Aviation Safety: FAA Has An Opportunity to Enhance Safety and Improve Oversight of Initial Pilot Training (open access)

Aviation Safety: FAA Has An Opportunity to Enhance Safety and Improve Oversight of Initial Pilot Training

A statement of record issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "FAA’s pilot training requirements for certification of commercial pilots are not aligned with airline operations or emphasize skills that airlines consider important for greater aviation safety."
Date: March 20, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Internal Revenue Service: Interim Results of 2012 Tax Filing Season and Summary of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (open access)

Internal Revenue Service: Interim Results of 2012 Tax Filing Season and Summary of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In summary, so far this filing season, IRS"
Date: March 20, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modernizing SSA Disability Programs: Preliminary Observations on Updates of Medical and Occupational Criteria (open access)

Modernizing SSA Disability Programs: Preliminary Observations on Updates of Medical and Occupational Criteria

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Social Security Administration (SSA) has made several changes to improve the process it uses for updating its medical criteria, but continues to face challenges ensuring timely updates. SSA’s medical criteria for adults are in the form of listings of medical conditions and impairments organized under 14 body systems, which SSA periodically updates. To help ensure timely, periodic updates of a body system’s listings, SSA is moving away from comprehensively revising a body system’s listings toward a more targeted approach, wherein SSA selects for revision those impairment listings most in need of change. To date, SSA has completed comprehensive revisions of listings for 8 of the 14 body systems and now is in the process of reviewing them to determine whether and which targeted revisions are appropriate. In 2010, the SSA Commissioner set a 5-year cycle time for updating listings for each body system, replacing the agency’s prior practice of setting expiration dates for listings that ranged from 3 to 8 years and then frequently extending them. To further increase the timeliness and accuracy of decisions, SSA has sought recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and has acted …
Date: March 20, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Added Resources and Reduced Risk, but Concurrency Is Still a Major Concern (open access)

Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Added Resources and Reduced Risk, but Concurrency Is Still a Major Concern

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins ""
Date: March 20, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing Preparedness Grants and Assessing National Capabilities: Continuing Challenges Impede FEMA's Progress (open access)

Managing Preparedness Grants and Assessing National Capabilities: Continuing Challenges Impede FEMA's Progress

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins ""
Date: March 20, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library