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1995réf. 46450Washington DC: GAO 1995. First Edition. First Printing. good. 28 cm 186 wraps illus. footnotes GAO paperback
1993réf. ABE-447858256The Office The Office distributor 1993. Unknown Binding. Very Good. Title: Illicit Narcotics: Recent Efforts to Control Chemical Diversion and Money Laundering GAO/NSIAD-94-34. Very Good-Minus condition. Tight clean text staple-bound 54 pp. December 1993 issue; penned nos. on cover embossed library imprint minor corner wear. The Office The Office [distributor unknown
1999réf. 52266Place_Pub: Washington DC: GAO 1999. new. 1287 total 22-volume set wraps footnotes tables books removed from original shrink wrap for cataloguing. This special series of reports discusses governmentwide challenges which must be addressed to improve the performance management and accountability of federal agencies in volume 1 and focuses on the challenges confronting individual agencies in volumes 2-21. Volume 22 reports on government operations which the GAO has identified as "high risk" because of their greater vulnerabilities to waste fraud abuse and mismanagement. Subtitles as follows: A Governmentwide Perspective GAO/OCG-99-1 130 pg.; Dept. of Agriculture GAO/OCG-99-2 48 pg.; Dept. of Commerce GAO/OCG-99-3 56 pg.; Dept. of Defense GAO/OCG-99-4 74 pg.; Dept. of Education GAO/OCG-99-5 40 pg.; Dept. of Energy GAO-OCG-99-6 36 pg.; Dept. of Health and Human Services GAO-OCG-99-7 53 pg.; Dept. of Housing and Urban Development GAO-OCG-99-8 72 pg.; Dept. of the Interior GAO/OCG-99-9 41 pg.; Dept. of Justice GAO/OCG-99-10 55 pg.; Dept. of Labor GAO/OCG-99-11 41 pg.; Dept. of State GAO/OCG-99-12 39 pg.; Dept. of Transportation GAO/OCG-99-13 75 pg.; Dept. of the Treasury GAO/OCG-99-14 85 pg.; Dept. of Veterans Affairs GAO/OCG-99-15 55 pg.; Agency for International Development GAO/OCG-99-16 22 pg.; Environmental Protection Agency GAO/OCG-99-17 48 pg.; National Aeronautics and Space Admin. GAO/OCG-99-18 33 pg.; Nuclear Regulatory Commission GAO/OCG-99-19 26 pg.; Social Security Administration GAO/OCG-99-20 36 pg.; U.S. Postal Service GAO/OCG-99-21 42 pg.; High-Risk Series: An Update GAO/HR-99-1 180 pg. GAO paperback
1995réf. 47859Washington DC: GAO 1995. very good. 29 cm 153 wraps. This report responds to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 P.L. 101-510 as amended which requires the GAO to provide to the Congress and the Commission by no later than April 15 1995 a report on the recommendations and selection process. This is a critically important analysis of a major defense consolidation and cost-cutting activity in the post-Cold War era near the end of the 20th century. GAO paperback
1998réf. 49870Washington DC: GAO 1998. First Edition. First Printing. good. 28 cm 192 wraps illus. footnotes GAO paperback
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1994réf. 40435Washington DC: GAO 1994. good. 240 wraps includes two computer disks inside front cover tables Appendix I is a quick reference to the electronic edition. Front cover slightly weak probably due to presence of computer diskettes. Annual Report to the Chairman House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. GAO document B-205879. In fiscal year 1993 GAO made over 1 500 recommendations. This report includes summaries highlighting the impact of GAO's work and information on the status of all GAO recommendations that have not been fully implemented. The set of computer diskettes have details on all open recommendations. The diskettes have several menu options to help users find information easily. This is an interesting and important snapshot of government operations at the start ofthe Clinton Administration. GAO paperback
1992réf. 45007Washington DC: GAO 1992. First Edition. First Printing. very good. approx. 600 wraps 2-vol. set index Part A and B only Part A is entitled Improving National Security and International Affairs Programs GAO/OP-92-1A; Part B is entitled Improving Resources Community and Economic Development Programs GAO/OP-92-1B. GAO paperback
1992réf. 52823Place_Pub: Washington DC: GAO 1992. First Edition. First Printing. good. 28 cm 128 wraps illus. pencil erasure on page 1 mailing label on rear cover. Published in December 1992. GAO paperback
1994réf. ABE-447858236The Office 1994. Unknown Binding. Very Good. Title: United Nations: How Assessed Contributions for Peacekeeping Operations Are Calculated GAO/NSIAD-94-206. Tight clean text staple-bound 36 pp. August 1994 issue; penned nos. on cover impressed library name on bottom front cover quite minor corner wear. The Office unknown
1995réf. 52262Place_Pub: Washington DC: GAO 1995. very good. quarto 54 wraps footnotes figures charts appendices A review of salaries and benefits of employees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. GAO paperback
1973Ex Library (University of London) hardcover in very good condition. No jacket. A few light marks on the tanned page block and one or two pages. Label on front pastedown; stamps at a few points. Minor crease on BEP. Binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
1975Ex Library (University of London) hardcover in very good condition. No jacket. A few light marks on one or two pages. Label on front pastedown; stamps at a few points. Binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
2002Special Issue: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference "Random Structures and Algorithms" Held August 6-10, 2001 . Slight wear to edges of binding. Contents clean and sound throughout. Used
1769réf. 032970Unknown 1769-1789. First Edition. Leather. Very Good. The Worshipful Company of Drapers is one of the 110 livery companies of the City of London. It has the formal name: The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London. More usually known simply as the Drapers' Company it is one of the historic Great Twelve Livery Companies and was founded during the Middle Ages. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles are currently members. Full tree calf leather with original dual red and black spine labels. Raised bands. Front hinge starting. Some marginalia and underlining. Handwriting on last three 3 free end papers. Rare first edition. Full refund if not satisfied. Unknown hardcover
1984réf. 155219Washington DC: General Accounting Office 1984. Pamphlet. v 78p. wraps 8.5x11 inches wraps toned along stapled edge else very good condition. General Accounting Office unknown books
1997réf. 105119Washington: GPO 1997. Magazine. 28p. 8.5x11 inches appendixes tables figures very good booklet in stapled blue wraps. GPO unknown books
1998réf. 91268Washington DC: United States General Accounting Office 1998. Presumed First Edition First Printing. Wraps. Good. 46 pages. Front cover corner creased. Report to the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Science Technology and Space Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation U.S. Senate. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA and the Department of Defense DOD operate several types of aerospace test facilities including wind tunnels and rocket engine test stands. The NASA and the DOD operate several types of aerospace test facilities including wind tunnels and rocket engine test stands. Congress has been appropriating less money for aerospace programs. In response to declining budgets and reductions in personnel NASA and DOD agreed in 1995 to perform essential aerospace testing on a more cooperative basis. The agencies recommended in April 1996 that they establish joint working groups to assess and make recommendations on investments and other issues. GAO is providing the results of our review of NASA's and DOD's cooperation since May 1996 to develop a national perspective on aerospace test facilities. To assess the progress GAO determined 1 the extent to which NASA/DOD working groups on major test facilities have been operating on a regular basis 2 NASA's and DOD's actions in response to a future need to test an engine for new Air Force rockets 3 whether NASA and DOD prepared a congressionally required joint plan on rocket propulsion test facilities and 4 whether NASA and DOD are implementing a DOD assessment team's recommendation in 1997 to jointly manage with NASA certain aeronautical test facilities. This report includes a matter for congressional consideration. The GAO found that the promise of closer NASA/DOD cooperation and the development of a national perspective on aerospace test facilities remains largely unfulfilled because NASA and DOD 1 have not yet convened most test facility alliances 2 compete with each other to test engines for new rockets and 3 did not prepare a congressionally required joint plan on rocket propulsion test facilities. Although NASA and DOD have agreed to go beyond cooperative alliances in aeronautics and jointly manage their aeronautical test facilities they have not yet reached agreement on key aspects of a management organization. NASA and DOD took 20 months May 1996 through Dec. 1997 to negotiate and sign agreements formally establishing the six test facility-related cooperative alliances. During that time only the space environmental simulation alliance met regularly and conducted business. The already established rocket propulsion alliance met only once during this period despite a desire by some members to meet regularly. NASA and DOD officials did not regularly convene the other four alliances in the absence of approved charters. Despite the formation of the rocket propulsion alliance NASA and DOD compete against each other to test engines for new rocket programs. A principal arena of competition is the next phase of the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle EELV program. In particular the Air Force has spent millions of dollars to upgrade a test stand on the assumption that it not NASA would test EELV engines. DOD did not prepare a legislatively mandated joint plan with NASA to coordinate rocket propulsion test facilities. United States General Accounting Office paperback
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1995réf. 91265Washington DC: United States General Accounting Office 1995. Presumed First Edition First Printing. Wraps. Very good. 31 1 pages. Briefing Report to the Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Committee on Science House of Representatives. In April 1994 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA estimated that it would cost about $475 million for a Titan IV-Centaur launch of its Cassini spacecraft. Concerned about the cost as the Chairman of the former Subcommittee on Space House Committee on Science Space and Technology you requested that we provide information about the current estimated cost for the Cassini launch and determine the extent to which cost saving opportunities exist. On April 11 1995 we briefed your staff on the results of our work. This report contains the information presented at that briefing. NASA plans to launch its Cassini spacecraft to Saturn in October 1997. Following a voyage of more than 6 years the spacecraft will orbit Saturn for 4 years. Cassini will provide intensive long-term observations of Saturn's atmosphere rings magnetic fields and moons. Cassini's probe will be used to analyze the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Cassini a joint U.S.-European mission was originally paired with a project to explore comets and asteroids the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby CRAF. Cassini was first funded by Congress in fiscal year 1990. Since then CRAF was canceled and Cassini's original scientific capabilities have been reduced and its launch schedule extended. NASA is responsible for the overall success of the Cassini mission including integrating the spacecraft with the launch vehicle and approving the final launch. Under an agreement with NASA the Air Force will provide a Titan IV expendable launch vehicle with a Centaur upper stage and launch service from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA's most recent estimate for the Titan IV-Centaur launch of its Cassini spacecraft is about $452 million approximately $23 million less than its $475-million estimate in April 1994. The decrease occurred principally because NASA reduced its earlier estimate of mission integration costs. The $452-million estimate includes about $253 million paid to the Air Force for a Titan IV-Centaur launch vehicle and launch services. The remaining Cassini launch costs are NASA funding to pay for potential future cost increases mission integration prior-year studies support by two NASA field centers and miscellaneous costs. The Air Force estimates that its cost for launch vehicle and services is about $98 million more than the $253 million NASA will pay. Air Force officials believe there are benefits to providing a launch vehicle for Cassini. For example the Air Force will avoid an estimated $11.5 million to $13.8 million in storage charges and will reduce mission reliability risk due to the aging of components. Reductions in the cost of the Cassini launch may be possible because NASA recently completed its negotiation of the mission integration contract for $15 million less than estimated. However cost savings in other areas of the Cassini launch are unlikely and some of NASA's costs could increase. Also NASA missed a potential cost-saving opportunity because its agreement with the Air Force does not require the Air Force to refund NASA payments in excess of cost. Consequently the Air Force is not required to refund to NASA fees that the Air Force does not pay to the Titan IV contractor. These fees include $2 million in award fees and a $9-million incentive fee. In addition NASA's mission integration contract does not fully comply with the agency's revised policy for cost-plus-award-fee contracts which was implemented to encourage contractors to deliver quality products at reasonable costs. United States General Accounting Office paperback
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2000réf. 91334Washington DC: United States General Accounting Office 2000. Presumed First Edition First Printing. Wraps. Very good. 47 1 pages Footnotes. Figures. Tables. A "Report to the Chairman Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Committee on Armed Services". The increasing use of military and commercial satellite systems for national security and business purposes will have significant implications for the United States in the 21st century. The Department of Defense DOD has traditionally used satellite systems in passive roles to support military operations-for example to collect intelligence data warn of ballistic missile launches transmit voice and data communications obtain meteorological data and provide navigation signals. Now plans are being developed to expand the use of military satellite systems and develop technologies such as lasers and electronic jammers that could be used to actively conduct combat operations from space. With advances in information technology the commercial use of satellites is also expanding particularly in telecommunications. In addition single satellite systems-for example navigation environmental and imagery systems-that originally served government missions are increasingly providing capabilities to both government and commercial users. The nongovernment applications are now generating large amounts of commercial revenue. National space policy treats U.S. satellite systems as national property that organizations have the right to operate without deliberate interference. To the extent that such interference were to occur the U.S. Space Command visualizes that military forces may be called upon to provide protection just as navies protected sea commerce. The U.S. Space Command's long-range plan and the Air Force Space Command's supporting strategic master plan provide for the protection of U.S. national interests and investments in space but they do not fully conform to DOD's new space policy. The plans propose space systems only and do not provide for an assessment of the cost-effectiveness of terrestrial-land sea and air-systems as alternatives to space systems which is called for in DOD's policy. An example of such a comparative assessment would be between satellite and aircraft radar systems. In addition DOD lacks the modeling and simulation tools necessary to perform such assessments a capability that is also called for in DOD's space policy. Finally it is unclear which DOD organization has the authority and capability to perform comparative assessments between space and terrestrial systems since such assessments are outside the purview of the U.S. and Air Force Space Commands. These factors prevent DOD from being assured that the most cost-effective approaches will be considered in making decisions on the expansion of space systems. The extent to which the Air Force's 18-year program projection supports planned military space programs and desired capabilities was unverifiable. Although several of the planned space systems such as a space-based radar and a space-based laser are included in the Air Force's program projection the cost estimates in the Air Force Space Command's strategic master plan were not directly traceable to the 18-year program funding projections. They were not traceable because the data were aggregated differently and program nomenclatures differed. Air Force Space Command representatives stated that they intend to institute changes to bring about consistency between the documents. A more important matter is uncertainty about the availability of several billions of dollars in funding increases that the Air Force has projected for space system expansion. During the first 6 years of the 18-year projection fiscal years 2000-05 programmed increases are uncertain because the President and the Congress have not agreed on overall funding increases to DOD. During the last 12 years of the projection fiscal years 2006-17 the Air Force relies on planned funding increases for program modernization without identifying funding sources thus creating additional uncertainty and putting the expansion of space systems in jeopardy for affordability reasons. DOD has not given sufficient attention to providing military personnel with space education to support future military space operations. DOD's new space policy requires that information about space force structure missions capabilities and applications be incorporated into professional military education. However joint military doctrine on space operations that is necessary to implement the policy has not been issued because of disagreement among the services on the doctrine's content. Leaving the disagreement unresolved hinders common understanding for the use of space systems in military operations. In addition until the doctrine is provided DOD and military service educational institutions will lack guidance for the development of space education curricula and for determining whether existing curricula need to be modified. This report contains recommendations to the Secretary of Defense that would 1 require space plans to include analyses of terrestrial systems as alternatives 2 establish the necessary modeling and simulation tools to perform such analyses 3 identify and/or establish the DOD office to perform the analyses 4 address the delay in completing joint doctrine for space operations and 5 provide the necessary instructions to DOD and military service colleges and schools for incorporating essential space information into professional military education curricula. DOD concurred with our recommendations and provided comments. United States General Accounting Office paperback