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Open Recommendations (89 total)

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Agencies Need to Enhance Oversight of Ransomware Practices and Assess Federal Support

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should, in coordination with CISA, co-SRMAs, and sector entities, determine the extent to which the transportation systems sector is adopting leading cybersecurity practices that help reduce the sector's risk of ransomware. (Recommendation 10)
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should, in coordination with CISA, co-SRMAs, and sector entities, assess ransomware risks to the transportation systems sector. (Recommendation 9)
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Agencies Need to Enhance Oversight of Ransomware Practices and Assess Federal Support

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should, in coordination with CISA, co-SRMAs, and sector entities, develop and implement routine evaluation procedures that measure the effectiveness of federal support in helping reduce the risk of ransomware to the transportation systems sector. (Recommendation 11)
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Federal Regulation: Selected Emerging Technologies Highlight the Need for Legislative Analysis and Enhanced Coordination

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should provide the public with information on the NETT Council's completed and planned efforts to evaluate relevant emerging technologies. (Recommendation 2)
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Improve Transparency in the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should clearly define, in the Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program evaluation plan and Notice of Funding Opportunity, how an application may qualify as an "exemplary project of national or regional significance that generates significant benefits in one of the project outcome areas." (Recommendation 2)
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Improve Transparency in the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that Office of the Secretary officials establish quality control procedures to verify that the conflict-of-interest screening and eligibility determination documentation is complete for Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program applications. (Recommendation 1)
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Artificial Intelligence: Agencies Have Begun Implementation but Need to Complete Key Requirements

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that the department updates its AI use case inventory to include all the required information, at minimum, and takes steps to ensure that the data in the inventory aligns with provided instructions. (Recommendation 25)
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that the department (a) reviews the department's authorities related to applications of AI and (b) develops and submits to OMB plans to achieve consistency with the Regulation of AI Applications memorandum (M-21-06). (Recommendation 24)
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Cybersecurity: Federal Agencies Made Progress, but Need to Fully Implement Incident Response Requirements

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that the agency fully implements all event logging requirements as directed by OMB guidance. (Recommendation 12)
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Better Align Its Application Evaluation Process with Federal Guidance

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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure RAISE officials develop an enhanced process to verify that DOT documents all decisions to include projects with a negative benefit-cost analysis rating on the Highly Rated List prior to sending the Highly Rated List to the Secretary of Transportation. (Recommendation 3)
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As of March 2024, DOT stated that it concurred with this recommendation and agreed to provide additional information on its planned actions by May 2024. GAO will monitor DOT's efforts to address this recommendation.