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In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Proposed Collection: Title: Public Health Service (PHS) Post-award Reporting Requirements. Type of Information Collection Request: Revision. This collection represents a consolidation of post-award reporting requirements under the PRA, and includes the new Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR). Need and Use of Information Collection: The RPPR will replace existing interim performance reports used by all NIH, Foo...
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Significant Progress Achieved But Hard Work Lies Ahead; Symposium Features Bill Gates, Rajiv Shah and Tom Vilsack as Keynotes Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Significant U.S. achievements since 2008 lay a solid foundation to accomplish global food security objectives, according to the conclusions of a report assessing U.S. government progress to alleviate global hunger through agricultural development. The report states that continued, long-term American support for agricultural development is an opportunity for the U.S. to provide international leadership in the reduction of global poverty.
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In April 2010, the Obama Administration announced a comprehensive export control reform effort. The goal of the reforms was to modernize the export co...
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In April 2010, the Obama Administration announced a comprehensive export control reform effort. The goal of the reforms was to modernize the export co...
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In my last column, I outlined the boundaries of TEI's Vision 20/20 Task Force, which was chartered by the Institute's Board of Directors to define the...
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Just a decade ago, most insurance professionals were not familiar with the term enterprise risk management (ERM). But over the past five or six years, ERM has gone from a concept to an accepted management principle. And while ERM has advanced on many fronts, there is still much work remaining to bring the concept to its full potential. Banks were the first industry segment to receive the attention of the rating agencies, as they began to check on whether there was any connection between ERM programs and the credit worthiness of the hank in question. Moody's Investors Service, Fitch Rating, and AM Best all began incorporating new ERM standards within their analysis of insurers/reinsurers; however, it was Standard & Poor's (S&P) that was the most forthright with it ERM methodology...
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U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS HOLDS A HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE WAR AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
SPEAKE...
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This notice announces the availability of EPA's progress report in meeting its performance measures and goals for pesticide reregistration during fiscal year 2011.
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A year after several companies won awards from the Colorado Cleantech Industry Association, we caught up with them to see what progress they've made a...
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[...] there is a veritable alphabet soup of acronyms for state and federal agencies to which the city can and will apply for financial help with the site-clearing process, said Thomas Haberlin, the city's current and former director of Economic Development, who has had the Uniroyal site on his to-do list for most of his career in public service. The game plan has a number of components, he said, from bringing greater vibrancy downtown through new residential development and efforts to find new uses for idle retail spaces and municipal buildings to creating more industrial park space--and new jobs--through the sale of property adjacent to the air reserve space and not far from the Mass.