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The local draft board is a board that administers and executes the main provisions of the Selective Service Act.Its functions comprise the registration, rejection and selection of men of military age as fixed by legislative enactment.
The U.S. Digital Service was initially established by President Barack Obama on August 11, 2014, to improve and simplify digital service, and to improve federal websites. [8] [4] [5] [6] The first head of the USDS was Mikey Dickerson, a former Google engineer who had previously been involved in the 2013–14 rescue of the HealthCare.gov website. [9]
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), [note 1] officially the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization, is a temporary organization under the United States DOGE Service, formerly known as the United States Digital Service.
The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered male (as legally defined by Executive Order 14168) U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents potentially subject to military conscription (i.e., the draft).
The government has said that draft boards are now more representative of the local communities in areas such as race and national origin. A lottery system would be used to determine the order of people being called up. Previously the oldest men who were found eligible for the draft would be taken first.
In June 2021, the Government released an 'exposure draft' of the Natural and Built Environment Bill, to enable two rounds of public consultation. [73] [74] In mid November 2022, the Government introduced the NBA and the SPA as part of its first steps to replace the Resource Management Act.
His local draft board had rejected his application for conscientious objector classification. In a unanimous 8–0 ruling ( Thurgood Marshall recused himself due to his previous involvement in the case as a U.S. Department of Justice official), the United States Supreme Court reversed the conviction that had been upheld by the Fifth Circuit .
On June 8, 2013, the Director of National Intelligence issued a fact sheet stating that PRISM "is not an undisclosed collection or data mining program," but rather "an internal government computer system" used to facilitate the collection of foreign intelligence information "under court supervision, as authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign ...