The U.S. Intelligence Community: Selected Cross-Cutting Issues (open access)

The U.S. Intelligence Community: Selected Cross-Cutting Issues

This report focuses on cross-cutting management issues that affect the Intelligence Community's (IC's) ability to counter "pervasive and emerging threats" to the United States and balance resources both appropriately and wisely. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is charged with integrating the community of intelligence agencies so that they operate effectively as one team.
Date: April 12, 2016
Creator: Miles, Anne D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Counting Casualties in Syria and Iraq: Process and Challenges (open access)

Counting Casualties in Syria and Iraq: Process and Challenges

This report discusses the difficulties of collecting war-related casualty data in Iraq and Syria and provides an overview of some of the current estimated figures available through selected organizations.
Date: April 12, 2016
Creator: Humud, Carla E.; Margesson, Rhoda & Chesser, Susan G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Quality Model of the Middle Brazos River, Below Waco to Fort Bend County (open access)

Water Quality Model of the Middle Brazos River, Below Waco to Fort Bend County

Report on a water quality model of the Lower Brazos River.
Date: April 12, 2016
Creator: RPS Group
System: The Portal to Texas History
Defense: FY2017 Budget Request, Authorization, and Appropriations (open access)

Defense: FY2017 Budget Request, Authorization, and Appropriations

This report discusses the current administration's request of $523.9 billion to cover the fiscal year 2017 discretionary "base budget" of the Department of Defense (DOD).
Date: April 12, 2016
Creator: Towell, Pat & Williams, Lynn M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Friended but not Friends: Federal Ethics Authorities Address Role of Social Media in Politics (open access)

Friended but not Friends: Federal Ethics Authorities Address Role of Social Media in Politics

This report discusses rules governing acceptance of gifts by government employees and how social media and the concept of being "friends" on a social media network effect the personal friendship clause of the gift ethics rules.
Date: April 12, 2016
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
System: The UNT Digital Library