Executive Summary Audit of the Handling of Firearms Purchase Denials Through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, September 2016 [66 Pages, 4.3MB] The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is used by Federal Firearms Licensees, importers, and manufacturers (collectively, “dealers”) to determine whether a prospective purchaser is legally prohibited from doing so. The process begins when the person provides a dealer with photo identification and a completed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Form 4473. The form asks questions corresponding to the categories of persons prohibited by federal law from possessing firearms. Providing false information is…
Author: John Greenewald
Download the Report Ship Naming in the United States Navy, Published 2013 [76 Pages, 0.9MB] Background The Navy traces its ancestry to 13 October 1775, when an act of the Continental Congress authorized the first ship of a new navy for the United Colonies, as they were then known. The ships of the Continental Navy, and of the Navy later established under the Federal Constitution, were not named in any strictly categorical manner. Ship names in the Continental Navy and the early Federal navy came from a variety of sources. As if to emphasize the ties that many Americans still felt…
Background West Desert Test Center (WDTC) is the testing area for US Army Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) and is designated as the US Army’s Major Range and Test Facility Base for chemical and biological defense testing. WDTC specializes in planning, conducting, and analyzing results of developmental and production tests. Areas of expertise include chemical and biological (CB) defense, smoke and obscurants, materiel and delivery systems, munitions and incendiary devices, meteorological research and modeling, environmental characterization and remediation technology testing, and technology transfer to include specialized hands-on CB training for military and civil support teams. DPG is part of the US…
Background In June 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden perpetrated the largest and most damaging Public release of classified information in U.S. intelligence history. In August 2014, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) directed Committee staff to carry out a comprehensive review of the unauthorized disclosures. The aim of the review was to allow the Committee to explain to other Members of Congress-and, where possible, the American people-how this breach occurred, what the U.S. Government knows about the man who committed it, and whether the security shortfalls it highlighted had been remedied. Download the Report Executive Summary…
Introduction Excerpt from the document: This document contains papers related to the NACA Conference on “The Turbojet Engine for Supersonic Propulsion” held at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory October 8 and 9, 1953. Much of the material presented here was presented in the panel-type discussions of the conference. In some cases, in order to supplement those discussions, material not previously presented is included. A list of the conferees is included. On a side note, I found this document in a hunt to find references to my Grandfather, R.E. Greenewald, who worked on many classified government programs in relation to missile…