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Federal Real Property: Improved Transparency Could Help Efforts to Manage Agencies' Maintenance and Repair Backlogs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The five federal agencies GAO reviewed--the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Departments of Energy (DOE), Homeland Security (DHS), the Interior, and Veterans' Affairs (VA)--reported fiscal year 2012 deferred maintenance and repair backlog estimates that ranged from nearly $1 billion to $20 billion. In accordance with Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) standards, agencies re… more
Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Strategic Sourcing: Selected Agencies Should Develop Performance Measures on Inclusion of Small Businesses and OMB Should Improve Monitoring

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the General Services Administration (GSA), and selected agencies have taken steps to consider small businesses, including small disadvantaged businesses, in their strategic sourcing efforts. (Small disadvantaged businesses are those unconditionally owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.) OMB and GSA have developed guidance … more
Date: January 23, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Automatic IRAS: Lower-Earning Households Could Realize Increases in Retirement Income

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Households without employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) pension plans or individual retirement accounts (IRA) had lower incomes and tax rates than households with those plans, and are also likely to have limited additional resources to draw upon in retirement, according to GAO estimates. The median adjusted gross income for households without DC plans or IRAs was $32,000, compared to $75,000 for… more
Date: August 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Oil and Gas Development: BLM Needs Better Data to Track Permit Processing Times and Prioritize Inspections

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data indicate that BLM received about half as many applications for permit to drill (APD) for federal oil and gas resources in fiscal year 2012 as it had in fiscal year 2007. The decline in APDs since 2007 was driven by declines in natural gas and coalbed methane APDs on federal lands even while oil development on federal lands increased significantly. The reasons BLM off… more
Date: August 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Medicare Program Integrity: Increasing Consistency of Contractor Requirements May Improve Administrative Efficiency

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) contractors that conduct postpayment reviews on Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims were established by different legislative actions; are managed by different offices within CMS; and serve different functions in the program. These contractors include (1) Medicare Administrative Contractors that process and pay claims and are responsible for taking a… more
Date: July 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Private Health Insurance: The Range of Base Premiums in the Individual Market by State in January 2013

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reported the range of base premiums prior to underwriting for health insurance in the individual market that were displayed on the HealthCare.gov Plan Finder in the month of January 2013 for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The base premiums displayed on the HealthCare.gov Plan Finder reflected information from data submitted by insurers to the Center for Consumer Information and I… more
Date: July 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Defense Acquisitions: Continued Management Attention Needed to Enhance Use and Review of DOD's Inventory of Contracted Services

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Over the past year and a half, the Department of Defense (DOD) has taken steps to implement its plan to collect contractor manpower data directly from contractors and to develop and implement a department-wide system, based on the Army's existing system, to collect and store these and other inventory data. DOD officials estimate that the data system will be available in fiscal year 2014, with DOD compon… more
Date: May 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Export-Import Bank: More Detailed Information about Its Jobs Calculation Methodology Could Improve Transparency

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Export-Import Bank's (Ex-Im) methodology to calculate the number of U.S. jobs associated with the exports it helps finance has four key steps. First, Ex-Im determines the industry associated with each transaction it finances. Second, Ex-Im calculates the total value of exports it supports for each industry. Ex-Im implements these first two steps using its own data. Third, Ex-Im multiplies the e… more
Date: May 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Grants Management: Improved Planning, Coordination, and Communication Needed to Strengthen Reform Efforts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In the past 14 years, since the passage of the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-107), there has been a series of legislative- and executive-sponsored initiatives aimed at reforming aspects of the grants management life cycle. Recently, a new grants reform governance body, the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR), replaced two former federal boards--the … more
Date: May 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Data Center Consolidation: Strengthened Oversight Needed to Achieve Cost Savings Goal

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The 24 agencies participating in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) made progress towards the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) goal to close 40 percent, or 1,253 of the 3,133 total federal data centers, by the end of 2015, but OMB has not measured agencies' progress against its other goal of $3 billion in cost savings by the end of 2015. Agencies closed 420 data centers by t… more
Date: April 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Voters with Disabilities: Challenges to Voting Accessibility

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Compared to 2000, the proportion of polling places in 2008 without potential impediments increased and almost all polling places had an accessible voting system as states and localities made various efforts to help facilitate accessible voting. In 2008, based upon GAO's survey of polling places, GAO estimated that 27 percent of polling places had no potential impediments in the path from the parking to the vo… more
Date: April 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Acquisition Workforce: DOT Lacks Data, Oversight, and Strategic Focus Needed to Address Significant Workforce Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Transportation (DOT) lacks sufficient and reliable data to fully identify its acquisition workforce needs and assess progress in addressing shortfalls over time. Over the last 3 years, the Office of the Senior Procurement Executive—the office within the Office of the Secretary of Transportation responsible for department-wide acquisition workforce management—has submitted acquisition w… more
Date: January 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Financial Regulatory Reform: Regulators Have Faced Challenges Finalizing Key Reforms and Unaddressed Areas Pose Potential Risks

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Implementation of financial regulatory reform is ongoing. Although regulators have made progress in implementing some key reforms required by the Dodd- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act), others remain incomplete. Moreover, the effectiveness of some implemented reforms, as illustrated below, remains to be seen."
Date: January 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Pipeline Safety: Better Data and Guidance Needed to Improve Pipeline Operator Incident Response

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Transportation's (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has an opportunity to improve the ability of pipeline operators to respond to incidents by developing a performance-based approach for incident response times. The ability of transmission pipeline operators to respond to incidents--such as leaks and ruptures--is affected by numerous variables, some of… more
Date: January 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Protecting Defense Technologies: DOD Assessment Needed to Determine Requirement for Critical Technologies List

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "While the Department of Defense (DOD) took steps to address previously identified weaknesses in updating and maintaining the Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL), the list remains outdated and updates have ceased. For example, DOD has solicited users' requirements and feedback on the MCTL, and added a search engine capability to improve navigation of the list and updated each technology section … more
Date: January 23, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Defense Acquisitions: Future Aerostat and Airship Investment Decisions Drive Oversight and Coordination Needs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO identified 15 key aerostat and airship efforts that were underway or had been initiated since 2007, and the Department of Defense (DOD) had or has primary responsibility for all of these efforts. None of the civil agency efforts met GAO's criteria for a key effort. Most of the aerostat and airship efforts have been fielded or completed, and are intended to provide intelligence, surveillance, and rec… more
Date: October 23, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Department of Defense's Waiver of Competitive Prototyping Requirement for Enhanced Polar System Program

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "DOD's rationale for waiving WSARA's competitive prototyping requirement for CAPS covered both bases provided in the statute; however, DOD did not provide complete information about the potential benefits of competitive prototyping or support for its conclusion that prototyping would result in schedule delays. In the waiver, DOD found reasonable the Air Force's conclusion that the additional $49 million c… more
Date: August 23, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Entrepreneurial Assistance: Opportunities Exist to Improve Programs' Collaboration, Data-Tracking, and Performance Management

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Federal efforts to support entrepreneurs are fragmented--including among 52 programs at the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Commerce, and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). All overlap with at least one other program in terms of the type of assistance they are authorized to offer, such as financial (grants and loans) and technical (training and counseling)… more
Date: August 23, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Debt Limit: Analysis of 2011-2012 Actions Taken and Effect of Delayed Increase on Borrowing Costs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "On August 2, 2011, Congress and the President enacted the Budget Control Act of 2011, which established a process that increased the debt limit to its current level of $16.4 trillion through incremental increases effective on August 2, 2011; after close of business on September 21, 2011; and after close of business on January 27, 2012. Delays in raising the debt limit occurred prior to the August 2011 a… more
Date: July 23, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Financial Literacy: Overlap of Programs Suggests There May Be Opportunities for Consolidation

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government spent about $68 million on 15 of the 16 financial literacy programs that were comprehensive in scope or scale in fiscal year 2010; cost data were not available for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which was created that year. In addition, about $137 million in federal funding in four other major programs was directed to housing counseling, which can include element… more
Date: July 23, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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World Health Organization: Reform Agenda Developed, but U.S. Actions to Monitor Progress Could be Enhanced

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In May 2012, 194 member states approved components of the World Health Organization's (WHO) reform agenda, encompassing three broad areas--priority-setting, governance, and management reforms--that generally address the challenges identified by stakeholders. According to WHO officials, member state representatives, and other stakeholders, some of the challenges facing WHO include its (1) lack of clear o… more
Date: July 23, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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