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General Accounting Office Reports
_A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
General Accounting Office
P.O. Box 6015
Gaithersburg, MD 20877 USA
_E_m_a_i_l: KH3@cu.nih.gov
_P_h_o_n_e: GAO report distribution: 202/275-6241 (7:30 a.m.-5:30
p.m. EST)
_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n
Reports of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) cover a
broad range of subjects such as major weapons systems,
energy, financial institutions, and pollution control. The
following GAO reports are available over the Internet as
part of a test to determine whether there is sufficient
interest within this community to warrant making all GAO
reports available over the Internet.
1. Computer Security: Governmentwide Planning Process Had
Limited Impact, GAO/IMTEC-90-48, May 1990.
Assesses the governmentwide computer security planning pro-
cess and extent to which security plans were implemented for
22 systems at 10 civilian agencies. (This report is named
REPORT1 and is 55,062 bytes or 1,190 lines long.)
2. Drug-Exposed Infants: A Generation at Risk, GAO/HRD-90-
138, June 1990.
Discusses health effects and medical costs of infants born
to mothers using drugs, impact on the nation's health and
welfare systems, and availability of drug treatment and pre-
natal care to drug-addicted pregnant women. (This report is
named REPORT2 and is 113,916 bytes or 2,421 lines long.)
3. High-Definition Television: Applications for This New
Technology, GAO/IMTEC-90-9FS, December 1989.
Provides information on 14 HDTV applications and the key
_________________________
The information in this section is provided in accor-
dance with the copyright notice appearing at the front
of this guide.
August 1, 1991 NNSC Section 3.30, Page 1
industry officials' views on the effect of an HDTV produc-
tion standard on potential applications. (This report is
named REPORT3 and is 31,947 bytes or 643 lines long.)
4. Home Visiting: A Promising Early Intervention Strategy
for At-Risk Families, GAO/HRD-90-83, July 1990.
Discusses home visiting as an early intervention strategy to
provide health, social, educational, and other services to
improve maternal and child health and well-being. (This
report is named REPORT4 and is 287,547 bytes or 5,711 lines
long.)
5. Meeting the Government's Technology Challenge: Results
of a GAO Symposium, GAO/IMTEC-90-23, February 1990.
Outlines five principles for effective management of infor-
mation technology that can provide a framework for integrat-
ing information technology into the business of government.
(This report is named REPORT5 and is 39,017 bytes or 777
lines long.)
6. Strategic Defense System: Stable Design and Adequate
Testing Must Precede Decision to Deploy, GAO/IMTEC-90-61,
July 1990.
Discusses why the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
will not be able to support currently scheduled full-scale
development or deployment decisions on any part of Phase I
of the Strategic Defense System. (This report is named
REPORT6 and is 104,521 bytes or 1,847 lines long.)
7. Training Strategies: Preparing Noncollege Youth for
Employment in the U.S. and Foreign Countries, GAO/HRD-90-
88, May 1990.
Discusses (1) weaknesses in the U.S. education and training
system for preparing noncollege youth for employment and (2)
foreign strategies that appear relevant to U.S. shortcom-
ings. (This report is named REPORT7 and is 190,323 bytes or
3,951 lines long.
_N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s
The reports are in ASCII text format by anonymous FTP in the
directory GAO-REPORTS at the NIH computer center,
cu.nih.gov. Use the FTP text format.
_M_i_s_c_e_l_l_a_n_e_o_u_s _I_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n
Some of these reports have material (such as pictures,
charts, and tables) that could not be viewed as ASCII text.
August 1, 1991 NNSC Section 3.30, Page 2
If you wish to obtain a complete report, call GAO report
distribution at (202) 275-6241 (7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EST) or
write to the address above.
So that we can keep a count of report recipients, and your
reaction, please send an e-mail message to KH3@cu.nih.gov
and include, along with your e-mail address, the following
information:
Your organization, your position/title and name (optional),
the title/report number of the above reports you have
retrieved electronically or ordered by mail or phone,
whether you have ever obtained a GAO report before, whether
you have copied a report onto another bulletin board-if so,
which report and bulletin board, other GAO report subjects
you would be interested in, and any additional comments or
suggestions.
August 1, 1991 NNSC Section 3.30, Page 3