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9/25/08 2:30 PM Addressing Cost Growth of Major DOD Weapons Systems

9/25/08 9:30 AM Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Hard Lessons Learned From Troubled Investments

9/24/08 2:30 PM Mission Possible: FEMA’s Future Preparedness Planning

9/24/08 10:00 AM Assessing the Effectiveness of Agricultural Disaster Assistance Programs in the Wake of the 2008 Midwest Floods, Hurricane Gustav, and Hurricane Ike

9/24/08 10:00 AM Domestic Partner Benefits for Federal Employees: Fair Policy and Good Business

9/23/08 2:30 PM A Reliance on Smart Power - Reforming the Public Diplomacy Bureaucracy

9/23/08 12:00 PM Business Meeting

9/23/08 10:30 AM Reducing the Undercount in the 2010 Census

9/23/08 10:00 AM After Action: A Review of the Combined Federal, State, and Local Activities to Respond and Recover from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike

9/18/08 2:00 PM Keeping the Nation Safe through the Presidential Transition

9/11/08 2:30 PM Nominations

9/11/08 9:00 AM Dividend Tax Abuse: How Offshore Entities Dodge Taxes On U.S. Stock Dividends

9/10/08 2:30 PM Managing the Challenges of the Federal Government Transition

9/10/08 10:00 AM Expediency Versus Integrity: Do Assembly-Line Audits at the Defense Contract Audit Agency Waste Taxpayer Dollars?

9/09/08 3:15 PM Nomination

7/31/08 2:00 PM A Reliance on Smart Power - Reforming the Foreign Assistance Bureuacracy

7/31/08 1:00 PM Joint Hearing (Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery & House Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response) - Lessons Learned: Ensuring the Delivery of Donated Goods to Survivors of Catastrophes

7/31/08 9:30 AM Offline and Off-budget: The Dismal State of Information Technology Planning in the Federal Government

7/30/08 12:00 PM Planning for Post-Catastrophe Housing Needs: Has FEMA Developed an Effective Strategy for Housing Large Numbers of Citizens Displaced by Disaster?

7/30/08 10:15 AM Business Meeting

7/29/08 9:00 AM Payroll Tax Abuse: Businesses Owe Billions and What Needs To Be Done About It

7/25/08 12:00 PM Nomination

7/25/08 9:30 AM Tax Haven Banks and U. S. Tax Compliance

7/24/08 2:30 PM Improving Federal Program Management using Performance Information

7/23/08 2:30 PM Nomination

7/23/08 10:00 AM Information Sharing: Connecting the Dots at the Federal, State, and Local Levels

7/22/08 2:00 PM Improving Performance: A Review of Pay-for-Performance Systems in the Federal Government

7/22/08 9:30 AM Energy Security: An American Imperative

7/17/08 2:30 PM Major Disaster Recovery: Assessing FEMA's Performance Since Katrina

7/17/08 9:30 AM Tax Haven Banks and U. S. Tax Compliance

7/16/08 2:00 PM A Domestic Crisis with Global Implications: Reviewing the Human Capital Crisis at the State Department

7/16/08 10:00 AM The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture: Are We Building Domestic Defenses That Will Make the Nation Safer?

7/15/08 10:00 AM Nomination

7/10/08 9:30 AM The Roots of Violent Islamist Extremism and Efforts to Counter It

7/09/08 10:00 AM Medicare Vulnerabilities: Payments for Claims Tied to Deceased Doctors

7/02/08 10:00 AM Securing the Northern Border: Views from the Front Lines

6/26/08 2:30 PM In the Red: Addressing the Nation's Financial Challenges

6/26/08 10:00 AM Nuclear Terrorism: Providing Medical Care and Meeting Basic Needs in the Aftermath – the Federal Response

6/25/08 10:00 AM Business Meeting

6/24/08 10:30 AM Ending Excessive Speculation in Commodity Markets: Legislative Options

6/20/08 10:00 AM Nomination

6/19/08 2:00 PM Management Challenges Facing the Federal Protective Service: What is at Risk?

6/18/08 10:00 AM Protecting Personal Information: Is the Federal Government Doing Enough?

6/12/08 2:30 PM Addressing the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Relationship

6/06/08 2:00 PM National Security Bureaucracy for Arms Control, Counterproliferation, and Nonproliferation Part II: The Role of the Department of State

6/05/08 10:30 AM It Takes a Village: Community Preparedness

5/29/08 1:00 PM Non-Foreign COLA: Finding an Equitable Solution

5/22/08 2:30 PM Security Clearance Reform: The Way Forward

5/22/08 11:30 AM Business Meeting

5/20/08 10:30 AM Financial Speculation in Commodity Markets: Are Institutional Investors and Hedge Funds Contributing to Food and Energy Price Inflation?

5/15/08 2:00 PM National Security Bureaucracy for Arms Control, Counterproliferation, and Nonproliferation Part I: The Role of the Department of State

5/15/08 10:00 AM Nuclear Terrorism: Providing Medical Care and Meeting Basic Needs in the Aftermath

5/14/08 3:00 PM National Archives Oversight: Protecting Our Nation’s History for Future Generations

5/14/08 10:00 AM Nomination

5/08/08 4:00 PM Business Meeting

5/08/08 10:00 AM From Candiddates to Change Makers: Recruiting and Hiring the Next Generation of Federal Employees

5/07/08 10:00 AM Fuel Subsidies: Is There an Impact on Food Supply and Prices?

4/29/08 9:30 AM The Impact of Implementation: A Review of the REAL ID Act and the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

4/24/08 2:00 PM Beyond Control: Reforming Export Licensing Agencies for National Security and Economic Interests

4/24/08 9:30 AM Addressing Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

4/23/08 2:30 PM Nomination

4/17/08 2:00 PM Focus on Fusion Centers: A Progress Report

4/15/08 3:15 PM Census in Peril: Getting the 2010 Decennial Back on Track, Part II

4/15/08 10:00 AM Nuclear Terrorism: Confronting the Challenges of the Day After

4/10/08 2:00 PM Nominations

4/10/08 10:00 AM Business Meeting

4/03/08 2:00 PM Managing Diversity of Senior Leadership in the Federal Workforce and the Postal Service

4/03/08 10:00 AM The New FEMA: Is the Agency Better Prepared for a Catastrophe Now Than It Was in 2005?

4/02/08 11:00 AM Nuclear Terrorism: Assessing the Threat to the Homeland

3/14/08 10:00 AM On the Path to Great Educational Results for the District's Public Schools?

3/12/08 2:30 PM Agencies in Peril: Are We Doing Enough to Protect Federal IT and Secure Sensitive Information?

3/05/08 2:30 PM The State of the U.S. Postal Service One Year After Reform

3/05/08 9:30 AM Census in Peril: Getting the 2010 Decennial Back on Track

3/04/08 2:30 PM NSPD-54/HSPD-23 and the Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative

3/04/08 10:00 AM Is Housing Too Much To Hope For?: FEMA's Disaster Housing Strategy

2/29/08 10:00 AM Government-wide Intelligence Community Management Reforms

2/27/08 10:00 AM An Uneasy Relationship: U.S. Reliance on Private Security Firms in Overseas Operations

2/14/08 1:30 PM The Homeland Security Department’s Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2009

2/14/08 9:45 AM Building and Strengthening the Federal Acquisition Workforce

2/13/08 10:00 AM The Defense Department’s Homeland Security Role: How the Military Can and Should Contribute

1/31/08 2:30 PM Eliminating Agency Payment Errors

1/24/08 2:30 PM Management and Oversight of Contingency Contracting in Hostile Zones

1/24/08 10:00 AM United Nations Development Program: A Case Study Of North Korea

12/19/07 9:30 AM CANCELLED Business Meeting

12/18/07 3:30 PM Nomination

12/13/07 2:00 PM POSTPONED -- RESCHEDULED 1-24-08 United Nations Development Program Operations in North Korea

12/13/07 10:00 AM Prioritizing Management: Implementing Chief Management Officers at Federal Agencies

12/12/07 10:00 AM Nominations

12/11/07 10:00 AM E-Government 2.0: Improving Innovation, Collaboration, and Access

12/11/07 10:00 AM Speculation In the Crude Oil Market

12/04/07 2:30 PM The New Madrid Seismic Zone: Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

12/04/07 9:30 AM Credit Card Practices: Unfair Interest Rate Increases

12/03/07 2:00 PM Host Communities: Analyzing the Role and Needs of Communities that Take in Disaster Evacuees in the Wake of Major Disasters and Catastrophes

11/15/07 2:30 PM * * POSTPONED - RESCHEDULED 12-11-07 * * Speculation In The Crude Oil Market

11/15/07 10:00 AM Not a Matter of "If", But of "When": The Status of U.S. Response Following an RDD Attack

11/14/07 3:30 PM Medicaid Providers That Cheat on Their Taxes and What Can Be Done About It

11/14/07 10:00 AM Business Meeting

11/13/07 10:00 AM Human Capital Needs of the U.S. Customs and Borders Protection

11/09/07 9:00 AM Nominations

11/01/07 2:00 PM Small Business Administration: Is the 7(a) Program Acheiving Measurable Outcomes

10/31/07 2:30 PM Post-Catastrophe Crisis: Addressing the Dramatic Need and Scant Availability of Mental Health Care in the Gulf Coast

10/30/07 9:30 AM The Role of Local Law Enforcement in Countering Violent Islamist Extremism

10/25/07 2:30 PM Single Audits: Are They Helping to Safeguard Federal Funds

10/24/07 10:00 AM Watching the Watch List: Building an Effective Terrorist Screening System

10/23/07 10:00 AM Six Years After Anthrax: Are We Better Prepared to Respond to Bioterrorism?

10/18/07 3:00 PM Nomination

10/18/07 10:00 AM The Perils of Politics in Government: A Review of the Scope and Enforcement of the Hatch Act

10/17/07 10:30 AM Is DHS Too Dependent on Contractors to Do the Government’s Work?

10/16/07 3:15 PM Improving Financial and Business Management at the Department of Defense (DOD)

10/16/07 10:00 AM One Year Later: A Progress Report on the SAFE Port Act

10/11/07 9:00 AM The State and Federal Response to Storm Damage and Erosion in Alaska’s Coastal Villages

10/04/07 2:30 PM Forestalling the Coming Pandemic: Infectious Disease Surveillance Overseas

10/03/07 2:30 PM Pandemic Influenza: State and Local Efforts to Prepare

10/02/07 10:00 AM Preparing the National Capital Region for a Pandemic

9/28/07 10:00 AM The Role of Federal Executive Boards in Pandemic Preparedness

9/27/07 3:30 PM Cost Effective Airlift in the 21st Century

9/26/07 10:00 AM Business Meeting

9/20/07 2:30 PM High Risk IT: Is Poor Management Leading to Billions in Waste?

9/12/07 10:00 AM Nomination

9/10/07 9:30 AM Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland: Six Years After 9/11

9/06/07 1:30 PM A DHS Status Report: Assessing Challenges and Measuring Progress

8/02/07 10:00 AM Service Standards at the Postal Service: Are Customers Getting What They Paid For?”

8/01/07 2:30 PM Building a Stronger American Diplomatic Presence

8/01/07 10:00 AM Business Meeting

7/31/07 10:00 AM ***POSTPONED*** A DHS Status Report: Measuring Progress and Confronting New Threats

7/25/07 3:00 PM Views from the Postal Workforce on Implementing Postal Reform

7/25/07 10:00 AM Nomination

7/24/07 10:00 AM Nomination

7/19/07 2:30 PM Great Expectations: Assessments, Assurances, and Accountability in the Mayor’s Proposal to Reform the District of Columbia’s Public School System

7/19/07 10:30 AM The Military’s Role in Disaster Response: Progress Since Hurricane Katrina

7/17/07 2:30 PM Preparations for 2010: Is the Census Bureau Ready for the Job Ahead?

7/17/07 10:00 AM Federal Acquisition: Ways to Strengthen Competition and Accountability

7/12/07 2:00 PM Private Sector Preparedness, Part II: Protecting Our Critical Infrastructure

7/12/07 9:00 AM Dirty Bomb Vulnerabilities: Fake Companies, Fake Licenses, Real Consequences

7/11/07 10:00 AM Strengthening the Unique Role of the Nation’s Inspectors General

7/10/07 2:30 PM From Warehouse to Warfighter: an Update on Supply Chain Management at DoD

7/10/07 10:00 AM FEMA's Project Worksheets: Addressing a Prominent Obstacle to Gulf Coast Rebuilding

7/09/07 2:30 PM Excessive Speculation In The Natural Gas Market (Day Two)

6/28/07 3:00 PM Financial Management Systems Modernization at the Department of Homeland Security: Are Missed Opportunities Costing Us Money?

6/27/07 11:30 AM Violent Islamist Extremism: The European Experience

6/25/07 11:00 AM Excessive Speculation In The Natural Gas Market (Day One)

6/21/07 2:00 PM Private Sector Preparedness Part I- Defining the Problem and Proposing Solutions

6/19/07 9:30 AM The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Federal Government: A Model Public-Private Partnership Accelerating Research Toward a Cure

6/13/07 10:00 AM Business Meeting

6/12/07 2:30 PM Assessing Telework Policies and Initiatives in the Federal Government

6/07/07 2:30 PM DHS's Acquisition Organization: Who is Really in Charge?

6/05/07 9:00 AM Executive Stock Options: Should the IRS and Stockholders Be Given Different Information?

5/24/07 3:00 PM The Road Home? An Examination of the Goals, Costs, Management and Impediments Facing Louisiana’s Road Home Program

5/24/07 10:00 AM Federal Real Property: Real Waste in Need of Real Reform

5/22/07 3:00 PM Implementing FEMA Reform: Are We Prepared for the 2007 Hurricane Season?

5/22/07 10:00 AM GAO Personnel Reform: Does It Meet Expectations?

5/21/07 5:30 PM Business Meeting

5/18/07 10:30 AM Up, Up, and Away! Growth Trends in Health Care Premiums for Active and Retired Federal Employees

5/17/07 9:30 AM Evaluating the Progress and Identifying Obstacles in Improving the Federal Government's Security Clearance Process

5/15/07 10:00 AM Equal Representation in Congress: Providing Voting Rights to the District of Columbia

5/10/07 2:30 PM Violent Islamist Extremism: Government Efforts to Defeat It

5/10/07 9:00 AM Managing the Department of Homeland Security: A Status Report on Reform Efforts by the Under Secretary for Management

5/03/07 10:00 AM The Internet: A Portal to Violent Islamist Extremism

5/01/07 9:30 AM Nomination

4/30/07 2:30 PM The Federal Government's Role in Empowering Americans to Make Informed Financial Decisions

4/24/07 2:30 PM Transit Benefits: How Some Federal Employees Are Taking Uncle Sam For A Ride

4/24/07 9:30 AM Beyond Trailers, Part I: Creating a More Flexible, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Federal Disaster Housing Program

4/23/07 2:30 PM Security on America's College Campuses

4/19/07 2:00 PM The Road Ahead: Implementing Postal Reform

4/19/07 9:00 AM Dangerous Exposure: The Impact of Global Warming on Private and Federal Insurance

4/18/07 11:00 AM Business Meeting

4/12/07 2:00 PM GAO’s Analysis of the Gulf Coast Recovery: A Dialogue on Removing Obstacles to the Recovery Effort

3/29/07 10:00 AM Eliminating and Recovering Improper Payments

3/26/07 2:30 PM Understanding the Realities of REAL ID: A Review of Efforts to Secure Drivers' Licenses and Identification Cards

3/22/07 2:30 PM Safeguarding the Merit System Principles: A Review of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel

3/22/07 10:00 AM Deconstructing Reconstruction: Problems, Challenges, and the Way Forward in Iraq and Afghanistan

3/21/07 9:30 AM GAO’s Role in Supporting Congressional Oversight: An Overview of Past Work and Future Challenges and Opportunities

3/20/07 2:30 PM Medicare Doctors Who Cheat On Their Taxes And What Should Be Done About It

3/15/07 10:00 AM Nomination

3/14/07 9:30 AM The Threat of Islamic Radicalism to the Homeland

3/13/07 2:30 PM A Review of U.S. International Efforts to Secure Radiological Materials

3/07/07 10:00 AM Credit Card Practices: Fees, Interest Rates, and Grace Periods

3/05/07 2:30 PM A Review of the Transportation Security Administration Personnel

3/01/07 3:00 PM Improving Federal Financial Management: Progress Made and the Challenges Ahead

2/15/07 9:00 AM Business Meeting

2/13/07 10:00 AM The Homeland Security Department’s Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2008

2/01/07 2:30 PM Private Health Records: Privacy Implications of the Federal Government's Health Information Technology Initiative

1/29/07 9:00 AM Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Outstanding Need, Slow Progress

1/25/07 2:30 PM Lost in Translation: A Review of the Federal Government's Efforts to Develop a Foreign Language Strategy

1/24/07 10:00 AM Business Meeting

1/09/07 9:30 AM Ensuring Full Implementation of the 9/11 Commission’s Recommendations

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