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• Just Can't Wait To Get Off The Record Again: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, ...

  Published: August 23, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Background, Department Of Transportation, Journalism, Just Can T Wait To Get Off The Record Again, Nhtsa

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, while not really protecting us from collapsing bridges so much, is keeping us safe from the danger of on-the-record quotes from non-political appointees. [NYT]

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• A ‘confused’ deal

  Published: September 21, 2007, 12:28 am

  Tags: Governance, In The News, Department Of Transportation Communications, Executive Agreement, Leandro Mendoza, National Broadband Network, Philippines, Supply Contract, Zte Corporation

  of the document signed by Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza on behalf of the Philippine government in Baoa in the Chinese province of Hainan last April 21, 2007, the title reads: “Contract for the Supply of Equipment and Services for the National Broadband Network Project.” The term “contract,”

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• Homeland Security's Use of Contractors Is Questioned

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Homeland, Security S, Use, Contractors, Questioned, John Jaeger, Joseph Lieberman, Transportation Security Administration, U S Coast Guard, Bearingpoint Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Fairfax, Russ Knocke, The Pentagon, Office Of Procurement Operations, U S Department

  At the Department of Homeland Security, contract employees help write job descriptions for new headquarters workers. Private contractors also sign letters that officially offer employment. And they meet new government hires on their first day on the job.

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• Homeland Security's Use of Contractors Is Questioned

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Homeland, Security S, Use, Contractors, Questioned, John Jaeger, Joseph Lieberman, Transportation Security Administration, U S Coast Guard, Bearingpoint Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Fairfax, Russ Knocke, The Pentagon, Office Of Procurement Operations, U S Department

  At the Department of Homeland Security, contract employees help write job descriptions for new headquarters workers. Private contractors also sign letters that officially offer employment. And they meet new government hires on their first day on the job.

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• A Crash's Echoes, From War Zone to Washington

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Crash S, Echoes, From, War, Zone, Washington, Afghanistan, U S National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration, Jeannette Mcmahon, Loren Hammer, Melvin E Rowe, Farah, Peter Goelz, United States, Blackwater Usa, U S Department Of Defense, Bob Spohr

  A twin-engine cargo plane carrying three U.S. soldiers and a crew of three was weaving through the mountains of Afghanistan on a crystal-clear day in November 2004.

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• Homeland Security's Use of Contractors Is Questioned

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Homeland, Security S, Use, Contractors, Questioned, John Jaeger, Joseph Lieberman, Transportation Security Administration, U S Coast Guard, Bearingpoint Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Fairfax, Russ Knocke, The Pentagon, Office Of Procurement Operations, U S Department

  At the Department of Homeland Security, contract employees help write job descriptions for new headquarters workers. Private contractors also sign letters that officially offer employment. And they meet new government hires on their first day on the job.

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• Homeland Security's Use of Contractors Is Questioned

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Homeland, Security S, Use, Contractors, Questioned, John Jaeger, Joseph Lieberman, Transportation Security Administration, U S Coast Guard, Bearingpoint Inc, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Fairfax, Russ Knocke, The Pentagon, Office Of Procurement Operations, U S Department

  At the Department of Homeland Security, contract employees help write job descriptions for new headquarters workers. Private contractors also sign letters that officially offer employment. And they meet new government hires on their first day on the job.

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• The City Is Tired of You Getting Your Bike Seat Wet

  Published: November 14, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Intel, Biking, Brooklyn, Department Of Transportation, Long Island City

  NYC Department of TransportationBehold the city's newest benefit for bicyclists: a sleek public bike-parking shelter that will start rolling out next month. The structures are from the same company that's installing those adorable new bus stops around town. As you can see, they look very similar, except they've removed the side and rear

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• UNITED STATES: Enbridge restarts Line 3

  Published: December 4, 2007, 6:20 am

  Tags: Minnesota, Enbridge, Usa, Us Department Of Transportation

  Enbridge Inc. and Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. today report that Enbridge Energy Partners' Line 3, the line damaged in last week's accident near Clearbrook, Minnesota, was restarted at 4:35 a.m. MST December 3, 2007. The duration of the unplanned outage, combined with storage capability and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my

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• Pentagon Prepares for Layoffs in Budget Standoff

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pentagon, Prepares, For, Layoffs, Budget, Standoff, Gordon England, Transportation Security Administration, The Pentagon, Iraq, U S Department Of Defense, Gordon Adams, John Gage, Afghanistan, American Federation Of Government Employees, U S Marine Corps, Barbara Miku

  The Pentagon expects to notify Army and Navy commanders this week to begin preparing to lay off civilian employees, a Defense Department official said yesterday.

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• Pentagon Prepares for Layoffs in Budget Standoff

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pentagon, Prepares, For, Layoffs, Budget, Standoff, Gordon England, Transportation Security Administration, The Pentagon, Iraq, U S Department Of Defense, Gordon Adams, John Gage, Afghanistan, American Federation Of Government Employees, U S Marine Corps, Barbara Miku

  The Pentagon expects to notify Army and Navy commanders this week to begin preparing to lay off civilian employees, a Defense Department official said yesterday.

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• Agencies Are Reminded There's Little Elbowroom on Air Travel

  Published: January 15, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Agencies, Are, Reminded, There S, Little, Elbowroom, Air, Travel, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Financial Management Service, Transportation Security Administration, David A Lebryk, John G Perren, Judith R Tillman, U S Department Of Agriculture, U S Department Of

  Tighter travel rules for federal employees appear to be in the works.

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• Airport Security Technology Stuck In the Pipeline

  Published: February 8, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Airport, Security, Technology, Stuck, The, Pipeline, Kip Hawley, Transportation Security Administration, Smiths Detection, Texas, Bennie Thompson, General Electric Company, John Magaw, Phoenix, Smiths Group Plc, U S Department Of Homeland Security, U S Government Acco

  In the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, government officials and industry leaders talked excitedly about how they expected technology to plug many of the gaps in airport security.

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• Went back to truck driving

  Published: February 5, 2008, 8:24 pm

  Tags: Hours Of Service, Usps, Fired, D O T, Cdl, Department Of Transportation, Us Mail

  County (Maryland) Health Department for a blood test...I also got the flu...The (Unjust) transportation manager for the US Post Office that is in charge of Suburban Washington DC mail at Shady Grove Rd in Gaithersburg Maryland fired me the day before my health insurance kicked in...I'm not fired from the company I work for, I'm only fired

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• Nokia GPS Phones to Fight the Traffic Plague [Concepts]

  Published: February 9, 2008, 3:25 pm

  Tags: Berkeley Department Of Civil And Environmental Engineering, California Center For Innovative Transportation, Caltrans, Ccit, Cellphone, Cellphones, Concepts, Gps, N95, Nokia, Traffic

  Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), CalTrans, and Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The data sent back from each test car logged the vehicle's speed and location via an on board N95 handset, this information was then sent to a central control station, which in turn relayed the relevant travel alerts.

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