Federal government information technology: Management, security, and congressional oversight

Information Security Oversight Office

This report provides infOlmation on the cost estimates of the security classification program as required by Executive Order 12958, as amended, "Classified National Security lnformation." [t provides statistics and analysis concellling key components of the system from 41 Executive branch agencies. It also contains cost infomlation with respect to industrial security in the private sector as re...

Identifying and Ranking Technology-Telecommunications Context of Information Security anagement System in E-Government Using Fuzzy AHP Approach

In recent years, many security threats have entered into the organizations’ information and changed the  organizational performance resulting in their exorbitant costs. This question is of particular importanceabout government agencies that use information and Internet systems. This issue enabled the top managers of organizations to implement a security system and minimize these costs. Using In...

[Government management and society: information, technology and scientific output].

The complexity of government tasks today suggests that virtual interaction processes that could streamline flows and exchanges of information between governments and society in public policymaking may contribute to more effective intervention that is more closely attuned to the heterogeneity and diversity of social problems. Innovative participatory government administration initiatives have pr...

Divided Government and Congressional Investigations

This article explores the political determinants of congressional investigatory activity. Using Mayhew’s list of high-profile probes updated through 2006, we developed five measures of the frequency and intensity of investigative oversight. Contra Mayhew, we found that divided government spurs congressional investigatory activity. A shift from unified to divided government yields a five-fold in...

Congressional Powers and Federal Judicial Burdens