Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Executive Order (E.O.) 13,392 mandates that each federal agency shall have a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) working plan with established goals and time frames to accomplish the use of technology to improve the entire FOIA process. The E.O. outlines specific areas of the FOIA process that can be improved. The quantified data that each agency produces is used to compile the Annual Report. This is the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) plan.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The IDA4D and AMIE data assimilation methods are currently of limited use for real-time space weather applications because either they don't run in real-time (IDA4D) or the real-time version (AMIE) does not ingest the full complement of data needed to provide high fidelity outputs. To correct this situation, in Phase-I, we propose to demonstrate the feasibility of augmenting these algorithms so that they run in real-time, with the full complement of available data for ingestion. In Phase-I we will establish detailed system performance requirements and conceptual designs that will drive the development efforts to be performed in Phase-II. This will include constraints such as the size and resource expectations for the codes, as well as the necessary interfaces and resources for the collection and storage of data sets to be used in the assimilation, and how to respond to missing or corrupted data. An assessment of costs to build a real-time assimilative modeling capability using IDA4D and AMIE, and the cost to maintain and upgrade in the future will also be provided. The research conducted in phase-i will show a clear path towards a phase II prototype demonstration. In future Phase-II work, ASTRA will implement the augmentation of the existing IDA4D and AMIE algorithms to real-time operations, based on the conceptual designs and requirements established in Phase-I. Each requirement will be associated with a method of verification to be implemented in Phase II. The resulting data assimilative algorithms will be transferred to NASA, where they will be transformative for space weather operations. This innovation will enable the development of near real-time data-assimilative models and tools, for both solar quiet and active times, which allow for precise specification and forecasts of the space environment, beginning with solar eruptions and propagation, and including ionospheric electron density specification.
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The data in this system is used by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)'s Office of Investigations at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to track Investigations cases.
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Photo Gallery Photos taken by the Office of Personnel Management of OPM's events and activities.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Backlog Reduction Goals for Fiscal Years (FY) 2008, 2009, and 2010
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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This data is copied from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) Annual Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Report. The data covers the number of pending requests, requests received, requests processed, and backlog goals.
Ultrasensitive Analyzer for Realtime, In-Situ Airborne and Terrestrial Measurements of OCS, CO2, and CO Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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In this Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) effort, Los Gatos Research (LGR) proposes to employ its patented mid-infrared Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy (Off-Axis ICOS) technique to develop a compact OCS, CO2, and CO analyzer. This sensor will provide rapid (up to 10 Hz), real-time, highly accurate (OCS, CO2, and CO to better than plus or minus 20 pptv, plus or minus 0.2 ppmv, and plus or minus 5 ppbv respectively, 1 sigma at 1 Hz) measurements of these important trace gas
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The NAMMA ATD Lightning data provided by the UK Meterological Office from multiple outstations contains lightning stroke data, latitude and longitude, accuracy and weighting for fading-in flashes for lightning for the African Coast during the NAMMA experiment. Time is determined by the Arrival Time Difference (ATD) of the reporting stations.
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) internal tracking system for requests to post changes to the agency's intranet site
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Under the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, Federal Inspectors General are required to submit Semiannual Reports to Congress describing the offices' activities and accomplishments during that reporting period. The agency is required to prepare a "Management Response" to each Semiannual Report. These are the Semiannual Reports.
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Other agencies make payments to programs of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), including employee benefit programs and the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) program. In order to assist OPM and its auditors, we've established agreed upon procedures (AUP) for the other agencies Inspectors General (IGs) or designated auditors to perform, and report the results to OPM. We also provide a list of CFC campaigns and contacts.
Published By U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior
Issued almost 10 years ago
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This data set includes arcs, polygons, and polygon labels for geologic and petroleum provinces interpreted and designated by R.M. Pollastro based on numerous literature and map resources.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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High peak power short pulsed lasers have been considered to be an enabling technology to build high power transmitters for future deep space high rate space communications. However, to achieve a high peak power at a high repetition rate over 100 MHz and with a short pulse width and >25% wall plug efficiency still remains an issue unsolved. PolarOnyx proposes a novel approach targeting to make 10 MHz to over 100 MHz high repetition rate high power fiber laser at 1550 nm and resolve the issues of modulation induced chirp, pulse distortion and nonlinear effects by using COTS components and employing our proprietary technologies in specialty fibers, spectral shaping and pulse shaping techniques. Space qualification will also be addressed in laying out the pathway towards space deployment. A tabletop demonstration will be carried out at the end of Phase 1. A prototype will be delivered at the end of Phase II.
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Blog posts by the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Published By National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Issued almost 10 years ago
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NPScape CCAP landcover (CCAP_LAC - 1996, 2001 and 2006) and landcover change (CCAP_LCC) products. Landcover change is produced from the 1996-2001 NOAA C-CAP and 2001-2006 NOAA C-CAP landcover change data.
Published By Office of Personnel Management
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is an independent office within the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) dedicated to promoting accountability and transparency both within and outside of the agency. Its mission is to provide independent and objective oversight of OPM services and programs by conducting audits, investigations, and evaluations. The OIG provides recommendations to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of OPM's operations. This data asset consists of independent, comprehensive peer review of the OIG's audit and investigative operations conducted every three years.
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The 1995 American Travel Survey (ATS) was conducted by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to obtain information about the long-distance travel of persons living in the United States. The survey collected quarterly information related to the characteristics of persons, households, and trips of 100 miles or more for approximately 80,000 American households.The ATS data provide detailed information on state-to-state travel as well as travel to and from metropolitan areas by mode of transportation. Data are also available for subgroups defined in terms of characteristics related to travel, such as trip purpose, age, family type, income, and a variety of related characteristics. The data can be analyzed at the regional, state, metropolitan area, and county level.NOTE: In 2001, the National Household Travel Survey was carried out. This new survey is a combined Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) and ATS.
Radiation Hardened Structured ASIC Platform for Rapid Chip Development for Very High Speed System on a Chip (SoC) and Complex Digital Logic Systems Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Radiation Hardened Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) provide for the highest performance, lowest power and size for Space Missions. In order to dramatically reduce the development cycle and reduce the cost to tapeout Rad Hard ASICs, we propose a Structured ASIC approach. In this approach we fix an array of complex logic cells and provide a fixed Area Array for I/O pads supporting in excess of 400 CMOS GPIO pins. In addition, we fix the power grid and the pins associated with power (core and I/O) and ground. Thus, we require only routing in a subset of the metal layers in order to configure the Structured ASIC to a specific design. This leads to substantial reduction in design and verification time to tapeout, and results in reduced cost by requiring a subset of Mask changes per design. In this work, we will build on existing 90nm Silicon proven Radiation Hardened Structured ASIC platform and develop a Structured ASIC platform at the 45nm SOI technology node with the objective to increase the clock speeds to hundreds of MHz with SEU mitigation in sequential logic. We will also use High Density Interconnect (HDI) for packaging the Die in BGA and LGA packages. The HDI design does not change for each configuration of the Structured ASIC so that the same benefits of Structured ASIC are extended to packaging the part with high pinout and high speed I/O requirements eliminating layout design costs.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Acoustic Shear Stress Sensor for Flight Research Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The capacity of coherent Lidar systems to produce a continuous, real-time, 3D scan of wind velocities via detection of backscatter of atmospheric aerosols in clear-air conditions gives this technology a clear advantage over other technologies. LIDAR has proven its value in a number of applications, including the detection of clear-air turbulence, wind shear, and aircraft wake vortices. Of interest under this NASA sub-topic is the development of Lidar systems capable of detecting and measuring aircraft wake vortices in order to enhance aircraft separation criteria. To perform this task well a Lidar must have certain characteristics and be paired with a highly optimized wake processing algorithm. Key areas of development include: - Pulse energy / pulse repetition frequency (PRF) combination to adequately sample a region of space containing the wake vortices. - Pulse width for optimally sampling the wake disturbance. Determination of the optimal range resolution for measuring wakes is algorithm dependent and is an area of current research. - Scanner capable of efficiently scanning the region of interest. The scanner needs to be able to report the elevation and azimuth accurately so that wake positions can be estimated. - Raw data acquisition and signal processing for generating range resolved Doppler spectral estimates. Processing should produce periodograms over the 2D or 3D region of interest with adequate frequency resolution, velocity bandwidth and with minimal distortion. - Wake vortex algorithm for detecting, tracking and estimating the circulation strength and position of the vortices from the Doppler spectral estimates. SIBELLOPTICS proposes a Phase 1 SBIR to determine the feasibility of its compact, innovative fiber LIDAR sensor, now in Phase II development, to detect and measure wake vortices using spatially dependent spectral matched filter algorithms similar to those currently being developed for NASA by Coherent Research Group.
A Compact Safe Cold-Start (CS2) System for Scramjets using Dilute Triethylaluminum Fuel Mixtures Project
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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This proposal addresses the cold-start requirements of scramjet engines by developing a safe, energy-dense, and low volume hydrocarbon fuel conditioning system based on the hydrolysis reaction of water with triethylaluminum (TEA). TEA is an organometallic liquid that reacts exothermically with water and burns readily in air when not diluted in hydrocarbon mixtures. We propose to use the hydrolysis of nonpyrophoric dilute TEA/JP fuel mixtures in an integrated mixing/injection apparatus to heat and vaporize liquid hydrocarbon fuel to enable cold-start capability in regeneratively cooled scramjets. In addition, the hydrolysis reaction also produces ethane gas, which serves the dual purpose of atomizing any remaining liquid by effervescence as well as producing an ethane-rich injectant that is more readily ignitable than the vaporized JP fuel. Furthermore, since TEA is pyrophoric, any remaining TEA in the mixture could serve as an ignition aid once it comes in contact with air. Hence, through a straightforward hydrolysis mechanism, the proposed system would preheat and vaporize the fuel, atomize any remaining liquid through effervescence, add readily ignitable ethane to the mixture, and provide a potential ignition source with any TEA leftover from the hydrolysis reaction. The proposed Phase 1 and 2 research will result in the Compact Safe Cold-Start (CS2) system which will be a key enabling technology for future operational hypersonic vehicles.
Published By U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Issued almost 10 years ago
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Descriptive, longitudinal study including direct assessments, classroom observation, parent and teacher interviews, for a nationally represenative sample of Head Start Children
Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued almost 10 years ago
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198586 project in southeastern Georgia was conducted in an effort tostudy the effectiveness of several methods of applying a sardine baitstation techniquefor indexing black bears Ursus americanus. A total of 120 stations were setout in 20 lOOha experimental replicates during each of 3 months May, July, andNovember with random sampling of equal numbers of stations according to methodof hanging baits hanging or nailing as well as equal numbers of stations beingchecked after 4, 8, and 12 days. Chisquare analysis indicated that a bear visit to abaitstation was not dependent on method of presentation. Overall visitation rateswere proportionally higher though not statistically different for stations checked after8 and 12 days than for stations checked after 4 days. Analysis by month sampledindicated significantly more bear visits during May than during July or November. Objective of this project was to study the effectiveness of different methods of applying sarding baitstation technique for indexing black bears.
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The Traffic Volume Trends montly report is a natinal data report that provides quality controlled vehicle miles traveled data for each State for all roadways
Published By Department of Transportation
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The Air Carrier Statistics database, also known as the T-100 data bank, contains domestic and international airline market and segment data. certificated U.S. air carriers report monthly air carrier traffic information using Form T-100. Foreign carriers having at least one point of service in the United States or one of its territories report monthly air carrier traffic information using Form T-100(f). The data is collected by the Office of Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Issued almost 10 years ago
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The DC-8 Dropsonde System (D8D) uses dropwinsonde and Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to measure the atmospheric state parameters (temp, humidity, windspeed/direction pressure) and location in 3 dimensional space during the sonde's descent once each half second. Measurements are transmitted to the aircraft from the time of release until impact with the ocean's surface.