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Osprey begins its combat test
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GOP Possibles Keep an Eye on Platts’ Possible Leap
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DOD to scrutinize contractors' support services
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Review Finds Fraud in Contracts Awarded in Disabled Veterans Program
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GAO: Full recovery of auto investment unlikely
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Competitive Bidding for Manufacturers?
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Administration replaces beleaguered director of Defense agency
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Government accountability office: United States Export Licenses take too long
- 2008-03-01
[The editor of the DISAM Journal would like to thank the Defense News for allowing us to reprint the following article. DefenseNews can be accessed through the following web site: http://www.defensenews.com.] A U.S. government study confirms what the defense industry has been complaining about for years. It takes too...
Get In the Vote
- 2007-11-01
Law Review 0759GAO issues scathing report on voting woes for military members.The Government Accountability Office GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, on June 14 issued a report lambasting the efforts of the Department of Defense DoD and the Election Assistance Commission in administering the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting...
Web Watch
- 2007-09-01
This month's Web Watch focuses on quality in government. For more quality related websites, visit www.asq.org/links.www.excelgov.orgThis is the site for the Council for Excellence in Government, which works to improve U.S. government performance. The site features articles, information about collaboration with other organizations and other programs of the council.www.gao.gov/main.htmlThe Government...
Bomb smugglers: border security woes
- 2006-07-01
ACCORDING TO the Government Accountability Office GAO, the Department of Homeland Security has fallen far behind in its effort to install portal monitors and handheld radiation detection equipment at points of entry into the United States. That's too bad, because in a recent spot check of radiation-detection equipment at the...
Hearing Exposes Gaps in Port and Container Security
- 2006-05-01
Last month, Sens. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) held a Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations PSI hearing to examine the threat of nuclear terrorism and assess programs to secure, detect and interdict nuclear and radiological materials domestically and abroad. The hearing, titled "Neutralizing the Nuclear and Radiological Threat: Securing...
Finding out what's in that box.(CARGO SECURITY)
- 2006-05-01
When private port security personnel reported a group of Chinese spotted wandering into a cargo area at the Seattle seaport at 1:00 AM, April 5, it led to the detention of 18 men and four women. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They had been smuggled...
Websites & electronic newsletters
- 2006-01-01
The first table below contains hypertext links to websites that practitioners in the government contract and fiscal law fields utilize most often. If you are viewing this document in an electronic format, you can click on the web address in the second column and open the requested website. Particularly useful...
Department of Defense press release : GAO reports
- 2005-09-01
The following Government Accountability Office GAO reports may be downloaded from the GAO Web site at <http://www.gao.gov>. National Defense DoD's High-Risk Areas: Successful Business Transformation Requires Sound Strategic Planning and Sustained Leadership, GAO-05-520T, April 13, 2005 Air Force Procurement: Protests Challenging Role of Biased Official Sustained, GAO-05-436T,...
Secure Flight in holding pattern.(News and Trends)
- 2005-06-01
A government report, as well as its competing interpretations, has raised questions about when the latest passenger prescreening system for commercial flights will take wing. Secure Flight, the latest iteration of the scuttled Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II CAPPS II, must overcome several serious challenges, according...
GAO reports
- 2005-03-01
The following Government Accountability Office GAO reports may be downloaded from the GAO Web site at <http://www.gao.gov>: Best Practices: Using Spend Analysis to Help Agencies Take a More Strategic Approach to Procurement, GAO-04-870, Sept. 16, 2004 Defense Acquisitions: Better Information Could Improve Visibility over Adjustments to DoD's Research...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
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| Paul Nicholas | Assistant Director |
| Dolores H Crawford | Manager |
| Allison D. Pugsley | |
| David Walker | Head |
| Kate Walker | Senior Analyst |
| Steven J Berke | Senior Analyst |
| Katherine Davis | Editor |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| North American IPV6 Technology Conference | Assistant Director, U.S. Government Accountability Office (Gao) | Current |
| Government Accountability Office | Assistant Director | Current |
| Indiana University | Bachelor's Degree In History | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Government Accountability Office | Manager | Current |
| FDR Conferences, Inc | Current |
Allison Pugsley's practice focuses primarily on advising clients on both regulatory and litigation matters relating to government contracts. In this regard, her practice concentrates on health care contracting matters, where she advises clients on federal pharmaceutical pricing requirements, government health care contracting programs, Federal Supply Schedule contracts, and socio-economic requirements applicable to government procurements. Her practice also includes litigating bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and advising clients on contract disputes. Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Allison served as a judicial clerk to The Honorable George W. Miller of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Hogan & Hartson LLP | Associate, Washington, D.C. | Current |
| United States Court of Federal Claims | Current | |
| Government Accountability Office | Current |
United States Comptroller General, David Walker, who is head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), spoke to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging in Washington, D.C. in December. His message about the country's financial condition and our dire long-term picture should be required reading for every American reports The Seattle Times. When introducing him, the conference chair called Walker a "straight shooter" and said his long tenure (a 15-year term that began in 1998) gives him an independence that's rare in government. He's going to need it. The picture he painted is beyond grim.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Government Accountability Office | Head | Current |
| So Baby Boomer | Current |
Kate Walker has been a senior analyst with the strategic issues team at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for more than three years. At GAO, Kate has focused on a number of human capital issues, including strategic workforce planning, performance management, attrition and retention, and leadership development. Ms. Walker is president of Young Government Leaders, an organization of more than 1,300 young federal employees representing thirty agencies. She participated on panels addressing generational differences at the 2006 Office of Personnel Management Workforce Conference and the Federal Executive Board. She coauthored "Talkin' 'bout My Generation" (The Public Manager, Summer 2006, Volume 35, No. 2) and authored "Making the Federal Government Work for Women" (The Public Manager, Spring 2007, Volume 36, No. 1). Ms. Walker has been interviewed by Federal News Radio (1050), Federal Times.com, and Government Executive. She holds a master of public policy degree from American University and a BA in English and psychology from the University of Virginia.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Young Government Leaders | President | Current |
| Government Accountability Office | Senior Analyst | Current |
| The Public Manager | Board of Directors | Current |
| University of Virginia | Master | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Government Accountability Office | Senior Analyst | Current |
| FDR Conferences, Inc | Current | |
| The George Washington University | Masters of Public Administration Degree | Former |
| The George Washington University | Bachelor's Degree In Public Affairs | Former |
Previously, Katherine Davis' poetry has appeared in CutBank and Weber Studies: Voices and Viewpoints of the Contemporary West. A former English teacher in Pocatello, Idaho, she is currently employed as a writer and editor for the Government Accountability Office in Washington, D.C.
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Government Accountability Office | Editor | Current |
| Plum Ruby Review | Current |
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