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Auditing and Financial Management

Emergency Relief Funds: Significant Improvements Are Needed to Address Fraud and Improper Payments

GAO-23-106556

Published: Feb 01, 2023.

Publicly Released: Feb 01, 2023.
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Information Security

Cybersecurity High-Risk Series: Challenges in Securing Federal Systems and Information

GAO-23-106428

Published: Jan 31, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2023.
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Health Care

Medicare Advantage: Plans Generally Offered Some Supplemental Benefits, but CMS Has Limited Data on Utilization

GAO-23-105527

Published: Jan 31, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2023.
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National Defense

Weapon System Sustainment: Navy Ship Usage Has Decreased as Challenges and Costs Have Increased

GAO-23-106440

Published: Jan 31, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2023.
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Health Care

Pediatric Cancer Studies: Early Results of the Research to Accelerate Cures and Equity for Children Act

GAO-23-105947

Published: Jan 31, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jan 31, 2023.
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Auditing and Financial Management

Government Auditing Standards: 2023 Exposure Draft

GAO-23-106303

Published: Jan 30, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jan 30, 2023.

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Jan 31

LMI Consulting, LLC

We deny the protest.

B-421233,B-421233.2,B-421233.4,B-421233.5

Jan 30

Applied Insight, LLC

We deny the protest.

B-421221,B-421221.3

Jan 30

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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How Prevalent is Fraud in Federal Programs? We Take a Look—Focusing on Unemployment Insurance Oversight

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GAO Issues and Seeks Comments on Draft Updates to "Yellow Book," the Preeminent Standards for Government Auditing

Monday, January 30, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC (January 30, 2023)—Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued an exposure draft with proposed updates to Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)...

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Emergency Relief Funds: Significant Improvements Are Needed to Address Fraud and Improper Payments

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Pediatric Cancer Studies: Early Results of the Research to Accelerate Cures and Equity for Children Act

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Emergency Relief Funds: Significant Improvements Are Needed to Address Fraud and Improper Payments

Cybersecurity High-Risk Series: Challenges in Securing Federal Systems and Information

Medicare Advantage: Plans Generally Offered Some Supplemental Benefits, but CMS Has Limited Data on Utilization

Weapon System Sustainment: Navy Ship Usage Has Decreased as Challenges and Costs Have Increased

Pediatric Cancer Studies: Early Results of the Research to Accelerate Cures and Equity for Children Act

Government Auditing Standards: 2023 Exposure Draft

Legal Decisions

Featured Topics

Recent News

Closing the Digital Divide for the Millions of Americans without Broad...

Navy Ship Maintenance and Operation Costs Grew as Use Shrank

Efforts to Promote Pediatric Cancer Research

How Prevalent is Fraud in Federal Programs? We Take a Look—Focusing on Unemployment Insurance Oversight

Public Health Preparedness