Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held February 22, 2010 in Washington D.C.This hearing includes testimony from a panel of witnesses representing governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations on coordinating reconstruction and stabilization in contingency operations.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held June 18, 2010 in Washington, D.C. This hearing includes testimony from a panel of academics, consultants, and think-tanks on the proper role and oversight of security contractors in Southwest Asia.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held March 29, 2010 in Washington, D.C.. This hearing includes testimony from governmental agencies and contractors on the return of 100,000 contractor employees in Iraq as the United States reduces its military forces there.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held May 24, 2010. This hearing includes testimony from two panels representing governmental agencies and criminal investigative organizations on issues that confront law-enforcement officials in a contingency environment and the work of USAID, the DoD and DoS since the 2009 hearing.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held June 21, 2010 in Washington D.C. This hearing includes testimony from two panels of witnesses representing government agencies and private security firms on America's use of private security contractors in Iraq.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held July 26,2010 in Washington, D.C. This hearing includes testimony from three panels of witnesses representing government agencies, contractors and subcontractors on transparency and accountability challenges associated with subcontracting.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held July 12, 2010 in Washington D.C.This hearing includes testimony from a panel of Department of Defense witnesses on the Department's manpower planning, strategic planning, and operational planning for operational contract support in contingency operations.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held March 1, 2010 in Washington, D.C. This hearing includes testimony from the U.S.Departments of Defense and State, and from the U.S. Agency for International Development on coordinating reconstruction and stabilization in Contingency Operations.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held September 16, 2010. This hearing includes testimony from two panels of government and academic witnesses on whether the Department of Defense has made adequate plans to improve the federal acquisition workforce.

Transcript of a public hearing held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan held April 19, 2010 in Washington, D.C. This hearing includes testimony from two panels of witnesses representing governmental agencies and contractors on improving the federal government's oversight on service contracts in Southwest Asia operations.

Texas Department of Transportation website usability study documenting stakeholder interviews, usability studies and more.

This report documents the preparation of materials for the marketing campaign that has been designed for middle and high school students in New Mexico to increase interest in participation in national security careers at the National Nuclear Security Administration. The materials and the marketing campaign build on the research that was previously completed, as well as the focus groups that were conducted. This work is a part of the National Nuclear Security Preparedness Project (NSPP). Previous research included outcome analysis to determine appropriate marketing strategies. The analysis was based upon focus groups with middle school and high school students, student interactions, and surveys completed by students to understand and gauge student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects, interest in careers at NNSA, future job considerations, and student desire to pursue post-secondary education. Further, through the focus groups, students were asked to attend a presentation on NNSA job opportunities and employee requirements. The feedback received from the students was utilized to develop the focus and components of a marketing campaign divided into DISCO (Discovering Intelligence and Security Career Opportunities) for the middle school age group and DISCO…..Your Way! for high school age groups. Both campaigns have an intertwined …

Medicine Lake Volcano is a Quaternary shield volcano located in a tectonically complex and active zone at the transition between the Basin and Range Province and the Cascade Range of the Pacific Province. The volcano is topped by a 7x12 km elliptical depression surrounded by a discontinuous constructional ring of basaltic to rhyolitic lava flows. This thesis explores the possibility that the depression may have formed due to regional extension (rift basin) or dextral shear (pull-apart basin) rather than through caldera collapse and examines the relationship between regional tectonics and localized volcanism. Existing data consisting of temperature and magnetotelluric surveys, alteration mineral studies, and core logging were compiled and supplemented with additional core logging, field observations, and fault striae studies in paleomagnetically oriented core samples. These results were then synthesized with regional fault data from existing maps and databases. Faulting patterns near the caldera, extension directions derived from fault striae P and T axes, and three-dimensional temperature and alteration mineral models are consistent with slip across arcuate ring faults related to magma chamber deflation during flank eruptions and/or a pyroclastic eruption at about 180 ka. These results are not consistent with a rift or pull-apart basin. Limited subsidence can be …

The Flooding Predictor™ is a patented advanced control technology proven in research at the Separations Research Program, University of Texas at Austin, to increase distillation column throughput by over 6%, while also increasing energy efficiency by 10%. The research was conducted under a U. S. Department of Energy Cooperative Agreement awarded to George Dzyacky of 2ndpoint, LLC. The Flooding Predictor™ works by detecting the incipient flood point and controlling the column closer to its actual hydraulic limit than historical practices have allowed. Further, the technology uses existing column instrumentation, meaning no additional refining infrastructure is required. Refiners often push distillation columns to maximize throughput, improve separation, or simply to achieve day-to-day optimization. Attempting to achieve such operating objectives is a tricky undertaking that can result in flooding. Operators and advanced control strategies alike rely on the conventional use of delta-pressure instrumentation to approximate the column’s approach to flood. But column delta-pressure is more an inference of the column’s approach to flood than it is an actual measurement of it. As a consequence, delta pressure limits are established conservatively in order to operate in a regime where the column is never expected to flood. As a result, there is much “left …

This report documents the marketing campaign that has been designed for middle and high school students in New Mexico to increase interest in participation in national security careers at the National Nuclear Security Administration. This marketing campaign builds on the research that was previously conducted, as well as the focus groups that were conducted. This work is a part of the National Nuclear Security Preparedness Project (NSPP) being performed under a Department of Energy (DOE) / National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) grant. Outcome analysis was performed to determine appropriate marketing strategies. The analysis was based upon focus groups with middle school and high school students, student interactions, and surveys completed by students to understand and gauge student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects, interest in careers at NNSA, future job considerations, and student desire to pursue post-secondary education. Further, through the focus groups, students were asked to attend a presentation on NNSA job opportunities and employee requirements. The feedback received from the students was utilized to develop the focus and components of the marketing campaign.

A report describing the monitoring of the East and West Flower Garden Bank in accordance with the long-term monitoring protocol.

This report summarizes USAID's programs and financial information during the 2014 fiscal year.

A report directed at improving the specification of surface parameters such as insolation, soil moisture, and surface heat capacity.

Summary describing the work completed at Centro de Investigación Cientifica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE) for 'Direct Observations of Ocean Currents over the Western Slope in the Gulf of Mexico.' It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

"This report summarizes the U.S. Government's response to the child protection emergency in Haiti and the role played by the PL 109-95 secretariat."

A report which provides a historical analysis of the marginal production of gas in the Gulf of Mexico.

Summary describing the work completed at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Coastal Studies Institute. for a study involving platform recruited reef fish. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

Summary describing the work completed at PBS&J for 'Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks'. It includes background information on the project funding and sponsorship, goals, methodology, and findings.

"This report summarizes new and counting activities during calendar year 2009 under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998, Congressionally-authorized debt relief program jointly managed by the Departments of State and Treasury and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)."