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AF Museum Looted(?)

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A March 21, 2002, audit of the museum by the Wright-Patterson Area Audit Office, obtained by the Dayton Daily News, reported that 1,000 items could not be located. Auditors concluded the museum's personnel "did not always effectively manage museum property."

It's not just carelessness, it's theft, said Albert Harris Jr., a former museum worker who says he was punished when he blew the whistle.

"We witnessed, we watched it, we complained about it," said Harris, who now works at the base library. "Thousands of artifacts are missing."

Investigators dismissed Harris' early complaints. But a later probe led to the federal indictment this year of the museum's former chief of collections, charged with selling an armored vehicle that he knew had been stolen from the museum.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0824museum.html

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Sun Aug-24-03 05:21 PM
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1. Not too suprised

WPFAB is a zoo.

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Sun Aug-24-03 05:36 PM
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2. prolly just the Bushes....

....hiding anything that could be incriminating for AWOL George.

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Sun Aug-24-03 07:10 PM
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3. GIGO - Lions of Technology Now Eat American's lambs

Edited on Sun Aug-24-03 07:22 PM by InkAddict

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Computerworld honors AFRL engineer, project
By Jill Bohn - Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFMCNS) – An Air Force Research Laboratory engineer and project became part of the Computerworld Honors Archive on Information Technology in San Francisco recently when the 2001 Collection was presented to the International Archives.
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project, the information and resource support system, are now listed among organizations that are using information technology to improve society. The Computerworld Honors online archive and the Collections of the Academic Council searches for and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive to use information technology in innovative ways across ten categories: Business and related services; education and academia; environment, energy and agriculture; finance, insurance and real estate; government and non-profit organizations; manufacturing; media, arts and entertainment; medicine; science; and transportation.

{snip} information and resource support system is a global information system. It supports collaboration among the United States Department of Defense military and civilian workers who conduct strategic planning, allocate resources to military projects and activities, and support the development of new weapon systems.

"IRSS is a comprehensive way of storing data so it’s useful and quickly accessible," said . "It’s a robust technology that allows you to express your work in terms that other people can understand and in formats that enable others to find and reuse your data."

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Created in 1988, the Computerworld Honors collections now encompass nearly 4,000 case studies submitted by laureates on six continents. Case studies from the 2001 Computerworld Honors Collection are available online at http://www.cwheroes.org, the official internet site of the Computerworld Honors Program, where the entire collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide.

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