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Military Personnel: Perspectives of Surveyed Members in Retention Critical Specialities (open access)

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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consolidated Education Planning: State Education Agencies' Implementation of Consolidated Planning at the Local Level (open access)

Consolidated Education Planning: State Education Agencies' Implementation of Consolidated Planning at the Local Level

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the impact of federal requirements on local school districts, focusing on how some states may not be fully implementing the provisions of federal law that allow local school districts to submit consolidated plans for federal funding."
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection: Research and Development of Plasma Arc Technology Used to Treat Hazardous Waste (open access)

Environmental Protection: Research and Development of Plasma Arc Technology Used to Treat Hazardous Waste

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on three selected research and development initiatives using the plasma arc technology to treat waste, focusing on comparing the characteristics of the largest of the Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives and both Navy shore and ship initiatives."
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Budget Issues: Budgetary Implications of Selected GAO Work for Fiscal Year 2000 (open access)

Budget Issues: Budgetary Implications of Selected GAO Work for Fiscal Year 2000

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the budgetary implications of selected program reforms discussed in its work but not yet implemented or enacted."
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Best Practices: DOD Training Can Do More to Help Weapon System Programs Implement Best Practices (open access)

Best Practices: DOD Training Can Do More to Help Weapon System Programs Implement Best Practices

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the role the Department of Defense (DOD) training is playing in implementing best practices in weapon system programs, focusing on the: (1) contribution DOD training makes to program offices' ability to apply best practices; (2) different methods used by DOD and leading commercial firms in training on best practices; and (3) strategic approaches that underlie DOD's and leading commercial firms' training methods for best practices."
Date: August 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical and Biological Defense: Program Planning and Evaluation Should Follow Results Act Framework (open access)

Chemical and Biological Defense: Program Planning and Evaluation Should Follow Results Act Framework

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the extent to which the Department of Defense (DOD) has applied the Government Performance and Results Act's outcome-oriented principles to the Chemical and Biological (CB) Defense Program, focusing on whether: (1) CB Defense Program goals are explicit and measurable; (2) the CB Defense Program has performance measures that assess outcomes and impacts rather than outputs and activities; and (3) organizations executing the CB Defense research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) activities have incorporated Results Act principles in their program planning and evaluation."
Date: August 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical and Biological Defense: Coordination of Nonmedical Chemical and Biological R&D Programs (open access)

Chemical and Biological Defense: Coordination of Nonmedical Chemical and Biological R&D Programs

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the coordination of federal research and development (R&D) efforts to develop nonmedical technology related to chemical and biological (CB) defense, focusing on: (1) federal programs that conduct nonmedical CB defense-related R&D; and (2) the existing mechanisms for coordinating these programs."
Date: August 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
GSA's Effort to Develop Year 2000 Business Continuity and Contingency Plans for Telecommunications Systems (open access)

GSA's Effort to Develop Year 2000 Business Continuity and Contingency Plans for Telecommunications Systems

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO provided information on the General Services Administration's (GSA) efforts to ensure that the telecommunications systems it manages for the federal government are year 2000 compliant."
Date: June 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure: Status of Labor's Efforts to Develop Electronic Reporting and a Publicly Accessible Database (open access)

Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure: Status of Labor's Efforts to Develop Electronic Reporting and a Publicly Accessible Database

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO provided information on the Department of Labor's (DOL) plan to develop and implement an electronic reporting and disclosure system and the status of the Department's efforts."
Date: March 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Railroad Regulation: Changes in Railroad Rates and Service Quality Since 1990 (open access)

Railroad Regulation: Changes in Railroad Rates and Service Quality Since 1990

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on: (1) the environment within which railroad rates have been set since 1990; (2) how railroad rates have changed since 1990; (3) how railroad service quality has changed since 1990; and (4) actions taken by the Surface Transportation Board and others to address railroad service quality problems."
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equal Employment Opportunity: Complaint Caseloads Rising, With Effects of New Regulations on Future Trends Unclear (open access)

Equal Employment Opportunity: Complaint Caseloads Rising, With Effects of New Regulations on Future Trends Unclear

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) complaint caseload, focusing on: (1) trends in the size of inventories and the age of cases in inventory at various stages of the EEO complaint process; (2) trends in the number of complaints filed by federal employees and the time taken by agencies and EEOC to process them; and (3) implications of these trends and how future caseloads may be affected by EEOC's regulatory changes to the complaint process."
Date: August 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Trade Commission: Information on Proposed Regional Restructuring Effort (open access)

Federal Trade Commission: Information on Proposed Regional Restructuring Effort

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) proposal to restructure its regional operations, focusing on: (1) FTC's rationale for proposing the regional restructuring; (2) the process FTC followed in developing its restructuring proposal; (3) factors FTC used and could have used in deciding how to restructure; (4) other options to the proposed restructuring identified in prior FTC studies or by Boston and Denver regional officials; and (5) the views of selected stakeholders regarding the impact the proposed restructuring could have in the areas covered by the Boston and Denver regional offices."
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Defense: Improving the DOD Payment Process, Using Recovery Auditing and Changing the Prompt Payment Act (open access)

Department of Defense: Improving the DOD Payment Process, Using Recovery Auditing and Changing the Prompt Payment Act

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Department of Defense's (DOD) payment problems and how recovery auditing is being used to identify and recover overpayments."
Date: June 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: Individual Accounts as an Element of Long-Term Financing Reform (open access)

Social Security: Individual Accounts as an Element of Long-Term Financing Reform

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed how best to ensure the long-term viability of the nation's social security program."
Date: March 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single-Family Housing: Weaknesses in HUD's Oversight of the FHA Appraisal Process (open access)

Single-Family Housing: Weaknesses in HUD's Oversight of the FHA Appraisal Process

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Housing Administration's (FHA) appraisal process, focusing on: (1) how well the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is monitoring the performance of the appraisers on its roster and implementing procedures for addressing consumers' complaints about FHA appraisals; (2) the extent to which HUD is holding appraisers accountable for poor-quality FHA appraisals; (3) the extent to which HUD is holding lenders responsible for the quality of the FHA appraisals they use; and (4) how HUD ensures that appraisers on its roster are qualified to perform FHA appraisals."
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness of FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System Can Be Improved (open access)

Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness of FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System Can Be Improved

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) efforts to ensure that its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is year 2000 compliant."
Date: December 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of Agriculture, Commodity Credit Corporation: Livestock Assistance Program (open access)

Department of Agriculture, Commodity Credit Corporation: Livestock Assistance Program

Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Commodity Credit Corporation's (CCC) Livestock Assistance Program (LAP). GAO noted that: (1) the rule would provide new terms and conditions for LAP authorized in the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1999; (2) in counties that have suffered a 40 percent or greater loss of normal grazing as a result of a natural disaster, LAP will provide emergency feed assistance for losses suffered by livestock producers in calendar year 1998; and (3) CCC complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule."
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Inventory: Status of Inventory and Purchases and Their Relationship to Current Needs (open access)

Defense Inventory: Status of Inventory and Purchases and Their Relationship to Current Needs

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 Defense's (DOD) on-hand and on-order inventory, focusing on whether DOD: (1) had on-hand inventory exceeding current requirements as of September 30, 1996, and 1997; and (2) was buying inventory for which it had no current requirements as of those same dates."
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments (open access)

Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the assessments levied on the commercial maritime industry."
Date: September 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Gambling Impact Study Commission: Selected Operational Practices (open access)

National Gambling Impact Study Commission: Selected Operational Practices

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed selected operational practices of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission (NGISC), focusing on: (1) whether NGISC is subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and, if so, whether NGISC followed FACA with respect to three specific meetings; (2) what contracting procedures were used in NGISC's award of three major contracts; (3) why NGISC contracted for legal counsel instead of using government legal support; (4) whether NGISC attempted to interfere with the work of one of its contractors; (5) how Regent University employees were involved in NGISC activities; (6) whether NGISC has paid for relocating any staff; and (7) whether NGISC employees are allowed to work at a location other than the NGISC office."
Date: April 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seized Drugs and Firearms: FBI Needs to Improve Certain Physical Safeguards and Strengthen Accountability (open access)

Seized Drugs and Firearms: FBI Needs to Improve Certain Physical Safeguards and Strengthen Accountability

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) controls over seized drugs and firearms, focusing on whether the FBI: (1) put in place physical safeguards that if operated effectively would help control access to and use of drug and firearm evidence; and (2) maintained adequate accountability over such evidence."
Date: December 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
D.C. Courts: Planning and Budgeting Difficulties During Fiscal Year 1998 (open access)

D.C. Courts: Planning and Budgeting Difficulties During Fiscal Year 1998

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the planning and budgeting difficulties faced by District of Columbia (DC) Courts during fiscal year (FY) 1998."
Date: September 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: Government and Commercial Use of the Social Security Number Is Widespread (open access)

Social Security: Government and Commercial Use of the Social Security Number Is Widespread

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed how the social security number (SSN) is used, focusing on: (1) federal laws and regulations requiring or restricting SSN use; (2) how extensively the private and public sectors use SSNs for purposes not required by federal law; and (3) what businesses and governments believe the impact would be if federal laws limiting the use of SSNs were passed."
Date: February 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Readiness: Readiness Reports Do Not Provide a Clear Assessment of Army Equipment (open access)

Military Readiness: Readiness Reports Do Not Provide a Clear Assessment of Army Equipment

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the equipment readiness in active duty Army units, focusing on whether the active duty units: (1) have the equipment required to conduct their wartime missions; (2) are keeping their equipment in good condition; and (3) can sustain the equipment in a two major theater war as required by the National Military Strategy."
Date: June 16, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library