Excerpt: DSAA- Foreign Military Sales Detailed Deliveries For Fiscal Year 2000...
Excerpt: The U.S. Intelligence Community is a federation of executive branch agencies and organizations that work- both together and separately- to conduct intelligence activities necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the United States. While the U.S. Intelligence Community is a large and complex organization, its primary mission is clearcut: to collect and convey essential information needed by the President and ot...
Excerpt: Attached for your consideration is a draft response to the concerns we have noted in the Final Draft of 126.5 which you had provided to us at our meeting of 07 November.
Excerpt: Little is known about the career of artist William C. McCauslen. Rufus de Vane King was a U.S. representative from North Carolina, a U.S. senator from Alabama, and 13th vice president of formal training as a painter but was self-taught as a sculptor. the United States. He was born in Sampson It is unknown how McCauslen came to the attention of the County, North Carolina, and practiced law Joint Committee on the Library to execute the marble bust before winning a...
Excerpt: Back in 1954 I wrote an article on the history of the Hbomb, stimulated by a book by Shepley and Blair which gave an entirely distorted view of that history. It took until recently to have that article declassified. I had intended to put this article into the Laboratory’s archives and not to publish it, in order not to stir up old controversies. However, now there has appeared the very popular book by Peter Goodchild, J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds. ...
Excerpt: At times material to this Indictment: // 1. All defendants are hereinafter in this Count referred to by their name without reference to any “a/k/a” names; all names are transliterated from the Arabic language. // 2. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad -- Shiqaqi Faction (hereinafter referred to as PIJ) was an international terrorist organization with “cells” or units located throughout the world. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad was also known amongst the conspirators as...
Excerpt: In the late 1990’s, the NOAA Diving Program (NDP) received several requests from NOAA personnel to undergo training on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) rebreathers. The requests were reviewed by the NOAA Diving Safety Board and several of the requests were approved and the training was conducted by commercial vendors. Upon further investigation into the various COTS units being utilized for training, it was discovered that very few had undergone any type of testi...
Summary: The end of the Cold War freed India-U.S. relations from the constraints of global bipolarity, but New Delhi-Washington relations continued for a decade to be affected by the burden of history, most notably the longstanding India-Pakistan rivalry. Recent years, however, have witnessed a sea change in bilateral relations, with more positive interactions becoming the norm. India’s swift offer of full support for U.S.-led counterterrorism operations after September ...
Excerpt: DSAA- Foreign Military Sales Detailed Deliveries For Fiscal Year 2003...
Summary: The FAA proposes to supersede an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Boeing Model 767 series airplanes. The existing AD currently requires repetitive detailed and eddy current inspections of the aft pressure bulkhead for damage and cracking, and repair if necessary. This proposed AD would add one-time detailed and high frequency eddy current inspections of any ‘‘oil-can’’ located on the aft pressure bulkhead, and related corrective acti...
Excerpt: Washington, D.C.- The U.S. Government Printing Office is providing a group of top agency executives with in-depth knowledge of several GPO business areas -- from customer services to technology to information dissemination -- to drive the half-day Government Printing Forum at Xplor’s global electronic document systems conference. // WHO: Keynote: Bill Turri, Deputy Public Printer and COO 1:30 p.m. // Panel 1: Today’s Government Printing Office 2:45 p.m. // Moder...
Excerpt: Aim For Fitness: // Aim for a healthy weight. // Be physically active each day. // Build A Healthy Base... // Let the Pyramid guide your food choices. // Choose a variety of grains daily, especially whole grains. // Choose a variety of fruits and vegetables daily. // Keep food safe to eat.
Excerpt: Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, having met in New York from 9 to 20 July 2001: // Gravely concerned at the illicit manufacture, transfer and circulation of small arms and light weapons and their excessive accumulation and uncontrolled spread in many regions of the world, which have a wide range of humanitarian and socioeconomic consequences and pose a serious threat to peace, reconciliation, safety, security, stability and sustainable d...
Excerpt: With the largest cities leading the way, the Nation's murder rate in 1998 fell to its lowest level in three decades. Much of the decline was in those cities with more than 1 million inhabitants, where the rate fell from 35.5 per 100,000 population in 1991 to 16. per 100,000 in 1998. The sharp increase in homicides in the late 1980’s and much of the subsequent decline are attributable to a rise and fall in gun violence by juveniles and young adults. Despite the e...
Summary: On February 1, 2005, final regulations to implement a new human resources management system for the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) were published. The regulations provide for the organization of the new personnel system, describing, among other topics, the use of pay bands, how jobs will be evaluated, and how pay will be administered. In addition, subpart E of the final regulations defines the department’s labor relations system. This report compares th...
Excerpt: Today, the subcommittees on Military Readiness and Research and Development meet jointly to receive testimony on the status of the Department of Defense information superiority and information assurance programs and the measures that are being taken to establish and maintain information assurance as U.S. armed forces enter the 21st Century. We have just completed a classified briefing on the threat to the United States posed by cyber-terrorism and potential cybe...
Summary: After asserting that Iraq had failed to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions that require Iraq to rid itself of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the Bush Administration began military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003, and the regime of Saddam Hussein fell on April 9. Since then, U.S. teams have been attempting to uncover Iraq’s suspected weapons of mass destruction (WMD) stockpiles, but only minor finds of WMD technology have been reported thus far.