Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Friday's Miscellany 06-26-2009

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· Comparing German and American Models in Skill Formation

· The Future of Germany’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: European, Transatlantic, and Eventually More German?

· Germany and Elections: Dodging the Afghanistan Bullet

· Merkel and Obama: Setting Agendas in Washington
· From Rubble Women to Madam Chancellor: Women’s Long March through the Institutions in Germany

The American Prospect
· The Other Sons of Iraq


Army Command and Staff College
· Design: Tools of the Trade


Army Ground Combat Vehicle Blue Ribbon Panel
· Comprehensive Lessons Learned White Paper (DRAFT)
· The Operational Environment Paper

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
· Major School Shooting in the United States Since 1997
· No Gun Left Behind: The Gun Lobby’s Campaign to Push Guns into Colleges and Schools

Brookings
· Designing Detention: A Model Law for Terrorist Incapacitation

· Statutory PAYGO: An Important First Step Toward Fiscal Responsibility

· An Update on the Economic and Fiscal Crises: 2009 and Beyond

· Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Dancing on Snake Heads in Yemen


Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
· Developments in the Global Economy

· Iran’s Clenched Fist Election: What Next for U.S. Policy?

· Iran's Elections: The International Implications

Center for a New American Strategy (CNAS)
· Interactive Map: Fighting Pushes Pakistanis from Their Homes and Threatens Further Instability
· The New Strategy in Afghanistan
· Striking a Balance: A New American Security

Center for American Progress
· Ending “Don‟t Ask, Don‟t Tell”


Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
· Privacy and the White House Cyberspace Policy Review

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
· Illegal, but Not Undocumented: Identity Theft, Document Fraud and Illegal Employment

Center for Security Policy
· Will Brazil and China Abandon the Dollar?

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Issues & Insights v. 09, no. 11
*China’s Challenge to the International Monetary System: Incremental Steps and Long-Term Prospects for Internationalization of the Renminbi

Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)
· The Active Denial System: A Revolutionary Non-Lethal Weapon for Today’s Battlefield

· Computer Science Research Funding: How Much Is Too Little?
· Improving the Interface Between Industry and Army Science and Technology: Some Thoughts on the Army’s Independent Research and Development Program

Centre for European Reform
· The EU's Approach to Israel and the Palestinians: A Move in the Right Direction


Century Foundation
· U.S.-Russian Relations and the Democracy and Rule of Law Deficit


Chatham House
· Preliminary Analysis of the Voting Figures in Iran’s 2009 Presidential Election


Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings

*Raising Thinking from the Tactical to the Operational Level: JPME I and II at the Services’ and Joint Command and Staff Colleges [June 25, 2009]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Japan’s Changing Role

· The July Summit and Beyond: Prospects for U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Reductions
· A Regional Overview of South Asia

· Somalia: Prospects for Lasting Peace and a Unified Response to Extremism and Terrorism

· U.S. - Africa Trade Relations: Creating a Platform for Economic Growth


Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· FY2010 Budget for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security

· MARKUP of H.R. 2868 - “The Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009”


Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee
· Afghanistan and Pakistan: Oversight of a New Interagency Strategy
· The Future of the V-22 Osprey: Costs, Capabilities, and Challenges
· Joint Full Committee and Subcommittee on Domestic Policy Hearing Titled: "Bank of America and Merrill Lynch: How Did a Private Deal Turn Into a Federal Bailout? Part II

Congress. House. Science and Technology Committee
· Assessing Cybersecurity Activities at NIST and DHS

· The Science of Security: Lessons Learned in Developing, Testing and Operating Advanced Radiation Monitors

Congress. Senate. Foreign Affairs
· Confronting Drug Trafficking in West Africa

· Iran at a Crossroads?


Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009


Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· The Long-Term Budget Outlook

· Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget

· The Troubled Asset Relief Program: Report on Transactions Through June 17, 2009

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Iran's Revolutionary Guards

· Trade and Climate Change

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· Results From Assessment of DoD's Plans for Implementing the Requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Memorandum No. D-2009-RAM-001)


Department of Homeland Security
· Privacy and Civil Liberties Policy Guidance Memorandum


Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics
· Trends in Naturalization Rates: 2008 Update


Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-09-77 - FEMA's Acquisition of Two Warehouses to Support Hurricane Katrina Response Operations

· OIG-09-75 - U.S. Coast Guard's Plan to Improve Deepwater Accountability (Letter Report)
· OIG-09-73 - Independent Auditor's Report on USCG's FY 2008 Mission Action Plans included in the DHS FY 2009 Internal Control Playbook

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA)
· Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Update


Department of Justice
· Attorney General’s Annual Report to Congress and Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons Fiscal Year 2008


Department of the Army
· 2009 Army Posture Statement


Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)

Foreign Policy Research Institute
· Palestinian Security Reform: A Moment of Truth

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Army Corps of Engineers: Recent Changes Have Reduced the Use of Continuing Contracts, but Management Processes Need to Be Improved, GAO-09-552

· Aviation Safety: Better Data and Targeted FAA Efforts Needed to Identify and Address Safety Issues of Small Air Cargo Carriers, GAO-09-614
· Coast Guard: Observations on the Genesis and Progress of the Service's Modernization Program, GAO-09-530R
· Combating Nuclear Smuggling: DHS Improved Testing of Advanced Radiation Detection Portal Monitors, but Preliminary Results Show Limits of the New Technology, GAO-09-655
· Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Lessons Learned from DHS Testing of Advanced Radiation Detection Portal Monitors, GAO-09-804T [testimony]
· Contract Management: Minimal Compliance with New Safeguards for Time-and-Materials Contracts for Commercial Services and Safeguards Have Not Been Applied to GSA Schedules Program, GAO-09-579
· Cybersecurity: Continued Federal Efforts Are Needed to Protect Critical Systems and Information, GAO-09-835T [testimony]

· Defense Acquisitions: Assessments Needed to Address V-22 Aircraft Operational and Cost Concerns to Define Future Investments, GAO-09-482

· The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Critical Infrastructure Protection Cost-Benefit Report, GAO-09-654R
· Defense Logistics: Information on the Test and Evaluation and Assignment and Cancellation of National Stock Numbers as It Relates to MILITEC-1, GAO-09-735R
· Energy Markets: Estimates of the Effects of Mergers and Market Concentration on Wholesale Gasoline Prices, GAO-09-659

· Firearm and Explosives Background Checks Involving Terrorist Watch List Records, GAO-09-125R

· Human Capital: Actions Needed to Better Track and Provide Timely and Accurate Compensation and Medical Benefits to Deployed Federal Civilians, GAO-09-562

· Human Capital: Continued Monitoring of Internal Safeguards and an Action Plan to Address Employee Concerns Could Improve Implementation of the National Security Personnel System, GAO-09-840

· International Aviation: Federal Efforts Help Address Safety Challenges in Africa, but Could Benefit from Reassessment and Better Coordination, GAO-09-498
· Military Personnel: Reserve Component Servicemembers on Average Earn More Income while Activated, GAO-09-688R
· V-22 Osprey Aircraft: Assessments Needed to Address Operational and Cost Concerns to Define Future Investments, GAO-09-692T [testimony]


Heritage Foundation
· Create a National Defense Panel to Independently Judge Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review
http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/wm_2500.pdf
· Do DHS Fire Grants Reduce Fire Casualties?

· The FY 2010 Defense Budget Request: Prelude to Another Procurement Holiday?
· The Iranian Elections and Public Diplomacy 2.0: A Tale of Untapped Potential

· Maritime Security: Fighting Piracy in the Gulf of Aden and Beyond

· Moving Forward on Missile Defense

Human Rights Watch
· Kosovo: Poisoned by Lead: A Health and Human Rights Crisis in Mitrovica’s Roma Camps

· No One to Intervene: Gaps in Civilian Protection in Southern Sudan

· The Risk of Return: Repatriating the Displaced in the Context of Conflict in Eastern Chad
· "They Put Me in the Hole": Military Detention, Torture, and Lack of Due Process in Cabinda


Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
· MRAPs, Irregular Warfare, and Pentagon Reform

· McNair Paper no. 70 – Saddam’s War: An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War
· Strategic Forum no. 241 Diverging Roads: 21st- Century U.S.-Thai Defense Relations


Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· 18 Jun 2009: The proposed AU Authority: Hybridisation, Balancing Intergovernmentalism and Supranationalism

· 01 June 2009: ISS Paper 188: Elections and Accountability in South Africa


International Crisis Group
· Afghanistan's Election Challenges

· Georgia-Russia: Still Insecure and Dangerous

· Guinea-Bissau: Beyond Rule of the Gun
· Policing in Conflict States – Lessons from Afghanistan

· Recruiting Militants in Southern Thailand

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, no. 13, June 24, 2009

*CCP Campaign for a New Generation of "Red and Expert" Officials
*Chinese ASBM Development: Knowns and Unknowns
*A Chinese Turn to Mahan?
*Deepening Naval Cooperation between Islamabad and Beijing
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 8, June 26, 2009

*The Islamic Shi'a Resistance in Iraq and Iran's Confrontation with the U.K.
*Suicide Bombing Kills Somali Security Minister as Islamists Mount Assault on Mogadishu
*Sleeper Cells and Shi'a Secessionists in Saudi Arabia: A Salafist Perspective
*Mystery Surrounds Alleged Hezbollah Links to Drug Arrests in Curacao

Joint Chiefs of Staff
· JP 3-40, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction,10 June 2009


Lexington Institute
· Congress Should Move Forward on a New Bomber

· Delay of Army Warfighter Network Would Be Dangerous


Mayors Against Illegal Guns
· Inside Straw Purchasing How Criminals Get Guns Illegally
· Movement of Illegal Guns in America

Mineta Transportation Institute
· The Role of Transportation in Campus Emergency Planning


National Academies Press (NAP)
· Approaches to Future Space Cooperation and Competition in a Globalizing World: Summary of a Workshop
[download is free but registration is required]
· Assessing Medical Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event: Workshop Report
[download is free but registration is required]
· Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects
[download is free but registration is required]
· Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
[download is free but registration is required]
· The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: Assessing Pre-Katrina Vulnerability and Improving Mitigation and Preparedness
[download is free but registration is required]
· Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications
[download is free but registration is required]

New America Foundation
· Green Trade Balance


Peterson Institute for International Economics
· China's Changing Outbound Foreign Direct Investment Profile: Drivers and Policy Implications

· The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons Learned and Challenges for Developing Countries [speech]

· India's Goldilocks Globalization


RAND
·
Foundations of Effective Influence Operations: A Framework for Enhancing Army Capabilities
· Police Recruitment and Retention in the Contemporary Urban Environment: A National Discussion of Personnel Experiences and Promising Practices from the Front Lines


Small Wars Journal
· Turkey’s Border Porosity Problem with PKK

· Counterinsurgency: Is “Air Control” the Answer?
· Common Analytic Standards: Intelligence Community Directive # 203 and U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence
· The Seven Deadly Questions: How to Think about Mexico and Beyond
· Poppy is Not the Most Profitable Crop, It’s the Only Crop

Stanley Foundation
· Achieving Nonproliferation Goals: Moving From Denial to Technology Governance


State Department
· 2009 Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 Report to Congress

· Political Violence Against Americans 2008


State Department Office of Inspector General
· Performance Audit of the DynCorp Contract for Personal Protective Services in Iraq (MERO-IQO-09-06)

· Nonimmigrant Visa Adjudication: the Visa Referral Process (ISP-CA-05-56)

· The U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (ISP-I-05-09)


Stimson Center
· Achieving Nonproliferation Goals: Moving From Denial to Technology Governance

· Nuclear CBMs for South Asian Regional Stability


Strategic Studies Institute
· 2009 Key Strategic Issues List

· New Partnerships for a New Era: Enhancing the South African Army's Stabilization Role in Africa

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
· 2009 World Drug Report


USCENTCOM
· Unclassified executive summary of the USCENTCOM investigation into civilian casualties in Farah Province, Afghanistan


The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Defending the City: NYPD's Counterterrorism Operations
· The Eight Books Ahmadinejad Doesn't Want You to Read
· Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East

· The Security Forces of the Islamic Republic and the Fate of the Opposition






House Intelligence Committee Report

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence approved the bill H.R. 2701 and released its report on the Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. The report is House Report 111-186

The Chairman's statement about this report says,
among other things, the bill "amends the National Security Act to change the way Congress is 'fully and currently' informed of all intelligence activities." In a second provision, the bill creates a statutory and independent Intelligence Community-wide Inspector General (IC/IG).

The bill also:
· Authorizes an increase in funding for human intelligence collection and counterintelligence activities as well as research and technology
· Funding in support of US efforts in Afghanistan Pakistan as well as other global security issues
· Investment in cybersecurity capabilities
· Investment in critical language capabilities including five high-priority African languages

Monday, June 22, 2009

REPORT -- Political Violence Against Americans 2008

The State Department has released the latest version of their report Political Violence Against Americans 2008.

There were no reports produced from 2003-2007.

Other versions of this report are available at
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/rpt/19691.htm

This report was known as Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans from 1987-1997 and there was also a previous study Lethal Terrorist Actions Against Americans: 1973-1986.

CENTCOM report on the civilian casualties in Farah Province, Afghanistan

The unclassified executive summary of the USCENTCOM investigation into civilian casualties in Farah Province, Afghanistan on 4 May 2009 is now available at
http://www.centcom.mil/images/pdf/uscentcom%20farah%20unclass%20exsum%2018%20jun%2009.pdf

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Friday's Miscellany 06-19-2009

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
· Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity: Chilling Muslim Charitable Giving in the 'War on Terrorism Financing


Amnesty International
· Amnesty International Report 2009


Berkman Center for Internet & Society
· Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent


Brookings Institution
· Internal Displacement in Iraq: The Process of Working toward Durable Solutions

· North Korea’s Nuclear and Missile Tests and the Six-Party Talks: Where Do We Go From Here?
· Pakistani Displacement: Lessons Learned from Other Mass Displacement Situations

· The States of Iraq and Afghanistan


Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
· Bilateral and Regional Issues in U.S.–Egyptian Relations
· The Case for a Collective Security Organization in the Gulf
· Islamists and the West: Time for a Common Vision?
· Rising Social Distress: The Case of Morocco, Egypt, and Jordan

· The Tunisian Elite and U.S. “Democratic Reform Policy”
· The United States' Challenges in the Middle East: Arab Perspectives
· The United States, Morocco and the Western Sahara Dispute
· U.S. Aid to Egypt: The Current Situation and Future Prospects

· U.S.–Algerian Security Cooperation and the War on Terror

· Uneven Crisis in Africa

CATO
· Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable: What the Failure of the "Massachusetts Model" Tells Us about Health Care Reform


Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea


Center for American Progress
· The Power of Justice: Applying International Human Rights Standards to American Domestic Practices


Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
· Repealing REAL ID? Rolling Back Driver's License Security


James Martin Center For Nonproliferation Studies
· Letter to Congress: U.S. Production of Mo-99 for Medical Radioisotopes


Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Commentary: America's Most Important Agreement Today

· Commentary: The Election: Iran as Usual?
· Commentary: Georgia-Why We Should Be Watching
· Issues & Insights Vol. 09 - No. 09 - June 2009
*Relations at Sea: The U.S.-Japan Alliance on the Oceans
· Issues & Insights Vol. 09 - No. 10 - June 2009

*The Guillotine: Japan’s Demographic Transformation and its Security Implications
· Observations From a Visit to Iraq: Memorandum to General Odierno

· U.S. Engagement in International Tobacco Control

Centre for European Reform (CER)
· Obama, Russia and Europe


Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
· Economic Impact on Caregivers of the Seriously Wounded, Ill, and Injured


Century Foundation
· The China-Russia Relationship: What It Involves, Where It Is Headed, How It Matters for the United States

· Iran Election Bulletin, Volume 1, No. 8
*Iran’s Militias Could Tip Election in Ahmadinejad’s Favor
*Political Factionalism in Iran’s Guards and Militias
*Iran’s Presidential Election Day Primer

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings

*H.R. 2647 – To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal year 2010, and for other purposes [June 16, 2009]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Exploring the Nature of Uighur Nationalism: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?

· North Korea’s Nuclear and Missile Tests and the Six-Party Talks: Where Do We Go from Here?

· Strengthening the Transatlantic Alliance: An Overview of the Obama Administration's Policies in Europe · TV Marti: A Station in Search of an Audience?
· U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico: Report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· The Chemical Facility Antiterrorism Act of 2009


Congress. House. Science and Technology Committee
· Advancing Technology for Nuclear Fuel Recycling: What Should Our Research, Development and Demonstration Strategy Be?

· Continuing Independent Assessment of the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

Congress. Senate. Armed Services
· Army Modernization and Management of the Future Combat Systems Program in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years

· Ballistic Missile Defense Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years Defense Program
· Military Construction, Environmental, and Base Closure Programs in the Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010

· Navy Shipbuilding Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years Defense Program
· U.S. Special Operations Command in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years Defense Program


Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation
· Aviation Safety: The Role and Responsibility of Commercial Air Carriers and Employees

· The Consumer Wireless Experience


Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
· Examining State Business Incorporation Practices: A Discussion of the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act

· Protecting Our Employees: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and the Federal Workforce


Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· An Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year 2010

· Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Short-Term Growth?
· Health Care Reform and the Federal Budget


Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Coping with Pyongyang: Regional Diplomacy Still Vital

· Funding the U.S. Counterinsurgency Wars

· Netanyahu Speech Aimed to Ease U.S. Relations, Unlikely to Assuage Palestinians
· Parsing Iran's 'Momentous' Internal Drama
· Presidential Power in Iran

· Realigning Pakistan's Security Forces
· Strengthening South Korean Ties


Department of Defense Inspector General
· D-2009-074 Review of Defense Contract Management Agency Support of the C-130J Aircraft Program


Department of Homeland Security
· Apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol: 2005-2008


Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-09-79 - The Special Immigrant Nonminister Religious Worker Program

· OIG-09-72 - Independent Auditor's Report on Auditability Assessment of the Department of Homeland Security's Statement of Budgetary Resources
· OIG-09-71 - FEMA Policy Relating to Coastal Velocity Zones
· OIG-09-70 - Challenges Facing FEMA's Disaster Contract Management
· OIG-09-69 - TSA's Role in General Aviation Security

Department of Justice
· Highlights of the 2007 National Youth Gang Survey


Department of the Navy
· OPNAVNST 1414.12 Naval Intelligence Professional Qualification

· OPNAVINST 1414.9B Naval Intelligence Officer Professional Qualification Program

Foreign Policy Research Institute
· Putting Together the North Korea Puzzle


Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Broadcasting to Cuba: Observations Regarding TV Marti's Strategy and Operations, GAO-09-758T [testimony]

· CBP Could Improve Its Estimation of Funding Needed for New Border Patrol Agents, GAO-09-542R

· Defense Acquisitions: Issues to be Considered for Army's Modernization of Combat Systems, GAO-09-793T [testimony]
· Defense Exports: Foreign Military Sales Program Needs Better Controls for Exported Items and Information for Oversight, GAO-09-454

· Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges, GAO-09-709
· Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges, GAO-09-781T [testimony]

· Hurricanes Gustav and Ike Disaster Assistance: FEMA Strengthened Its Fraud Prevention Controls, but Customer Service Needs Improvement, GAO-09-671

· Identity Theft: Governments Have Acted to Protect Personally Identifiable Information, but Vulnerabilities Remain, GAO-09-759T [testimony]

· Influenza Pandemic: Greater Agency Accountability Needed to Protect Federal Workers in the Event of a Pandemic, GAO-09-783T [testimony]
· Influenza Pandemic: Increased Agency Accountability Could Help Protect Federal Employees Serving the Public in the Event of a Pandemic, GAO-09-404
· International Trade: Observations on U.S. Government Efforts to Address Textile Transshipment, GAO-09-813T [testimony]
· Military Pay: The Defense Finance and Accounting Service--Indianapolis Could Improve Control Activities over Its Processing of Active Duty Army Military Personnel Federal Payroll Taxes, GAO-09-557R · Military Training: DOD Needs a Strategic Plan and Better Inventory and Requirements Data to Guide Development of Language Skills and Regional Proficiency, GAO-09-568
· NASA: Commercial Partners Are Making Progress, but Face Aggressive Schedules to Demonstrate Critical Space Station Cargo Transport Capabilities, GAO-09-618
· Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making, GAO-09-564

· Polar-Orbiting Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making, GAO-09-772T [testimony]
· Technology Transfer: Clearer Priorities and Greater Use of Innovative Approaches Could Increase the Effectiveness of Technology Transfer at Department of Energy Laboratories, GAO-09-548
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: June 2009 Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues, GAO-09-658 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09658.pdf
· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Capital Purchase Program Transactions for October 28, 2008, through May 29, 2009, and Information on Financial Agency Agreements, Contracts, Blanket Purchase Agreements, and Interagency Agreements Awarded as of June 1, 2009 (GAO-09-707SP, June 2009), an e-supplement to GAO-09-658


Healthy Families/Thriving Communities Collaborative Council
· Responding to Gang, Crew and Youth Violence in the District of Columbia: A Blueprint for Action


Heritage Foundation
· Improving U.S. Competitiveness with K-12 STEM Education and Training

· The Iranian Elections and Public Diplomacy 2.0: A Tale of Untapped Potential

· KORUS FTA Strengthens the U.S. Economy and Alliance with Korea

· The FY 2010 Defense Budget Request: Prelude to Another Procurement Holiday?
· The NATO First Act Would Advance Transatlantic Security
· Nuclear Energy Renaissance: Global Supply Chain Critical
· Obama Administration Must Speak Out Against Iran's Clenched Fist
· Obama's 2010 Defense Budget: Top Five Worst Choices for National Security
· The Obama-Berlusconi White House Meeting: Advancing U.S.-Italian Cooperation
· Rogue States and Rising Powers Continue to Pose a Strategic Risk to American Security
· The SAFETY Act: Obama Cyber Plans and the Private Sector

· U.S. Border Security: Realities and Challenges for the Obama Administration

Hudson Institute
· The Long-Term Fiscal Impact of Health Reform: Risks and Risk Management Options
http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/20090612_JB_Kuttner_longterm_fiscal_impact_health_reform.pdf

Human Rights Watch
· Discrimination, Denial, and Deportation: Human Rights Abuses Affecting Migrants Living with HIV

· An Uncivil Approach to Civil Society: Continuing State Curbs on Independent NGOs and Activists in Russia


Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· African Terrorism Bulletin, Issue 16

· ISS Paper 187: Negotiating the Convention on Cluster Munitions: The Role of African States

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS)
· Journal of Energy Security, June 2009

*China's Oil Supply Dependence
*Energy and High North Governance: Charting Uncertainty
*The US Department of Defense: Valuing Energy Security
*The Security Vulnerabilities of Smart Grid
*Iran-Pakistan Pipeline: Iran's New Economic Lifeline
*Europe's Chance to Face Up to Russia's Energy Bullying

International Crisis Group
· North Korea: Getting Back to Talks

· North Korea’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Programs
· North Korea’s Nuclear and Missile Programs


Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 17, June 18, 2009

*Reaction of the Afghan Taliban to the Pakistani Government's Offensive in Swat by Wahidullah Mohammad
*Libyan Islamists Back Away from al-Qaeda Merger in Reconciliation with Qaddafi Regime by Camille Tawil
*Weapons for Warlords: Arms Trafficking in the Gulf of Aden by Andrew Black
*Pakistani Government Offensive in Swat Heading for the Taliban of Waziristan by Mukhtar A. Khan

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund
· Confronting the New Faces of Hate: Hate Crimes in America 2009


Lexington Institute
· Missile Defense Shift Puts Spotlight on Raytheon Solution


National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)
· Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat


National Defense University Library
· U.S. Relations with the Muslim World


National Security Archive
· Air Force Audit Finds Agency Lacks Basic Systems to Comply with the Freedom of Information Act

· Secret Sentry Declassified


New America Foundation
· Workers of the World


Peterson Institute for International Economics
· A Solution for Europe's Banking Problem

· US Interests and the International Monetary Fund

· Understanding Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)


Rockefeller Institute of Government
· Who's in Charge? Who Should Be? The Role of the Federal Government in Megadisasters: Based on Lessons from Hurricane Katrina


RAND
· Innovation Procurement: Part of the Solution

· Reconstruction Under Fire: Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency
· Support for Students Exposed to Trauma: The SSET Program


Stimson Center
· Cairo: The Perfect Storm?


Strategic Studies Institute
· Challenge to Change: Developing Leaders for the Nonkinetic Fight

· China's Strategic Culture: A Perspective for the United States

· Guide to Rebuilding Governance in Stability Operations: A Role for the Military?
· Strategic Implications of Emerging Technologies


US Air Force
· Air Force Doctrine Document 2-12 - Nuclear Operations


US Global Change Research Program
· Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States


US State Department
· Trafficking in Person Report 2009


Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Defeating al-Qaeda and Neutralizing Its Support Network

· Iran's 'Election': What Happened? What Does It Mean?
· The Iranian Elections: Politics of the Supreme Leader vs. Power of the President
· Strategic Challenges in a Changing Middle East

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Friday's Miscellany 06-12-2009

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Russo-Iranian Relations from Iran's Perspective

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
The European Rhetoric of Distance
Germany's Eastern Policy on the Eve of the 2009 National Elections
The International Banking Crisis and Institutional Reforms
Miracles are Possible - Or a Classic German Approach to the Current Crisis
Obama's Opportunity: Defining Power and Purpose in U.S. Foreign Policy

Amnesty International
Serbia: Burying the Past: Impunity for Enforced Disappearances and Abductions in Kosovo
Sri Lanka: Twenty Years of Make-Believe: Sri Lanka’s Commissions of Inquiry

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Iran Update, no. 135, June 11, 2009

Brookings Institution
Comparing Technology Innovation in the Private and Public Sectors
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: EU-U.S. Cooperation on Climate Change
Internal Displacement in Iraq: The Process of Working Toward Durable Solutions
Iran's Presidential Elections: A Surge of Reformists in Politics
North Korea Collapse Scenarios
Pakistan's Displaced Girls and Women—an Opportunity for Education
Principles of Modern American Counterinsurgency: Evolution and Debate
Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
Developments in the Global Economy
Saudi Arabia’s King Changes the Guard

CATO Institute
The False Promise of Gleneagles: Misguided Priorities at the Heart of the New Push for African Development

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
After the Fire: Shaping the Future U.S. Relationship with Iraq
Beyond Bullets: A Pragmatic Strategy to Combat Violent Islamist Extremism
Beyond Bullets: Strategies for Countering Violent Extremism
Inside the Surge: One Commander’s Lessons in Counterinsurgency
Natural Security
No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea
The Obama Plan for Energy and Climate Security: Conference Proceedings and Final Recommendations
Triage: The Next Twelve Months in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Center for Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
CIP Report, June 2009, Issue 7.11

Center For Nonproliferation Studies
Disarmament and Nonproliferation Education: An Essential Tool for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

Center for Security Policy
Jerusalem, the Eternal Front Line

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Challenges to the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in 2010
Commentary: The Obama Speech: The Problem of Facts on the Ground
Critical Questions: Kim Jong-il’s Successor: Prospects for the Future in North Korea
Iran and the Challenges to Middle East Security
U.S. Engagement in International Tobacco Control

Central Intelligence Agency FIOA
Air America: Upholding the Airmen's Bond

Centre for European Reform
The EU Should Do More to Support UN Peacekeeping in Africa

Commission on Wartime Contracting
At What Cost? Contingency Contracting In Iraq and Afghanistan Interim Report to Congress

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
Hearings
o H.R. 2647– To authorize appropriations for FY10 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for FY10, and for other purposes [June 12, 2009]
o H.R. 2647 – To authorize appropriations for FY10 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for FY10, and for other purposes [June 12, 2009]
o H.R. 2647 – To authorize appropriations for FY10 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for FY10, and for other purposes. [June 12, 2009]
o H.R. 2647 – To authorize appropriations for FY10 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for FY10, and for other purposes. [June 11, 2009]
o H.R. 2647 – To authorize appropriations for FY 10 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for FY10, and for other purposes. [June 11, 2009]
o H.R. 2647 – To authorize appropriations for FY 10 for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for FY10, and for other purposes. [June 11, 2009]

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
The Future of the Grid: Proposals for Reforming National Transmission Policy

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
Foreign Policy Implications of U.S. Efforts to Address the International Financial Crisis: TARP, TALF and the G-20 Plan
Guatemala at a Crossroads
The Uighurs: A History of Persecution

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
The FY 2010 Budget for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and the U.S. Coast Guard
The FY 2010 Budget for the National Protection and Programs Directorate and the Transportation Security Administration
The FY 2010 Budget for the Directorate for Science & Technology, the Office of Health Affairs, and the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
The FY 2010 Budget for the Federal Emergency Management Agency

Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Bank of America and Merrill Lynch: How Did a Private Deal Turn Into a Federal Bailout

Congress. House. Science and Technology Committee
Cyber Security R&D
Reauthorization of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program: R&D for Disaster Resilient Communities

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
Tactical aviation programs in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Technology Committee
The Blue Economy: The Role of the Oceans in our Nation’s Economic Future
Aviation Safety: FAA’s Role in the Oversight of Air Carriers

Congress. Senate. Foreign Affairs Committee
North Korea: Back at the Brink?

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Security Contracts at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul
The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2009

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
The Legal, Moral, and National Security Consequences of 'Prolonged Detention'

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Short-Term Growth?

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs. Climate Change
Presidential Power in Iran

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
D-2009-085 Contracting for Nontactical Vehicles in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom
D-2009-086 Controls Over the Contractor Common Access Card Life Cycle in the Republic of Korea, June 9, 2009

Department of Homeland Security
Refugees and Asylees: 2008

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
OIG-08-87 - Evaluation of DHS' Security Program and Practices For Its Intelligence Systems for Fiscal Year 2008
OIG-09-66 - DHS' Progress in Addressing Technical Security Challenges at Washington Dulles International Airport (Redacted)

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA)
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Update
Department of Homeland Security PRISM
Vessel Requirements for Notices of Arrival and Departure and Automatic Identification System to add the Notice of Arrival on the Outer Continental Shelf Update

Enough Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Sudan's Election Paradox

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
From the Prisoners to the People: America’s Human Rights Policy toward China 20 Years after Tiananmen
Ineffective, Unprofessional, and Corrupt: The Afghan National Police Challenge
Iran: Looking Ahead to Reform?

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Army Working Capital Fund: Actions Needed to Improve Budgeting for Carryover at Army Ordnance, GAO-09-415
Aviation and Climate Change: Aircraft Emissions Expected to Grow, but Technological and Operational Improvements and Government Policies Can Help Control Emissions, GAO-09-554
Biomonitoring: EPA Needs to Coordinate Its Research Strategy and Clarify Its Authority to Obtain Biomonitoring Data, GAO-09-353
Coast Guard: Administrative Law Judge Program Contains Elements Designed to Foster Judges' Independence and Mariner Protections Assessed Are Being Followed, GAO-09-489
Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs to Improve Oversight of Relocatable Facilities and Develop a Strategy for Managing Their Use Across the Military Services, GAO-09-585
Environmental Contamination: Lessons Learned from the Cleanup of Formerly Used Defense and Military Munitions Sites, GAO-09-779T [testimony]
EPA Chemical Assessments: Process Reforms Offer the Potential to Address Key Problems, GAO-09-774T [testimony]
Federal Energy and Fleet Management: Plug-in Vehicles Offer Potential Benefits, but High Costs and Limited Information Could Hinder Integration into the Federal Fleet, GAO-09-493
Nuclear and Worker Safety: Limited Information Exists on Costs and Reasons for Work Stoppages at DOE's Hanford Site, GAO-09-451
Telecommunications: Broadband Deployment Plan Should Include Performance Goals and Measures to Guide Federal Investment, GAO-09-494

Heritage Foundation
America's Air Force Is in the Fight
The American Energy Act Puts Nuclear on the Fast Track
The Confluence of Cyber Crime and Terrorism
Durban II: Lessons for U.S. Engagement with the U.N. on Human Rights
European Elections 2009: Rising Disillusionment with the EU
Iran's Sham Election: Buying Votes with Potatoes
Narco-Terrorism in Peru: The Return of Shining Path
Visa Waiver Program: A Plan to Build on Success

Hudson Institute
Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 8
o The Paradoxes of Shiism
o The Return of Political Mahdism
o The Arab Reception of Vilayat-e-Faqih
o Hezbollah's Agenda in Lebanon
o Hezbollah: A State Within a State
o The Shiite Turn in Syria
o Tashayu in Central Asia and Russia
Economic Report

Human Rights Watch
Together, Apart: Organizing around Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Worldwide

Institute for Science and International Security
IAEA report on Iran
IAEA report on Syria
ISIS Analysis of the February 19 IAEA Report on Iran
ISIS Analysis of the February 19 IAEA Report on Syria

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
04 Jun 2009: Somalia: Understanding Al-Shabaab, Paula Cristina Roque

International Energy Administration (IEA)
Innovations in National Energy Efficiency Strategies and Action Plans
Key World Energy Statistics 2008

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate Change and the Risk of Violent Conflict in the Middle East

International Relations and Security Network
Exporting Fijian Forces
Gaddafi’s Grand Plan
India's Status Quo Surprise
Iran: Ahmadinejad's Palace Coup
Mladic Machinations

Jamestown Foundation
China Brief, v. 9, no. 12, June 12, 2009
o In a Fortnight by L.C. Russell Hsiao
o Beijing Mulling Tougher Tactics Against Pyongyang by Willy Lam
o Sea of Blood, Year of Friendship: China-North Korean Relations in 2009 by John J. Tkacik, Jr. o Sri Lanka: Beijing’s Growing Foothold in the Indian Ocean by Vijay Sakhuja
o China’s SSBN Forces: Transitioning to the Next Generation by Andrew S. Erickson and Michael S. Chase
Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 16, June 12, 2009
o Al-Qaeda in Yemen Supports Southern Secession by Abdul Hameed Bakier
o Sunni Terrorists Strike Shi'a Mosque in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan Province by Bernd Kaussler o Hezbollah in Egypt: The Politics of Conspiracy and Resistance by Chris Zambelis
o Are the Afghan Taliban Using Tajikistan's Islamist Militants to Pressure Dushanbe on NATO Supply Routes? by Andrew McGregor

Law Library of Congress
Congressional Access to National Security Information: Precedents from the Washington Administration

Lexington Institute
Homeland Security Should Deploy Bio-Sensors Now
Japan & F-22: Why Not Reward a Reliable Ally?

National Academies Press (NAP)
Optimizing U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense Review of Air Force Acquisitions Programs [Free download but registration required]
Russian Views on Countering Terrorism During Eight Years of Dialogue: Extracts from Proceedings of Four Workshops [Free download but registration required]

National Security Archive
The Secrecy Court of Last Resort: New Declassification Releases by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP)

New America Foundation
Recalibrating U.S.-China

RAND
The Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia: A Net Assessment
Fast-Forward: Key Issues in Modernizing the U.S. Freight-Transportation System for Future Economic Growth
Fighter Drawdown Dynamics: Effects on Aircrew Inventories
The PLA Navy's "New Historic Missions": Expanding Capabilities for a Re-emergent Maritime Power [testimony]

Small Wars Journal
Adapting the British Light Infantry Section and Platoon Structure for the Contemporary and Future Operating Environment
Thoughts on Advising Iraqi Security Forces Using an Organized Development Approach
Winning Damaged Hearts and Minds: An Irregular Warfare Concept

Stanley Foundation
At the World’s Summit: How Will Leading Nations Lead?

Stimson Center
President Obama and a New Beginning in Cairo

Strategic Studies Institute
Arrowhead Ripper: Adaptive Leadership in Full Spectrum Operations
Strategic Decapitation and Counterinsurgency

UK Parliament
War and Peace in Sri Lanka

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Justice Interrupted: Historical Perspectives on Promoting Democracy in the Middle East
PeaceWatch June 2009

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Hizballah Campaigns at Home, Exposed Abroad
Moroccan Elections Unlikely to Upset Status Quo
Political Power and Social Conservatism in Turkey
Renewal of Allegiance: Presidential Elections in Iran
Rule of Law Is Key to Future Israel-Syria Peacemaking
The Voting Manipulation Industry in Iran

Western Forestry Leadership Coalition
The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S.

World Political Review (WPR)
Gangs and the New Insurgency in Latin America
Mexico's Drug War Turns Political
Naval Standoff Between Indonesia, Malaysia
Philippine Military Grabs Upper Hand in Mindanao
U.S.-Backed Majority Holds On to Power in Lebanon

Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Tunnels, Guns and Kimchi: North Korea’s Quest for Dollars – Part I
Tunnels, Guns and Kimchi: North Korea’s Quest for Dollars – Part II
War by Other Means: Econo-Jihad