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NIH conducts and sponsors biomedical research through its institutes and centers (IC), each of which is charged with a specific mission. ICs' missions generally focus on a given disease; a particular...

A high-quality personnel security clearance process is necessary to minimize the associated risks of unauthorized disclosures of classified information and to help ensure that information about...

The security situation in Central America has continued to deteriorate in recent years as Mexican drug trafficking organizations, transnational gangs, and other criminal groups have expanded their...

DHS's interest in better integrating its legacy agencies has been longstanding, and on several occasions since 2004 the department has identified an approach or vision for establishing a more unified...

The United States taxes domestic corporations on their worldwide income, regardless of where it is earned, and provides credits for foreign income taxes paid. A U.S. parent corporation may directly...

The U.S. government has invested more than $5 billion since 2009 in GPS and provides GPS service free of direct charge to users worldwide. As shown in figure 1, GPS consists of the space segment, the...

In 2012, the DNI reported that more than 4.9 million federal government and contractor employees held or were eligible to hold a personal security clearance. Furthermore, GAO has reported that the...

In March 2003, DHS was created by merging 22 disparate agencies and organizations, many of which had known financial management weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Only 5 of the agencies that transferred...

Bank holding companies are companies that own or control one or more banks. In the United States, most banks insured by FDIC are owned or controlled by a bank holding company. In addition to bank...

Information resellers-sometimes also called data brokers, data aggregators, or information solutions providers-offer several types of products to customers that include retailers, advertisers,...

The federal government's response to major disasters and emergencies in the United States is guided by the Department of Homeland Security's National Response Framework. The framework is based on a...

PREA was enacted to, among other things, establish a zero-tolerance standard for rape in U.S. prisons and make the prevention of prison rape a top priority in each prison system. PREA also charged...

In light of delays in completing security clearance background investigations and adjudicative decisions, as well as a significant backlog of clearances to be processed, Congress passed the...

The Bureau's testing program for the 2010 Census relied principally on a small number of large-scale census-like tests. Specifically, the 2010 testing program included two national tests on the...

Dynamic scoring for tax legislation has been discussed for some time. House Rule 13 has required, since 2003, that the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) provide a macroeconomic impact analysis of...

The U.S. financial regulatory structure is a complex system of multiple federal and state regulators as well as self-regulatory organizations that operates largely along functional lines. That is,...

The following sections discuss in more detail (1) our report on the financial statements and internal control over financial reporting, which includes a matter of emphasis related to the tax gap and...

In GAO's opinion, the Bureau of the Fiscal Services (Fiscal Service) Schedules of Federal Debt for fiscal years 2013 and 2012 were fairly presented in all material respects, and although information...

This section describes (1) the federal oil and gas fiscal system, (2) leasing processes, and (3) the history of oil and gas management challenges. Created by Congress in 1849, Interior oversees the...

Since Guam became a territory in 1898, the United States has long maintained a significant military presence on the island to support and defend U.S. interests in the western Pacific Ocean region...

SSA's primary mission is to pay benefits under its Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs, in accordance with Titles II and XVI of the Social Security...

DHS's seven operational components, listed along the bottom of figure 1, lead the department's frontline activities. As described in DHS's Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report, the department...

DHS's mission is to lead the unified national effort to secure the United States by preventing and deterring terrorist attacks and protecting against and responding to threats and hazards to the...

The prevalence of in-care communication systems provided by auto manufactures, PNDs, and smart phones has brought significant opportunities for consumers to access location-based serves in their cars...

A data breach can occur under many circumstances and for many reasons. A breach can be inadvertent, such as from the loss of paper documents or a portable electronic device, or deliberate, such as...

Coal is an important domestic energy source, and BLM is responsible for managing coal resources on about 570 million acres of federal, state, and private land. Since 1990, all federal coal leasing...

Legislation aimed at preventing trafficking in persons (TIP) is unambiguously part of the legislative agenda of the 113th Congress. TIP is believed to be one of the most prolific areas of...

The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program provides non-reciprocal, duty-free tariff treatment to certain products imported from designated beneficiary developing countries (BDCs). The...

The Internet is often described as a "network of networks" because it is not a single physical entity, but hundreds of thousands of interconnected networks linking hundreds of millions of computers...

For almost six decades, the United States has played a leading role in global efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition and to enhance world food security through international food aid...