The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is often called the investigative arm of Congress. This week they investigated a variety of issues, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom, aviation security, the highway bridge program, and oil and gas royalties. If you would like to know more about the GAO, check out the library's guide.Reports
- Aviation Security: TSA Is Enhancing Its Oversight of Air Carrier Efforts to Identify Passengers on the No Fly and Selectee Lists, but Expects Ultimate Solution to Be Implementation of Secure Flight. GAO-08-992, September 9.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-992
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08992high.pdf - Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Guidance Needed to Better Inform Plans of the Challenges and Risks of Investing in Hedge Funds and Private Equity. GAO-08-692, August 14.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-692
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08692high.pdf - DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Management Controls Being Implemented on Major Navy Program, but Improvements Needed in Key Areas. GAO-08-896, September 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-896
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08896high.pdf - DOD Business Systems Modernization: Planned Investment in Navy Program to Create Cashless Shipboard Environment Needs to Be Justified and Better Managed. GAO-08-922, September 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-922
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08922high.pdf - Elections: Federal Programs for Accrediting Laboratories That Test Voting Systems Need to Be Better Defined and Implemented. GAO-08-770, September 9.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-770
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08770high.pdf - Federal Courthouse Construction: Estimated Costs to House the L.A. District Court Have Tripled and There Is No Consensus on How to Proceed. GAO-08-889, September 12.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-889
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08889high.pdf - Federal Real Property: Progress Made in Reducing Unneeded Property, but VA Needs Better Information to Make Further Reductions. GAO-08-939, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-939
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08939high.pdf - Health Resources and Services Administration: Many Underserved Areas Lack a Health Center Site, and the Health Center Program Needs More Oversight. GAO-08-723, August 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-723
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08723high.pdf - Highway Bridge Program: Clearer Goals and Performance Measures Needed for a More Focused and Sustainable Program. GAO-08-1043, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1043
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081043high.pdf - Human Capital: DOD Needs to Improve Implementation of and Address Employee Concerns about Its National Security Personnel System. GAO-08-773, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-773
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08773high.pdf - Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Systems Acquisition and the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System. GAO-08-1078, September 11.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1078
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081078high.pdf - Oil and Gas Royalties: The Federal System for Collecting Oil and Gas Revenues Needs Comprehensive Reassessment. GAO-08-691, September 3.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-691
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08691high.pdf - Operation Iraqi Freedom: Actions Needed to Enhance DOD Planning for Reposturing of U.S. Forces from Iraq. GAO-08-930, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-930
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08930high.pdf - Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Need for Improved Oversight Persists. GAO-08-1062, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1062
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081062high.pdf - U.S. Multinational Corporations: Effective Tax Rates Are Correlated with Where Income Is Reported. GAO-08-950, August 12.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-950
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08950high.pdf - U.S. Postal Service: New Delivery Performance Measures Could Enhance Managers' Pay for Performance Program. GAO-08-996, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-996
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08996high.pdf - Veterans Health Administration: Improvements Needed in Design of Controls over Miscellaneous Obligations. GAO-08-976, September 11.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-976
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08976high.pdf - Women's Earnings: Federal Agencies Should Better Monitor Their Performance in Enforcing Anti-Discrimination Laws. GAO-08-799, August 11.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-799
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08799high.pdf
- Assessment of the Explanation That Immigration and Customs Enforcement Provided for Its Subsequent Transfer from the Spectrum Relocation Fund. GAO-08-846R, September 9.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-846R - DOD Systems Modernization: Maintaining Effective Communication Is Needed to Help Ensure the Army's Successful Deployment of the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System. GAO-08-927R, September 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-927R - Highway Public-Private Partnerships: More Rigorous Up-Front Analysis Could Better Secure Potential Benefits and Protect the Public Interest. GAO-08-1149R, September 8.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1149R - Mineral Revenues: Data Management Problems and Reliance on Self-Reported Data for Compliance Efforts Put MMS Royalty Collections at Risk. GAO-08-893R, September 12.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-893R - NASA Workforce: Briefing on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Use of Term Appointments. GAO-08-920R, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-920R
- Aviation Security: TSA Is Enhancing Its Oversight of Air Carrier Efforts to Screen Passengers against Terrorist Watch-List Records, but Expects Ultimate Solution to Be Implementation of Secure Flight, by Cathleen A. Berrick, director, homeland security and justice issues, before the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection, House Committee on Homeland Security. GAO-08-1136T, September 9.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1136T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081136thigh.pdf - Bureau of Indian Education: Improving Interior's Assistance Would Aid Tribal Groups Developing Academic Accountability Systems, by Cornelia M. Ashby, director, education, workforce, and income security, before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, House Committee on Education and Labor. GAO-08-1125T, September 9.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1125T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081125thigh.pdf - DCAA Audits: Allegations That Certain Audits at Three Locations Did Not Meet Professional Standards Were Substantiated, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, forensic audits and special investigations, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-08-993T, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-993T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08993thigh.pdf
- Highway Bridge Program: Clearer Goals and Performance Measures Needed for a More Focused and Sustainable Program, by Katherine A. Siggerud, managing director, physical infrastructure issues, before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. GAO-08-1127T, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1127T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081127thigh.pdf - Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Strengthen Implementation and Oversight of DOD's and the Coast Guard's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs, by Brenda S. Farrell, director, defense capabilities and management, before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-08-1146T, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1146T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081146thigh.pdf - Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Key Issues Associated with the Transition to NextGen, by Gerald L. Dillingham, director, physical infrastructure issues, before the House Committee on Science and Technology. GAO-08-1154T, September 11.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1154T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081154thigh.pdf - Secure Border Initiative: DHS Needs to Address Significant Risks in Delivering Key Technology Investment, by Randolph C. Hite, director, information technology architecture and system issues, before the House Committee on Homeland Security. GAO-08-1148T, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1148T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081148thigh.pdf
- Secure Border Initiative: Observations on Deployment Challenges, by Richard M. Stana, director, homeland security and justice issues, before the House Committee on Homeland Security. GAO-08-1141T, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1141T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081141thigh.pdf - The Upcoming Transition: GAO's Efforts to Assist the 111th Congress and the Next Administration, by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general, before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-08-1153T, September 10.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-1153T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081153thigh.pdf
- U.S. Multinational Corporations: Effective Tax Rates Are Correlated with Where Income Is Reported. GAO-08-950, August 12. [File revised to correct graphics on pages 13 and 15 and the highlights page.]
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-08-950
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d08950high.pdf
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