Excerpt: Diffusion is the transport of mass caused by molecular motion. in this article we review recent studies of the motion of one tagged particle in (a) a static, disordered medium, and (b) a bath of moving particles, both in two-dimensional...
Excerpt: the conference of the states party is an organ established by the state party to the intter-americaan convention against the Illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms...
Excerpt: Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, California State Senator...
Excerpt: Since its founding in 1984, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has provided federal leadership in developing the nation’s capacity to prevent and control crime, administer justice, and assist crime victims. It also develops information about crime and its related legal and social implications. OJP’s bureaus and offices provide federal leadership and administer federal grants, provide training and technical assistance, support technology development and researc...
Excerpt: FY 99 Authorized Defense Articlea Under Section 38 AECA...
Excerpt: To determine trends in the Department of Defense’s (DOD) foreign sourcing, we analyzed DOD’s DD 350 data on prime contract awards, which were adjusted to reflect constant 1998 dollars, from fiscal year 1987 to 1997. We examined the amounts DOD purchased at the prime contractor level by country and by item. We performed a similar assessment of DOD’s data on foreign subcontract awards. However, we did not include a trend analysis of DOD’s foreign subcontract procu...
Introduction: The struggle against international terrorism places new and difficult demands on the U.S. Intelligence Community. Acquiring information about the composition, location, capabilities, plans, and ambitions of terrorist groups is an enormous challenge for intelligence agencies; meeting this challenge requires different skills than were needed to keep informed about the capabilities and intentions of Communist governments. At the same time, requirements continu...
Summary: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined not to review an initial determination (‘‘ID’’) (Order No. 17) issued by the presiding administrative law judge (‘‘ALJ’’) finding a violation of section 337 and that the domestic industry requirement has been met in the above-captioned investigation. General information concerning the Commission may be obtained by accessing its Internet server.
Excerpt: When President Clinton signed into law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, he fulfilled a promise he made when he first took office – that his Administration would provide local communities the resources to add 100,000 community policing officers to the nation's streets. Six years later, this historic legislation has made a difference. As of this summer, over 105,000 community policing officers had been funded. More than 30,000 grants have...
Excerpt: 3 Ring Binders 3-D Pictures Acetate Printing Acrobat Forms CD Ad Campaign Collateral Addressing & Mailing Airline Boarding Tickets Announcements Annual Reports Aperture Cards Art Prints Artwork Audio Cassette Duplication Audio Cassette Labels Audio Cassette Transcription Badges Bags (paper/plastic/cloth) Balloons Banners Bar Coding Baseball Caps...
Excerpt: Airlift operates across the range of military operations performing six broad tasks: deployment, employment, redeployment, sustainment, aeromedical evacuation (AE), and military operations other than war, such as foreign humanitarian assistance and noncombatant evacuation operations. Airlift is a cornerstone of global force projection. It provides the means to rapidly deploy and redeploy forces, on short notice, to any location worldwide. Airlift’s characteristi...
Summary: After substantial congressional treatment, President George W. Bush gave impetus to the creation of a Department of Homeland Security when, on June 6, 2002, he proposed the establishment of such an entity by the 107th Congress. The President transmitted his department proposal to the House of Representatives on June 18, where it was subsequently introduced by request (H.R. 5005). The House approved the bill in amended form on July 26. The Senate did not begin co...
Excerpt: On Jan. 11, Secretary ruled out US consideration at this time of an...
Excerpt: A Note On Redaction: The Final Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the Peoples Republic of China was unanimously approved by the five Republicans and four Democrats who served on the Select Committee. This three-volume Report is a declassified, redacted version of the Final Report. The Final Report was classified Top Secret when issued on January 3, 1999, and remains so today. Certain source materials in...
Scope: This publication provides operational and organizational guidelines and establishes a framework for the planning and execution of joint conventional and unconventional evasion and recovery operations. It also provides specific guidance on joint tactics, techniques, and procedures (JTTP) for the conduct of certain aspects of these operations. This publication contains material common to all the Services which can be used as source material for indoctrination, brief...
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Excerpt: Members of the Commission, working with you, your staff has developed initial findings on the identification, watchlisting, and tracking of three individuals who helped carry out the 9/11 attacks upon the United States. Those individuals are Nawaf al Hazmi, Sale m al Hazmi, and Khalid al Mihdhar. These findings and judgments may help your conduct of today’s public hearing and inform the development of your recommendations. This report reflects the results of wor...
Excerpt: Although Teller, his Los Alamos colleagues, and the GAC recognized the two outstanding obvious technical obstacles to a thermonuclear weapon -- computing and tritium -- by the time of the first Russian fission test, other critical bottlenecks presented themselves from the end of the war through the time of the discovery of the Teller-Ulam design.
Summary: Energy supplies and prices are a major economic factor in the United States, and energy markets are volatile and unpredictable. For both these reasons, energy policy is of frequent interest to the Congress. This report presents a statistical view of the supply and consumption of various forms of energy. Both long-term trends and short-term variations are given.
Excerpt: Shortly after the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks, the Director of Central Intelligence's (DCI) Counterterrorism Center (CTC) and the CIA Near East and South Asia office (NESA)-' collaborated on a paper on Iraqi links to the September 1 lth attacks. This was the CIA'S first attempt to summarize the Iraqi regime's ties to 911 1. The paper was disseminated to President's Daily Brief (PDB) principals on September 2 1,200 1. The Committee was not informed about ...