The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in coordination with the Treasury Department, to provide guidance to agencies on how to report their spending data on USAspending.gov. […]

The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Innovation Lab is building its own generative AI models to help solve some of the problems GAO’s mission teams face, according to the agency’s first chief data scientist and director of the Innovation Lab. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop benchmarks to measure Federal office building use and get rid of unneeded space, especially with recent increases in telework. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report on Oct. 19, detailing the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) current efforts to lower the potential possibilities of discrimination against certain minority groups while simultaneously working to ensure TSA meets tech requirements. […]

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is in charge of a $1 billion grant program to improve middle-mile broadband infrastructure, but a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals that the NTIA has not established measurable goals for the program. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has made it clear that Federal agencies can and must dutifully monitor whether their contractors comply with the E-Verify program that focuses on verifying the legal eligibility of employees to work in the U.S. […]

As banks and credit unions are increasingly using financial technology or “fintech” for financial services, the government watchdog is urging Federal financial agencies to do more to improve their workforce’s technology skills. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) take several steps along the way to deciding how it goes about replacing two legacy IT systems that it has used since the 1990s to manage and report on air quality data collected by state, local, Tribal, and territorial government agencies that operate air monitoring sites. […]

Federal agencies help fund small businesses’ technology research and development through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. […]

According to a new report out from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Thursday, the State Department has failed to fully implement its cybersecurity risk program and needs to take a number of steps to better protect its IT network and systems. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that Federal agencies and critical infrastructure owners must do a better job at sharing information to tackle increasingly complex cyber threats. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is looking to gain a better understanding of artificial intelligence so that the watchdog agency can audit the technology, as well as use it to organize its thousands of reports. […]

Sens. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Thom Tills, R-N.C., have reintroduced legislation in the Senate to revive the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to help members of Congress get a better handle on science and technology issues. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to do better in mitigating the effects of restrictive practices by cloud service vendors – from choice of provider to the cost of cloud services – as it moves its data and software to the cloud. […]

The rise of artificial intelligence offers exciting possibilities, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is warning that appropriate oversight will be critical to ensure AI technologies are effective. […]

The Defense Department (DoD) needs to do a better job at tracking and reporting cloud computing data transfer user fees, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report out this week. […]

While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has made strides in safeguarding taxpayer data, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report that thousands of IRS contractors are not undergoing the same insider threat awareness training that agency staff engages in, and that this training deficit means that contractors are “at increased risk of being unprepared to handle taxpayer information.” […]

A handful of law enforcement agencies across the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice (DoJ) are utilizing facial recognition technologies without requiring proper staff training to do so, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in its latest report on the technology. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is estimating that unemployment insurance fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic reached a range of $100 billion to $135 billion – way up from the $60 billion the watchdog agency previously estimated earlier this year. […]

Ahead of its second round of funding for tribal access to broadband internet services, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is urging the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to provide better feedback to applicants who were denied full project funding in the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program’s first application round. […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Joint Requirements Council (JRC) aims to help different parts of the agency to find common solutions or “joint capabilities,” but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that agency leaders are not regularly engaging with the council. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the Department of Defense (DoD) to issue more timely comments on GAO’s reports so as not to delay their publication. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a deep dive into the effects of telework – also known as remote work or “work from home” – and found that while it generally has a positive effect on productivity and performance, the long-term effects of telework remain unknown. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is pushing agencies to implement security measures to protect their cloud computing services against cyberattacks, following the July hack of Federal agency cloud-based email accounts by China-based threat actors. […]

In light of the proliferation of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, the Government Accountably Office (GAO) has added one new priority recommendation – to help regulate “blockchain-related risks” – to its list of recommendations for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). […]

“Ensuring cybersecurity” remains at the top of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) list of priorities issued annually by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for the fifth year in a row. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlined some of the leading practices that private sector organizations are using to create a range of “cyber-physical” products, and pointed to how government acquisition officials can learn from those practices to help frame changes in their own acquisition processes. […]

The Department of Energy (DoE) needs to do more to improve electric grid resilience by ensuring there are adequate reserves of spare power transformers, which are susceptible to cyberattacks and other physical threats, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report indicating that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can be doing a better job at implementing some of its key practices for its National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) program. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is seeking public input through Oct. 18 on work that the watchdog agency plans to update its guidelines on evaluating information systems controls. […]