} control strategies and their possible impact on boiler performance for boilers firing US coals. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is providing co-funding for this program. Refurbished corrosion probes were installed at Plant Gavin and operated for approxim… more
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Bockelie, Mike; Davis, Kevin; Senior, Connie; Shino, Darren; Swenson, Dave; Baxter, Larry et al.
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