Documents in the News

The Ohio Board of Regents just announced the release of OhioLINK’s 2007 Snapshot annual report in a press release to Ohio media. The release follows below and will be archived online soon at http://regents.ohio.gov/news/index.php.

The new Snapshot is a departure from previous versions as it focuses more on how OhioLINK delivers cost-effective, increased access to information resources, supports quality teaching and learning and enables world-class research, and less on the volume of information we provide. A PDF copy of the 2007 Snapshot is available at http://www.ohiolink.edu/about/publications.html.

A copy of the redacted version of the report that DOD decided not to release is available–Iraqi Perspectives Project Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents:

Volume 1 (Redacted)

http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report_V1.pdf

The related article “Report Shows No Link Between Saddam and al Qaeda is available

http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2008/03/report-shows-no.html

The latest quarterly report on “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” has been released. This report can be found on the Iraq Reports page of the Department of Defense. 

http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/index.html 

According to the press release, “The latest quarterly report on the situation in Iraq notes continued security improvements and limited but important political, economic and diplomatic progress that must expand to preserve fragile security gains.”  It also notes that violence is down ….” Deaths from ethno-sectarian violence are down 90 percent, and civilian and coalition deaths by more than 70 percent since the June report.

The 2010 Census is at serious risk of massive cost increases and delays caused by problems with a contract to develop handheld computers that the Census Bureau plans to use to collect data.

Because of the problems, costs for the decennial census could increase by between $600 million to $2 billion, according to testimony given by the Government Accountability Office Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The increase would be on top of the $11.8 billion the bureau estimates the census will

cost.

GAO Report: Significant Problems of Critical Automation Program Contribute to Risks Facing 2010 Census

Based FY2000 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1202) DoD is required to submit a report “…on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China. The report shall address the current and probable future course of military-technological development on the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probable development of Chinese grand strategy, security strategy, and military strategy, and of the military organizations and operational concepts, through the next 20 years.”

The 2008 report is available at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf

Previous reports can be found at http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/China_Military_Report_08.pdf