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Multimodal Freight Office: DOT Should Report to Congress on Progress Toward Meeting Statutory Requirements
Mon Apr 20 7:31 am
What GAO Found The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA) required the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish the Office of Multimodal Freight Infrastructure and Policy…
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Guam: Considerations for Evaluating Alternative Customs Models and Potential Economic Effects
Fri Apr 17 7:15 am
What GAO Found Several factors limit the operations of Guam’s Customs and Quarantine Agency (CQA). For example, CQA maintains only paper-based records of customs transactions, which officials said…
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VA Health Care: Efforts to Assess Mental Health Support for Veteran Caregiver Program Need Strengthening
Thu Apr 16 7:26 am
What GAO Found The Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Caregiver Support Program offers mental health support, among other benefits, to eligible caregivers who provide around the clock care for…
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Congressional Review Act: Agencies and Congress Could Improve Implementation of 60-Day Delay for Major Rules
Thu Apr 16 7:09 am
What GAO Found For about a quarter of the major rules issued from January 21, 2021, to January 20, 2025 (119 of 462 rules), agencies published effective dates inconsistent with the Congressional…
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LOGMET LLC
Thu Apr 16 11:14 am
LOGMET LLC (Logmet), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Round Rock, Texas, protests its non-selection for a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract…
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Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Wed Apr 15 3:22 pm
What GAO Found GAO’s work continues to make an impact. Executive branch agencies use GAO’s work to improve their operations, performance, and efficiency, and Congress uses it to inform…
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Combating Fraud: Challenges in Managing Fraud Risks in Federally Funded, State-Administered Programs
Wed Apr 15 10:06 am
What GAO Found All federal programs and operations are at risk of fraud, regardless of whether they provide financial or nonfinancial benefits or delivery takes place at the federal, state, or…
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Veterans Community Care Program: Information on Behavioral Health Referrals, Fiscal Years 2021 Through 2024
Tue Apr 14 7:22 am
What GAO Found The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates the nation’s largest health care system through its Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and serves about 9 million veterans annually…
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Identity One, LLC
Tue Apr 14 9:54 am
Identity One, LLC, a small business of Atlanta, Georgia, protests the scope of a corrective action in connection with a protest that challenged the award of a contract to Parroco Production Group,…
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Grants Management: Efforts to Address Challenges Through Government-wide Collaboration
Tue Apr 14 7:02 am
What GAO Found To design and administer federal grant programs, agencies must navigate a variety of requirements and guidance. While there are certain standard requirements, each grant program has…
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DOD Financial Management: Navy Needs to Fully Address Strategic Planning and Systems Migration Leading Practices
Tue Apr 14 6:58 am
What GAO Found In response to its December 2020 acknowledgment that it had wasted billions of dollars sustaining redundant and obsolete IT systems, the Department of the Navy initiated an effort to…
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Airport Financial Reporting: FAA Should Implement Controls to Improve Data Quality
Tue Apr 14 6:53 am
What GAO Found The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) created the Certification Activity Tracking System (CATS) website for officials at commercial service airports to file and certify their…
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