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Military Personnel: Perspectives of Surveyed Members in Retention Critical Specialities
A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the quality of life and retention in the military, focusing on: (1) military personnel's overall intentions to stay or leave the military; (2) military personnel's levels of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the military; (3) factors that affect dissatisfaction and intent to leave the military; and (4) factors that affect satisfaction and intentions to stay in the military."
Date:
August 16, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
VA Health Care: Laundry Service Operations and Costs
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Veteran Affairs' (VA) laundry support services, focusing on: (1) the type and volume of laundry service VA provides; (2) how VA provides laundry services; (3) the cost VA incurs; and (4) the revenue VA generates from selling laundry services."
Date:
December 21, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Waste: Process to Remove Radioactive Waste From Savannah River Tanks Fails to Work
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Energy's (DOE) efforts to clean up nuclear waste at DOE's Savannah River Site in South Carolina, focusing on: (1) the factors causing the project's delays and cost growth; (2) the effect of the in-tank precipitation process project's suspension on the Savannah River Site's cleanup plans and costs; and (3) DOE's plans for developing an alternative technology for separating high-level waste from the liquid."
Date:
April 30, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Modernization Account: Operations and Benefits
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the operations and benefits of the Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense Modernization Account, focusing on: (1) the status of funding and uses of the account; and (2) whether DOD has reported to the six congressional committees on the activities of the account as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996."
Date:
June 11, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Warfare: Army Special Operations Acquisition Strategy for Improved Equipment Is Sound
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the U.S. Special Operations Command's (USSCOM) acquisition strategy for aircraft electronic warfare systems, focusing on the soundness of USSCOM's electronic warfare acquisition strategy in terms of correcting deficiencies and maximizing commonality in its aircraft survivability equipment."
Date:
August 23, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Improprieties by Contractors Compromised Medicare Program Integrity
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined whether Medicare contractors participated in any improper or questionable practices that contributed to fraud, waste, or abuse in the Medicare federal health insurance program, focusing on: (1) recently completed cases of criminal conduct or False Claims Act violations committed by Medicare contractors; (2) the deceptive contractor activities set forth in those cases or alleged by investigating agents and former contractor employees; and (3) how these activities were carried out without detection by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)."
Date:
July 14, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Customs Service Modernization: Serious Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected
A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Customs Service's management of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), focusing on whether Customs has adequately justified ACE cost-effectiveness."
Date:
February 26, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Administration: Review of Selected Personnel Practices
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed events related to personnel reassignments, appointments, and activities at the Small Business Administration (SBA)."
Date:
April 23, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Acquisitions: Achieving B-2A Bomber Operational Requirements
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the total acquisition costs of the Air Force's B-2A bomber program through completion of the production program, focusing on the: (1) deficiencies in achieving B-2A operational requirements; and (2) status of acquisition costs."
Date:
June 10, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare: Improvements Needed to Enhance Protection of Confidential Health Information
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed four areas related to the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) use of personally identifiable health information, focusing on: (1) HCFA's need for personally identifiable health information to manage the Medicare program and accomplish other purposes; (2) HCFA's policies and practices regarding disclosure of information on Medicare beneficiaries; (3) the adequacy of HCFA's safeguards for protecting the confidentiality of electronic information and HCFA's monitoring of others' protection of beneficiary information; and (4) the effect on HCFA of state restrictions on the disclosure of confidential health information."
Date:
July 20, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Information: EPA Is Taking Steps to Improve Information Management, but Challenges Remain
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) information management systems, focusing on: (1) recent initiatives designed to help EPA improve the accuracy, completeness, and compatibility of its data; (2) the impact of data gaps and inconsistencies on EPA's ability to evaluate and report on the results of its programs under the Government Performance and Results Act; and (3) the major management challenges facing EPA's new central information office."
Date:
September 17, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare Home Health Agencies: Closures Continue, With Little Evidence Beneficiary Access Is Impaired
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the: (1) distribution of Medicare home health agencies' (HHA) closures across urban and rural counties and the characteristics of closed agencies; and (2) effect of closures on beneficiary access to home health services."
Date:
May 26, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Consumer Product Safety Commission: Consumer Education Efforts for Revised Children's Sleepwear Safety Standard
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO examined the type and extent of consumer education that occurred since the revised children's sleepwear safety standard went into effect in January 1997, focusing on three voluntary point-of-sale practices that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and others recognize as important for informing consumers about the new standard."
Date:
June 9, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aviation Competition: Information on the Department of Transportation's Proposed Policy
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Transportation's (DOT) proposed policy concerning aviation competition, focusing on: (1) why DOT developed the proposed policy; (2) what process DOT used to develop the proposed policy; and (3) whether the proposed policy addresses the specific problems that led DOT to issue it."
Date:
July 29, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Food Safety: Experiences of Four Countries in Consolidating Their Food Safety Systems
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the experiences of foreign countries that are consolidating their food safety responsibilities, focusing on the: (1) reasons for and approaches taken to consolidation, the costs and savings, if any, associated with consolidation, and efforts to assess the effectiveness of the revised food safety systems; and (2) lessons that the United States might learn from these countries' experiences in consolidating their food safety functions."
Date:
April 20, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
DOD Competitive Sourcing: Lessons Learned System Could Enhance A-76 Study Process
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Department of Defense's (DOD) A-76 study process, focusing on efforts by DOD to: (1) improve performance work statements, including encouraging the use of standard templates; and (2) implement other efforts to improve the competitive sourcing process, as well as gather and disseminate lessons learned that could benefit the competitive sourcing program DOD-wide."
Date:
July 21, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Department of Energy: Actions Necessary to Improve DOE's Training Program
A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Energy's (DOE) training program and the changes that are needed to address those problems, focusing on: (1) DOE's current process for setting its training budget; (2) opportunities to reduce the costs associated with DOE's training program; and (3) DOE's draft plan for training its employees in the future."
Date:
February 12, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Safe Drinking Water Act: Progress and Future Challenges in Implementing the 1996 Amendments
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the: (1) status of efforts and progress made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the states in addressing the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1996; and (2) future challenges facing EPA and the states in their efforts to do so."
Date:
January 14, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Superfund: Half the Sites Have All Cleanup Remedies in Place or Completed
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund Program, focusing on: (1) the status in the Superfund cleanup process of the sites on EPA's list of the nation's most hazardous sites, called the National Priorities List (NPL); and (2) for the 609 NPL sites GAO included in its review where cleanups have not been completed, what work has been accomplished, what work remains, and when the remaining work will be completed."
Date:
July 30, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Budget Surpluses: Experiences of Other Nations and Implications for the United States
A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the experience of six nations--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom--with budget surpluses, focusing on: (1) how they achieved budget surpluses and what their fiscal policies were during periods of surplus; (2) how they addressed long-term budgetary pressures; (3) how they adapted their budget process during a period of surplus; and (4) the lessons these nations learned from their experiences with budget surpluses that might be applicable to the United States."
Date:
November 2, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare+Choice: Reforms Have Reduced, but Likely Not Eliminated, Excess Plan Payments
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed concerns surrounding the Balanced Budget Act's (BBA) health plan payment changes, focusing on: (1) the extent to which health plans provide additional benefits and whether they could continue to provide additional benefits if payments were reduced; (2) the evidence regarding managed care's effect on Medicare spending; and (3) whether BBA provisions will eliminate excess plan payments."
Date:
June 18, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Education Funding: Allocation to State and Local Agencies for 10 Programs
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on 10 major Department of Education programs for (FY) 1996, focusing on: (1) the percentage of federal funding spent at the federal level and the uses of these funds; (2) the percentage of federal funding spent at the state level and the uses of these funds; and (3) the amount of time school personnel in a small number of school districts spent fulfilling federal administrative requirements for those programs for which the districts received funds."
Date:
September 30, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology Transfer: Number and Characteristics of Inventions Licensed by Six Federal Agencies
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the licensing of government-owned inventions created under federally funded research projects, focusing on: (1) government-owned inventions licensed by six federal agencies during fiscal years 1996 through 1998, including the royalties received during that period, and the total number of active licenses these agencies had as of October 1, 1998; (2) whether the licenses were exclusive or nonexclusive; (3) whether the licensees were small businesses, individuals, large businesses, or nonprofit organizations; and (4) whether the licensees were foreign or domestic."
Date:
June 18, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: Independent Counsel Expenditures for the Six Months Ended September 30, 1998
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO presented the results of its audits of expenditures reported by seven offices of independent counsel for the 6 months ended September 30, 1998, focusing on whether the statements of expenditures complied with the financial reporting requirements of the law."
Date:
March 31, 1999
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library