GAO Reports and Releases

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is often called the investigative arm of Congress. This week GAO investigated the taxes, international waters, defense, and other topics. If you would like to know more about GAO, check out the library's guide.

Reports

• Tax Compliance: IRS May Be Able to Improve Compliance for Nonresident Aliens and Updating Requirements Could Reduce Their Compliance Burden. GAO-10-429, April 14.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-429
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10429high.pdf
• Depot Maintenance: Improved Strategic Planning Needed to Ensure That Air Force Depots Can Meet Future Maintenance Requirements. GAO-10-526, May 14.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-526
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10526high.pdf
• Defense Management: DOD Needs to Determine the Future of Its Horn of Africa Task Force. GAO-10-504, April 15.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-504
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10504high.pdf
• Palestinian Authority: U.S. Assistance Is Training and Equipping Security Forces, but the Program Needs to Measure Progress and Faces Logistical Constraints. GAO-10-505, May 11.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-505
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10505high.pdf
• Defense Infrastructure: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Navy's Basing Decision Process and DOD Oversight. GAO-10-482, May 11.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-482
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10482high.pdf
• Maritime Security: Varied Actions Taken to Enhance Cruise Ship Security, but Some Concerns Remain. GAO-10-400, April 9.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-400
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10400high.pdf
• Runaway and Homeless Youth Grants: Improvements Needed in the Grant Award Process. GAO-10-335, May 10.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-335
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10335high.pdf
• Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service's Fiscal Year 2010 Expenditure Plan. GAO-10-539, May 10.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-539
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10539high.pdf
  

Correspondences

• Foreign Assistance: U.S. Assistance to the West Bank and Gaza for Fiscal Years 2008 and 2009. GAO-10-623R, May 14.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-623R
• St. Lawrence Seaway: Estimates for the Asset Renewal Program Will Change, and Implementing Best Practices May Improve the Estimates' Reliability. GAO-10-541R, May 13.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-541R
• Firms Reported to Have Commercial Activity in the Iranian Energy Sector and U.S. Government Contracts. GAO-10-639R, May 4.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-639R
  

Testimonies

• Helium Program: Key Developments Since the Early 1990s and Future Considerations, by Anu K. Mittal, director, natural resources and environment, before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, House Committee on Natural Resources. GAO-10-700T, May 13.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-700T
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10700thigh.pdf
• Financial Services Industry: Overall Trends in Management-Level Diversity and Diversity Initiatives, 1993-2008, by Orice Williams Brown, director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, before a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, House Committee on Financial Services. GAO-10-736T, May 12.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-736T
  Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10736thigh.pdf
• Iran Sanctions: Firms Reported to Have Commercial Activity in the Iranian Energy Sector and U.S. Government Contracts, by Joseph A. Christoff, director, international affairs and trade, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. GAO-10-721T, May 12.
  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-10-721T
  

Presentation By The Acting Comptroller General

• "Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment," by Gene L. Dodaro, acting comptroller general, before the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. GAO-10-709CG, May 5, 2010
  http://www.gao.gov/cghome/d10709cg.pdf