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NEW Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) Board of Director meeting minutes, 2006-2012 - [PDF 8.9 MB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) policy and statistics for merchandising and selling tobacco products in Exchange facilities, 2012 - [PDF 762 KB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW Army Audit Agency (AAA) Annual Performance Report, 2013 - [PDF 5.5 MB 17-Aug-2015]

NEW 11 Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Inspector General (OIG) Audit Reports, 2011-2014 - [PDF 5.6 MB 17-Aug-2015]

UPDATED Three Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) After Action Reports, 1999-2001 - [PDF 3.5 MB 17-Aug-2015]

NEW Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of Public Affairs Style Guide, 2001 - [PDF 400 KB 17-Aug-2015]

NEW List of National Science Foundation (NSF) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2014 - [PDF 770 KB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW List of National Science Foundation (NSF) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2013 - [PDF 762 KB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW List of National Science Foundation (NSF) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2012 - [PDF 695 KB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW Written responses or letters from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to a Congressional Committee (not a congressional office or Committee Chair) 2012-2013 - [PDF 1 MB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW List of Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2013 - [PDF 252 KB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Summaries of Recent Inspector General (OIG) Investigations, 2011-2014 - [PDF 2.4 MB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW Memos from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Deputy General Manager of Administration and DGMA/CFO to the General Manager and CEO of WMATA that originated or dated between January 1 and February 27, 2015 - [PDF 3 MB 10-Aug-2015]

NEW Each response to a Question for the Record (QFR) provided to Congress by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 2010 - [PDF 660 KB 03-Aug-2015]

NEW Five selected internal administrative periodic progress reports submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), 2012-2013 - [PDF 3.8 MB 03-Aug-2015]

NEW Five interim reports from the University of Wisconsin Madison on grant PR5014112:9361, for “Investigation of Cellulose Nitrate Motion Picture Film Chemical Decomposition and Associated Fire Risk,” 2012-2014 - [PDF 4.5 MB 03-Aug-2015]

NEW Email and memos re: the decision to remove from the Department of Labor (DOL) web site the information on proposed rulemaking on Child Labor relating to agricultural and nonagricultural employment, 2012 - [PDF 720 KB 03-Aug-2015]

NEW FOIA Logs for Department of Labor (DOL) Office of the Secretary 2005-2007 - [03-Aug-2015]
    PDF version [PDF 175 KB 03-Aug-2015]
    Excel version [XLSX 464 KB 03-Aug-2015]

NEW Statement of Work for pesticide study undertaken by Doane Marketing Research Inc., St. Louis, Missouri for the US Geological Survey (USGS) under contract ING13PX00046, 2013 - [PDF 150 KB 03-Aug-2015]

NEW Completed Audiovisual Authorization Requests, form DI-551, in the US Geological Survey (USGS) Office of Communications, 2013-2014 - [PDF 2.4 MB 03-Aug-2015]

NEW Each response to a Question for the Record (QFR) provided to Congress by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 2014 - [PDF 4.4 MB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW List of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2014 - [PDF 310 KB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW List of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2013 - [PDF 435 KB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW Written responses or letters from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to a Congressional Committee (not a congressional office or Committee Chair) 2010-2012 - [PDF 2.8 MB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW List of Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) Guidelines, 2008 - [PDF 302 KB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW List of Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2014 - [PDF 111 KB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW List of Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2012 - [PDF 4.6 MB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Executive Secretariat Style Guide, 2011 - [PDF 624 KB 27-Jul-2015]

NEW List of Small Business Administration (SBA) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2014 - [PDF 139 KB 20-Jul-2015]

NEW List of Small Business Administration (SBA) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2012 - [PDF 2.5 MB 20-Jul-2015]

NEW Letters, memos, reports and investigation results concerning a complaint re: the disclosure of a unredacted copy of the following document in late 2007 or early 2008: “SBA's Oversight of Business Loan Center,” LLC Report Number: 7-28, Issued: July 11, 2007 - [PDF 1.6 MB 20-Jul-2015]

NEW Audit or investigative records re: actions taken by the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) in response to “apparent fraud likelihood” problems described in the February 21, 2012 Bloomberg article, “Wealthy Enriched by Double-Dipping in Disadvantaged Plan” - [PDF 1.6 MB 20-Jul-2015]

NEW Records indicating the impact of federal budget sequestration upon Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations and functions, 2013 - [PDF 2 MB 20-Jul-2015]

NEW List of Department of Transportation (DOT) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2013 - [PDF 2.3 MB 20-Jul-2015]

NEW Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General (OIG) report: Contracting Practices of the Defense Security Service for Personnel Security Investigations, 2003 - [PDF 2.7 MB 20-Jul-2015]

NEW Quarterly Summaries of Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations, 2011-2014 - [PDF 2.7 MB 13-Jul-2015]

NEW List of all investigative cases closed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Inspector General (OIG), CY 2012 - [PDF 150 KB 13-Jul-2015]

NEW Final reporting documents for fifteen (15) investigations conducted by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), 2006-2013 - [PDF 1.7 MB 13-Jul-2015]

NEW Office of Personnel Management (OPM) style manual: “Good Writer's Guide” 1993 - [PDF 2 MB 13-Jul-2015]

NEW FOIA Logs for Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), 2012-2015 - [PDF 490 KB 13-Jul-2015]

NEW Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) computer-generated bibliography from the Technical Report database where the Corporate Author is the Central Intelligence Agency and report date precedes 2000, 2014 - [PDF 2 MB 13-Jul-2015]

NEW Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) computer-generated bibliography from the Technical Report database, subject terms: High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program or HAARP, 2014 - [PDF 1.3 MB 13-Jul-2015]

NEW Department of Defense (DoD) report: Annual Industrial Capabilities Report to Congress, October 2013 - [PDF 2 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) history: The SIGINT Satellite Story, 1994 - [PDF 9.4 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW Army and Air Force Exchange Service (Exchange [or AAFES]) Board meeting minutes, 2009-2012 - [PDF 3 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) study: Future of VTOL Aviation (FVA) Study, 2010 - [PDF 2 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW Closing documents associated with ten specified United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) Inspector General (OIG) investigations, 2010-2014 - [PDF 4.3 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Correspondence with Congress, 2013 - [PDF 7.5 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB) Congressional Correspondence Log, 2010-2012 - [PDF 4.4 MB 06-Jul-2015]

UPDATED The first five pages of closing documents associated with each Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) investigations closed during CY 2014 (to date) - [PDF 8.4 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW The North American Petroleum Renaissance Study produced by the Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. (EPRINC) for the Office of Net Assessment, 2014 - [PDF 7 MB 06-Jul-2015]

NEW Each response to a Question for the Record (QFR) provided to Congress by the Department of the Interior (DOI), 2014 - [PDF 5.8 MB 22-Jun-2015]

NEW Two Department of Defense (DoD) reports to Congress re: the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP), 2013 - [PDF 19.4 MB 22-Jun-2015]

NEW List of Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2014 - [PDF 4.4 MB 22-Jun-2015]

NEW List of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Inspector General (OIG) investigations closed during CY 2014 - [PDF 940 KB 22-Jun-2015]

NEW Two National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Inspections reports, 2013 - [PDF 2 MB 22-Jun-2015]

NEW Department of Energy (DOE) Inspector General (OIG) Weekly Activity Reports 2014 - [PDF 3 MB 22-Jun-2015]

NEW List of theses and dissertations produced by students of the Joint Military Intelligence College (JMIC), 2004-2010 - [PDF 4.4 MB 22-Jun-2015]

 

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