At the discretion of the secretary of defense, the medal may be awarded to non-Defense Department employees, such as contractors, based on their involvement in department activities.
In fact, were the Senate and the full Congress to go along with this recommendation, the consequences would likely be directly at odds with congressionally mandated trends toward consolidation, streamlining and wherever possible "joint" performance of Defense Department activities.
Samer Frangieh, QNFSP, senior advisor to Chairman, Qatar and Graham Pugh, Team Leader, International Climate Activities, Department of Energy, United States.
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The Executive Director shall coordinate activities both within the Department of Commerce and with other executive departments and agencies that have activities relating to business investment decisions.
Romero and other civil liberties groups called on the Justice Department to examine the activities of high-level Bush administration officials who approved harsh interrogation practices, including waterboarding detainees.
MS. BROWNER: There was no discussion about any -- at any time in the meeting, there was no discussion of any activities related to the Department of Justice investigation.
This system will provide a common platform for all stakeholders of flood management and related activities including Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Indus River System Authority (IRSA), Federal Flood Commission (FFC), Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), Indus Water Commissioner (IWC), provincial irrigation departments, and many others.
Matthew Yale, deputy chief of staff to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, is the department's point person on interagency activities.
Mr. Obama called such activities unacceptable and the Justice Department launched a criminal probe, but IRS officials have been far less than forthcoming.
What has changed, he said, is that the Revenue Department is trying to clarify how recreational activities should be treated under existing law.
In making the government's subpoenas public Monday, AP denounced the effort as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion by the Department of Justice into the news-gathering activities" of the company.
In making the government's subpoenas public Monday, AP denounced the effort as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion by the Department of Justice into the news-gathering activities" of the news organization.
The Department of Homeland Security has designated all the activities in California and Washington related to Reagan's memorial a special security event, which puts the Secret Service in charge of overseeing precautions.
Such has been the function of the stop-and-frisk activities of the New York Police Department, originally under its famed Street Crimes Unit, which developed an uncanny expertise at identifying those likely to be carrying illegal weapons.
While the Department of Defense has maintained that American military activities will be exempt from dispute resolution, and that in any event the U.S. will only submit to LOST arbitration panels where the DoD insists we will win handily, there is plenty of room for abuse.
Huang's activities are being probed by the Justice Department and several congressional committees.
And today, the Department of Justice issued a scathing report about the FBI activities.
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The Department of the Navy has been especially forthcoming in disclosing what activities will be cut, and where.
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Insurgent and militia groups in Iraq have profited from the theft and illicit sale of oil to fund their activities, says the U.S. Defense Department.
The Interior Department granted the company permission to begin "certain limited preparatory activities" -- including work related to the installation of a blowout preventer -- on August 30.
What scared her off were a couple of key Justice Department announcements, issued while it was pending, indicating that activities permitted under state law would not necessarily be shielded from federal prosecution.
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State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens has also taken part in activities to promote this region, including the Boreas Ponds trip.
As of March 28, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcment (BOEMRE) of the Department of the Interior had received 31 deepwater drilling permit applications for offshore drilling activities like water injection wells and drilling from a fixed rig that were still allowed under the moratorium.
The two self-proclaimed leaders of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula were released from the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and sent to Saudi Arabia, according to a Department of Defense report on former detainees at Guantanamo who have returned to terrorism activities.
Given U.S. intelligence's knowledge of the nature and activities of China Resources, one would have thought that a Commerce Department request to grant a Top Secret security clearance to an ethnic Chinese who, although a naturalized American citizen, was formerly employed by organization in partnership with China Resources (Holdings) Company would have triggered red flags.
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Indonesian Ministry of Defense signed a Framework Arrangement on Cooperative Activities in the Field of Defense that will enhance the quality of security cooperation.
But nobody, the government now says, thought to mention Sandline's activities, or the investigation, to a foreign secretary known throughout his department for having put control of arms sales at the centre of his newly ethical foreign policy.
And at the outset of our meeting, I talked about my experience from 30 years ago when I visited the United States on the invitation of the Department of State, and about the experience of seeing the various NGOs are making activities depend solely on nations, and I saw the grassroots democracy there.
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Bradley said enforcement of laws banning anti-competitive activities in the livestock industry should be moved from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the Justice Department.
Other potential explanations offered for the increase in rates of childhood injury may include children engaging in more dangerous or riskier activities, or parents with a heightened awareness to bring children to the emergency department.
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