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FTS2001: Improving the Revenue Estimation Process (open access)

FTS2001: Improving the Revenue Estimation Process

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the General Services Administration's (GSA) revenue estimation process for its Federal Technology Service (FTS) 2001 long-distance telecommunications services program."
Date: May 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility Lending Before the Year 2000 Date Change (open access)

National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility Lending Before the Year 2000 Date Change

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the lending activity of the National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility (CLF), focusing on: (1) CLF's lending during October through December 1999; and (2) credit union borrowing from the discount window and the comparison between credit unions' cost of borrowing from CLF to the cost of alternative sources of liquidity."
Date: May 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Audit: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements (open access)

Financial Audit: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the financial statements of the Bank Insurance Fund, the Savings Association Insurance Fund, and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation Resolution Fund for the years ended December 31, 1999 and 1998. GAO also reviewed: (1) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) management's assertions regarding the effectiveness of its internal controls as of December 31, 1999; and (2) FDIC's compliance with laws and regulations during 1999."
Date: May 26, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Acquisitions: F/A-18E/F Aircraft Does Not Meet All Criteria for Multiyear Procurement (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: F/A-18E/F Aircraft Does Not Meet All Criteria for Multiyear Procurement

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Navy's F/A-18E/F aircraft program, focusing on whether the operational tests: (1) validated the Department of Defense's (DOD) statements that the F/A-18E/F will provide performance capabilities that are superior to existing F/A-18 aircraft; and (2) raised issues that could impact aircraft cost or the upcoming decision on whether the Navy should award a multiyear procurement contract for full-rate production of the aircraft."
Date: May 26, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology Management: SBA Needs to Establish Policies and Procedures for Key IT Processes (open access)

Information Technology Management: SBA Needs to Establish Policies and Procedures for Key IT Processes

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Small Business Administration's (SBA) management of information technology (IT), focusing on the five key IT process areas--investment management, architecture, information security, software development and acquisition, and human capital management."
Date: May 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Acquisitions: Improvements Needed in Military Space Systems' Planning and Education (open access)

Defense Acquisitions: Improvements Needed in Military Space Systems' Planning and Education

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) approach to implementing the U.S. Space Command's long-range plan for expanding military space systems, focusing on the extent to which: (1) plans for expanding military space systems conform to national and defense space policies; (2) funding projections support planned military space programs and desired capabilities; and (3) actions are being taken to educate military personnel to support future military space operations."
Date: May 18, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Park Service: Agency Is Not Meeting Its Structural Fire Safety Responsibilities (open access)

Park Service: Agency Is Not Meeting Its Structural Fire Safety Responsibilities

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the National Park Service's (NPS) structural fire safety efforts, focusing on: (1) whether national parks are effectively addressing their structural fire safety responsibilities and if not, what are the main reasons; and (2) what improvements, if any, are under way to address identified problems."
Date: May 22, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Administration: Subcommittee Questions Concerning Current and Future Service Delivery Challenges (open access)

Social Security Administration: Subcommittee Questions Concerning Current and Future Service Delivery Challenges

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) efforts to prepare its workforce to meet future service delivery challenges, focusing on: (1) SSA's reasons for the 7-year delay in developing a service delivery vision; (2) what SSA's decision not to issue a detailed service delivery plan means for customer service; (3) the differences between a service vision and a service delivery plan; (4) effect the absence of a detailed plan will have on SSA's information technology and its workforce; (5) benefits from SSA's investments in its computer modernization; (6) special challenges SSA will face as a result of the changing needs of its customers; (7) reasons why customers cannot apply for Social Security benefits on-line and the effect on-line applications for benefits will have on SSA's service delivery; and (8) various technology initiatives being implemented."
Date: May 11, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contract Management: New Authority for Severable Service Contracts (open access)

Contract Management: New Authority for Severable Service Contracts

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Department of Defense's (DOD) authority to award severable service contracts in fiscal years 1998 and 1999 under section 801 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998, focusing on: (1) the extent to which DOD used the authority in the last month of the fiscal year; and (2) whether contracts reportedly valued at about $1 million or more and whose work was performed entirely in the following fiscal year were abuses of section 801."
Date: May 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Protection: Grants for International Activities and Smart Growth (open access)

Environmental Protection: Grants for International Activities and Smart Growth

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) grants for international activities and smart growth, focusing on the: (1) number, dollar amount, and recipients of international and smart growth grants; (2) purposes of and the activities pursuant to the grants; and (3) statutory bases that EPA cites for awarding these grants."
Date: May 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
World Trade Organization: Status of China's Trade Commitments to the United States and Other Members (open access)

World Trade Organization: Status of China's Trade Commitments to the United States and Other Members

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO followed up on its previous report on the status of China's World Trade Organization (WTO) membership negotiations, focusing on the: (1) results of the November 1999 bilateral Agreement on Market Access between China and the United States; and (2) status of China's ongoing multilateral negotiations in the WTO."
Date: May 16, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-04-394G) (open access)

Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity (Exposure Draft) (Superseded by GAO-04-394G)

Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This publication has been superseded by GAO-04-394G, Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity, March 2004. GAO published a document on the Information Technology Investment Management (ITIM) framework, which identifies critical processes for successful information technology (IT) investment and organizes these processes into a framework of increasingly mature stages. ITIM establishes three key benefits: (1) a rigorous, standardized tool for internal and external evaluations of an agency's IT management process; (2) a consistent and understandable mechanism for reporting the results of these assessments to agency executives, Congress, and other interested parties; and (3) a road map agencies can use for improving their IT investment management process."
Date: May 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water Infrastructure: Impact of National Water Efficiency Standards (open access)

Water Infrastructure: Impact of National Water Efficiency Standards

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on national water efficiency standards, focusing on the impact of: (1) the national water efficiency standards on water consumption levels and wastewater flows; and (2) repealing the national standards on projected infrastructure investments for drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities."
Date: May 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Travel System Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems Under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (Supersedes AIMD-00-21.2.8) (open access)

Travel System Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems Under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (Supersedes AIMD-00-21.2.8)

Guidance issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This publication supersedes AIMD-00-21.2.8, Travel System Requirements: Checklist for Reviewing Systems Under the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996, December 1999. GAO published a functional requirements document to assist: (1) agencies in implementing and monitoring their travel systems; and (2) management and auditors in reviewing their travel systems to determine if they substantially comply with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996."
Date: May 1, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immigration and Naturalization Service: Information on the Disposition of Naturalization Cases and on Courtesy as a Factor in Employee Performance Appraisals (open access)

Immigration and Naturalization Service: Information on the Disposition of Naturalization Cases and on Courtesy as a Factor in Employee Performance Appraisals

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) naturalization application processing, focusing on: (1) the disposition of naturalization cases from the Chicago District Office that were lost at the Nebraska Service Center in 1997 or 1998; and (2) determining if INS employee performance appraisals included a dimension pertaining to the courteousness with which staff provide service to customers."
Date: May 23, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Department of the Interior: Outstanding Balances on Some Completed Contracts Should Be Deobligated (open access)

Department of the Interior: Outstanding Balances on Some Completed Contracts Should Be Deobligated

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed 31 completed Department of the Interior (DOI) contracts with outstanding balances, focusing on whether the outstanding balances were not needed for contract closeout and could be deobligated."
Date: May 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Lobbying: China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) Lobbying Activities (open access)

Federal Lobbying: China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) Lobbying Activities

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed efforts by the White House China Trade Relations Working Group and selected agencies to garner support for permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China, focusing on: (1) whether these efforts may be in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1913; and (2) applicable appropriations provisions that prohibit the expenditure of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes or to lobby Congress."
Date: May 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Stamp Program: Information on the Costs of Special Diets (open access)

Food Stamp Program: Information on the Costs of Special Diets

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the costs of food stamp recipients' special diets, focusing on the: (1) number of food stamp recipients whose special dietary costs exceed the maximum food stamp benefit; and (2) costs of recipients' special diets compared with the maximum food stamp benefit."
Date: May 8, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Security: Controls Over Software Changes at Federal Agencies (open access)

Information Security: Controls Over Software Changes at Federal Agencies

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on software change controls at federal agencies, focusing on: (1) whether key controls as described in documented policies and procedures regarding software change authorization, testing, and approval comply with federal guidance; and (2) the extent to which agencies contracted for year 2000 remediation of mission-critical systems and the extent to which foreign nationals were involved in these efforts."
Date: May 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combating Terrorism: Comments on Bill H.R. 4210 to Manage Selected Counterterrorist Programs (open access)

Combating Terrorism: Comments on Bill H.R. 4210 to Manage Selected Counterterrorist Programs

A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the Terrorism Preparedness Act of 2000 (H.R. 4210), focusing on the new office it created to manage selected counterterrorist programs."
Date: May 4, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2000 Census: Answers to Hearing Questions on the Status of Key Operations (open access)

2000 Census: Answers to Hearing Questions on the Status of Key Operations

Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the status of the Bureau of the Census' key census operations, focusing on: (1) whether the Bureau followed GAO's recommendations and adopted an alternate form of contingency planning instead of relying on Congress for a supplemental appropriation; (2) why the census is such a local endeavor; (3) whether the Bureau will be able to translate the high level of public awareness into participation for the 2000 Census; (4) whether partnership specialists will be stretched too thinly to have a successful impact on the 2000 Census; (5) the challenges facing the Bureau in conducting a timely and accurate followup; (6) how the Bureau could intentionally or unintentionally cut corners to get the nonresponse follow-up workload done in a shorter period of time; and (7) the risks that could jeopardize the release of timely data."
Date: May 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Senior Executive Service: Retirement Trends Underscore the Importance of Succession Planning (open access)

Senior Executive Service: Retirement Trends Underscore the Importance of Succession Planning

A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Senior Executive Service's (SES) retirement trends, focusing on: (1) trends for the SES' workforce governmentwide and for selected agencies and occupational series through fiscal year (FY) 2005 and how they compared with the trends over the 7-year period ending FY 1998; and (2) the implications of SES retirement trends for SES succession planning."
Date: May 12, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toxic Chemicals: Long-Term Coordinated Strategy Needed to Measure Exposures in Humans (open access)

Toxic Chemicals: Long-Term Coordinated Strategy Needed to Measure Exposures in Humans

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed efforts to collect environmental health data, focusing on the: (1) extent to which states, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) collect human exposure data on potentially harmful chemicals, including data to identify at-risk populations; and (2) main barriers hindering further progress in such efforts."
Date: May 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS' March 7, 2000, Expenditure Plan (open access)

Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS' March 7, 2000, Expenditure Plan

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reviewed the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) second Information Technology Investment Account (ITIA) expenditure plan, focusing on: (1) the progress IRS has made in meeting the commitments in its first expenditure plan; (2) whether the plan satisfies the conditions specified in the Department of the Treasury's fiscal year 1998 and 1999 appropriations acts; (3) whether the plan is consistent with GAO's open recommendations on IRS' systems modernization; and (4) whether GAO have any other observations about IRS' systems modernization efforts."
Date: May 24, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library