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The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is promulgating this direct final rule for its National Motor Vehicle Title Information System Program (NMVTIS) in order to make two technical corrections to the NMVTIS regulations.
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CHESAPEAKE, Va., Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Roads Consulting has been selected by the West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) to develop, deploy, and host West Virginia's first statewide 511 traveler information system. The West Virginia 511 (WV511) system will help reduce congestion and increase mobility and safety by providing travelers with real-time traffic and road condition information on all major corridors across the state. The 511 technology solution will include a condition reporting system, Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) telephony system, traveler information website, and data archive management system. To assist with delivery and marketing of the new 511 system, the Open Roads' team includes LogicTree Corporation and Global-5 Communications. The system is sche...
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DoD, GSA, and NASA have adopted as final, with changes, an interim rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement a section of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010. This section requires that the information in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), excluding past performance reviews, shall be made publicly available. The interim rule notified contractors of this new statutory requirement for public access to FAPIIS.
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This notice announces that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has forwarded the new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. TSA published a Federal Register notice, with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments, of the following collection of information on January 6, 2011 (76 FR 792). The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden for the TSA Exercise Information System (EXIS). EXIS is a web portal designed to serve stakeholders in the transportation industry by providing transportation stakeholders with an online tool to generat...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing an alteration to an existing System of Records (System) titled ``Bioresearch Monitoring Information System, HHS/FDA'' (System No. 09- 10-0010). Among other updates, this alteration adds new routine uses for disclosures of certain relevant information to Agencies, authorities, and organizations with responsibilities related to clinical investigations and/or clinical investigators; persons who require access to records to perform services for FDA; and individual research subjects.
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Students are presented with a business scenario in which they need to have a new information system installed for a small company where a recent graduate has just started working. Students are asked to review the scenario, create an organizational overview to be used as part of a Request for Information (RFI), create a functionality list for a new information system, create an internal memo to justify the expenditure on the new system, and outline what the possible responses to a Request for Proposals (RFP) might be. Included in the instructor's note are guidelines for the use of RFIs and RFPs, complete directions for an assignment, and a completed response. Graduates in the Information Systems area or with MBAs are expected to have an immediate impact on their new company. Although aim...
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EPA is announcing that Versar, Inc., an EPA contractor for external scientific peer review, will convene an independent panel of experts and organize and conduct an external peer review meeting to review the draft human health assessment titled, ``Toxicological Review of 1,4-Dioxane: In Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)'' [EPA/635/R-11/003]. The draft assessment was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) within the EPA Office of Research and Development. EPA is releasing this draft assessment for the purposes of public comment and peer review. This draft assessment is not final as described in EPA's information quality guidelines, and it does not represent and should not be construed to represent Agency policy or...