Site Map - Government Reports (GAO etc.)

09/18/2007 - Insurers and financiers have mastered the skill of risk management, which entails anticipating future events, deciding which of those expected risks the organization will bear, and allocating resources to mitigate the rest. @ SM Online has the report.

09/13/2007 - International body charged with containing the spread of nuclear bomb technology has made progress

09/13/2007 - Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is responsible for analyzing the act’s effectiveness and making recommendations for changes, the act has given the FTC, the Department of Justice, and Internet service providers (ISPs) the ammunition to bring dozens of actions against alleged spammers; many of these legal actions are still in progress, but many others have already resulted in settlements.

09/13/2007 - The GAO found that the role of the portfolio managers was never finalized and that the S&T directorate does not require documentation of how determinations are made about where research and development projects and funds are directed. In addition, it was discovered that the portfolio managers were not required to attend ethics training specific to their jobs

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09/11/2007 - CIOs should develop IT plans to support their companies’ overall business objectives.

09/07/2007 - Aligning IT with business goals was the number one challenge facing the majority of CIOs in the public and private sectors, according to a Government Accountability Office report. According to the report, “This challenge requires the CIOs to develop IT plans to support their companies’ business objectives. In many cases this entails cross-organizational coordination and collaboration,” echoing the results from the ASIS study on convergence (see “The Growing Trend Toward Convergence,” page 48). @ Chief Information Officers: Responsibilities and Information Technology Governance at Leading Private Sector Companies is at SM Online.

08/13/2007 - See what the GAO has to say about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) effort to modernize its information technology infrastructure. The GAO's overriding critique: "[T]he program has not fully achieved many performance goals that it set out to accomplish over the past year."

08/13/2007 - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration and Customs and Border Protection have tried to secure inbound air cargo, says the GAO, but their efforts need to be strengthened.

08/13/2007 - Six DHS background screening programs are examined by the GAO and found to be duplicative of one another, resulting in widespread redundancies and other inefficiencies.

08/13/2007 - 7 million dollars has been recovered from funds originally paid out in potentially improper or fraudulent payments by the federal government for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

08/10/2007 - The National Institute of Justice has issued another in its series of reports on investigating high-tech crimes.

08/09/2007 - The number, in millions of dollars, recovered from funds originally paid out by the federal government for Hurricane Katrina and Rita.