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Excerpt: This Navy Training System Plan (NTSP) has been prepared to update the E-2C Aircraft Navy Training Plan (NTP), A-50-8716C/A, dated August 1994. The update of this document was accomplished by a thorough review of the life-cycle manpower, personnel, and training requirements associated with the E-2C Aircraft. Changes reflected in this document are directly associated with the installation of new equipment and modification of existing equipment and include: Technic...
Excerpt: On behalf of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia, and in accordance with paragraph 2 of resolution 1407 (2002), I have the honor to submit herewith the report of the team of experts (see annex). The Committee would appreciate it if this letter, together with its annex, were brought to the attention of the members of the Security Council and issued as a document of the Council.
Excerpt: the world's armed forces declined overall, primarily in the developed countries and especially in the fist half of the decade, but the treed differed considerably among the various regions.
Purpose: Since the mid-1980’s the U.S. has strived to improve the integration of services and agencies functions to support joint operations and missions. A series of legislative and executive changes to include the 1986 DOD Reorganization Act began to build the foundation that produced today’s defense organization and our emphases on “joint”. Our experiences in Operation Desert Storm and U.S. participation in the numerous smaller scale contingency operations almost cert...
Introduction: This Bulletin is a product of the Symposium on Working with Crime Victims with Disabilities, funded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and coordinated by the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA), on January 23-24, 1998, in Arlington, Virginia. The Symposium brought together experts from the disability advocacy and victim assistance and research fields, and they raised as many questions as they answered, thus opening the way for the victi...
Summary: Photographs depicting the apparent abuse of Iraqi detainees at the hands of U.S. military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq have resulted in numerous investigations, congressional hearings, and prosecutions, raising questions regarding the applicable law. The international law of armed conflict, in particular, those parts relating to belligerent occupation, applies in Iraq. The four Geneva Conventions of 1949 related to the treatment of prisoners of war (PO...
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Introduction: Public Law 106-65, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, section 1402, “Annual Report of Militarily Sensitive Technologies to Countries and Entities of Concern,” October 5, 1999, requires that the Inspectors General of the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy, and State, in consultation with the Director, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, conduct annual reviews of the transfer of militaril...
Excerpt: Frank A. Partlow, Jr., has been named Chief of Staff for the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) by Public Printer Bruce R. James. As Chief of Staff, Partlow will direct strategic planning for the Government Printing Office and advise the Public Printer on all aspects of GPO's business. The appointment became effective November 29, 2002. Partlow brings 40 years of experience in management, administration and analysis to GPO, as well as extensive experience in ...
Excerpt: Highlights: // 1. During FY 2000 NSF took action on 29,407 competitively reviewed proposals, and provided funding to 9,762 of them. This resulted in an overall funding rate of 33 percent. These numbers have changed very little during the past five years. In FY 2000, Directorate funding rates ranged from 25 to 39 percent. // 2. In FY 2000, the number of awards to minority Principal Investigators (PIs) increased from 422 to 482, a 14 percent increase over FY 1999....
Excerpt: General crime statistics // Number of victimization, 1 // Victimization rates, 1 // Ratio of victimization to incidents, 26 // Series victimization, 110...
Excerpt: The year was 1945. Two earthshaking events took place: the successful test at Alamogordo and the building of the first electronic computer. Their combined impact was to modify qualitatively the nature of global interactions between Russia and the West. No less perturbative were the changes wrought in all of academic research and in applied science. On a less grand scale these events brought about a renascence of a mathematical technique known to the old guard as...
Excerpt: The Committees met, pursuant to call, at 1:05 p.m., in Room 2118, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Howard Coble presiding. Mr. Coble. [Presiding.] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. The joint hearing of the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees will come to order. Chairman Sensenbrenner may or may not appear. He had other duties to attend to, but he may be here imminently. And, I underwent facial surgery yesterday, so I may have to depart before too l...
Excerpt: The Federation of American Scientists is a quarter century old this month. Twenty-five years ago, its founding members were startled into political activity by the moral and social problems posed nuclear weapons.
Excerpt: Synopsis: This directive prescribes a uniform management process for the development, coordination, and maintenance of agreements between the National Reconnaissance Office (NKO) and any external organization/agency. B. NRO external agreements are entered into pursuant to the National Security Act of 1947, 50 U.S.C. 5401 note, as amended; Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, 50 U.S.C. S403a, et seq., as amended; 10 U.S.C. 8113; Executive Order 12333; Departm...
Excerpt: In December 1994, the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) signed the first National Industrial Security Program (NISP) Operating Manual Supplement (NISPOMSUP). The document outlined enhanced security requirements, procedures, and options to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) Baseline for certain types of activities that require protection beyond the Baseline, including: Acquisition, Intelligence and Operations and Support Special ...
Excerpt: Since the 1930's the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program has collected data on crimes reported to the police and on arrests. These data come from State and local law enforcement agencies, and for the UCR the FBI developed its own agency identifiers. Most other Federal data collections, including the decennial census and the census of governments, use geocodes and government entity identifiers developed by the Census Bureau or by what is now the National ...