A new report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Department of Transportation (DoT) can be doing more to effectively implement cybersecurity policies across the agency and its components. […]

A year after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made a call for a unified Federal government broadband strategy, that idea appeared to attract some backing at a House subcommittee hearing on May 10 that tackled possible next steps for consolidating and organizing the programs. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has named Beth Killoran as the watchdog agency’s incoming chief information officer (CIO). […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to work on how it evaluates data from commercial services when it involves tracking satellites in orbit. […]

Federal agencies have increasingly made improvements in solving challenges the Government Accountability Office (GAO) features in its “High Risk” list, but more long-standing challenges still need to be addressed, U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro said on April 20 before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs to clarify some of its cybersecurity policies when it comes to the department’s acquisition programs. […]

Lawmakers have offered several proposals to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Records Modernization (EHRM) program, but VA officials and an official from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) expressed their opposition on April 19 to many of those bills during a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee legislative hearing. […]

A new Government Accountably Office (GAO) report finds that the U.S. Coast Guard’s International Port Security Program has not consistently gathered information on the security abilities and characteristics of foreign ports that play vital roles in the U.S. supply chain. […]

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published on April 17, warns about the potential of Synthetic Biology technology that can be used to create bioweapons in the future. […]

The pandemic-fueled expansion of unemployment insurance (UI) increased opportunities for fraud, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that Federal agencies have yet to fully implement recommendations to ensure they are effectively managing fraud risks. […]

The U.S. Space Force is developing approaches to address the increasing demand for the Satellite Control Network (SCN), but lacks an updated long-term sustainment plan for the network, according to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has taken some actions to modernize its software technologies, policies, and workforce; however more needs to be done for the agency to reach its software modernization goals, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]

A report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today found that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has failed to develop complete, timely, and fully transparent goals for the President’s Management Agenda (PMA). […]

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that over $240 billion was improperly distributed by the Federal government during fiscal year 2022. […]

The U.S. electrical grid connects over 11,000 power plants with about 158 million consumers across the nation. However, the electric grid was designed to deliver electricity to customers immediately – with very little energy actually stored. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends billions of dollars each year on IT, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the agency did not get the approval of its chief information officer (CIO) for many IT contract awards from fiscal year (FY) 2021. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to take action to improve its ability to recruit and retain qualified enlisted personnel and officers – including by means such as tracking cybersecurity personnel data by work role. […]

In a new report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is asking the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop time frames on when it will complete its work in helping sector risk management agencies (SRMAs) to implement their fiscal year (FY) 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) responsibilities. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed more than 1,400 recommendations for modernizing and realigning its health care infrastructure, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is finding gaps in the data VA used to inform the recommendations. […]

The Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service needs to fix weaknesses in its key controls over financial information systems that are relevant to the Schedules of Federal Debt, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]

The Biden administration’s proposed $859 million fiscal year 2024 budget for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will help the agency to maximize its science, technology, and cybersecurity reporting capabilities to meet Congress’s growing demand for those services, GAO’s top official told lawmakers at a Senate Legislative Branch Subcommittee hearing on March 15. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is taking a fresh crack at trying to guide the Defense Department (DoD) toward fixing the agency’s business and financial systems so that it can finally produce a clean annual audit. […]

The Office of Personnel Management – the Federal government’s chief human resources agency and personnel policy manager – won some praise in a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report for its efforts to help agencies close workforce skills gaps, but has more work to do in addressing skills gaps in its own operations. […]

The government watchdog agency is calling upon the State Department to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of capacity building efforts to aid foreign nations in combatting cybercrime. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that the U.S. Census Bureau spent less than it expected to on the 2020 Census, with technology being one key area that helped it to cut costs. […]

The U.S. Coast Guard has failed to meet the full operational capability of its new financial management system, due in part because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) did not address and remediate known issues identified in operational testing, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) can provide better care to its nine million patients by leveraging data that oversees staff onboarding and helps ensure that only qualified clinical staff provide care to veterans, a Feb. 24 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says. […]

The Department of Education needs to collect additional data that would help the agencyassess the performance of programs that help college students with disabilities pay for school, according to a new GAO report. […]

Tax season is upon us and outdated technology at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be delaying your tax return and refund, according to one government watchdog. […]

Protecting privacy and sensitive data remains a challenge for Federal agencies, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in the fourth and final report of its cybersecurity high-risk series. […]