How to Save (A Lot More Than) A Billion—Reducing Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication in Government Programs
Posted on April 26, 2017
Today we released our latest report on fragmentation, overlap, and duplication among federal programs. Since 2011, we’ve been reporting on ways the government can be more efficient and save taxpayer money by looking for programs that

- work on different parts of the same goal or are broken out across different parts of the same agency (fragmentation)
- have similar goals or provide similar services (overlap)
- work on the same activities or provide the same services (duplication)
- Federal agencies could save billions by using strategic sourcing to procure goods and services—for example, leveraging the government’s buying power to get better deals on everything from office supplies to laptops
- The Internal Revenue Service could save billions of dollars by helping to prevent identity theft refund fraud
