"Title: Download of GAO Recommendation Results",,,,,,, "Prepared by: GAO",,,,,,, "Source: GAO recommendations database, status as of Mar 29, 2024 at 8:18 AM EST" ,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, "Publication Name","Publication Number","Date Publication Issued","Director Name","Director Phone",Agency,Recommendation,Status,Priority,Comments "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB, in conjunction with the PMPC, should develop program and project management standards to include (1) a minimum threshold for determining the extent to which agencies have met the standards, (2) how standards apply differently at the program and project levels, (3) how standards are interrelated to work in a synchronized way, and (4) how standards should be applied across the life cycle of a program or project. (Recommendation 1)",Open,No,"OMB disagrees with GAO that action is needed. As of December 2022, OMB indicated that it plans to take no action on this recommendation." "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB, in conjunction with the PMPC, should create a governance structure to further develop and maintain program and project management standards that fully aligns with key practices for governance structures. (Recommendation 2)",Open,No,"OMB disagrees with GAO that action is needed. As of December 2022, OMB indicated that it plans to take no action on this recommendation." "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB should, when expanding PMIAA to additional program types, design pilot efforts to follow leading practices so that OMB can optimize its efforts to improve and broaden portfolio reviews across a full range of program types. (Recommendation 3)",Open,No,"OMB disagrees with GAO that action is needed. As of December 2022, OMB indicated that it plans to take no action on this recommendation." "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB should communicate program areas and timeframes, and expectations pertinent to annual program portfolio reviews, to be reviewed in future program portfolio reviews. (Recommendation 4)",Open,No,"OMB disagrees with GAO that action is needed. As of December 2022, OMB indicated that it plans to take no action on this recommendation." "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB should clarify for agencies how the different definitions of a ""program"" relate to each other in OMB guidance. (Recommendation 5)",Open,Yes,"OMB disagrees with GAO that action is needed. As of December 2022, OMB indicated that it plans to take no action on this recommendation." "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB should convene trilateral meetings between OMB, relevant agencies, and us for addressing all high-risk areas during each two-year high-risk cycle (Recommendation 6).",Open,Yes,"In June 2021 we added this recommendation as a priority in our OMB priority recommendation letter. The letter states: OMB should convene trilateral meetings between OMB, relevant agencies, and GAO for addressing all areas on our High Risk List during each two-year high-risk cycle. Doing so would better position OMB to enhance the leadership commitment needed to make greater progress on high-risk areas. Meetings with senior OMB and agency officials on individual high-risk areas have proven in the past to be helpful to making progress. These meetings would also help OMB meet statutory requirements to conduct portfolio reviews of programs on GAO's high-risk list. As of December 2022, several meetings have taken place with OMB, the agencies, and GAO. However, not all high-risk areas have been covered." "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB, in conjunction with PMPC, should ensure PMPC meeting agendas include time for discussing high-risk areas during meetings and provide time for the PMPC to make recommendations to OMB about addressing high-risk areas. (Recommendation 7)",Open,No,"OMB disagrees with GAO that action is needed. As of December 2022, OMB indicated that it plans to take no action on this recommendation." "Improving Program Management: Key Actions Taken, but Further Efforts Needed to Strengthen Standards, Expand Reviews, and Address High-Risk Areas",GAO-20-44,"Dec 13, 2019","Yvonne Jones","(202) 512-6806","Deputy Director for Management","The Deputy Director for Management of OMB, in conjunction with PMPC, should establish measures to assess outcomes of PMIAA, such as establishing a baseline of information on programs or collecting trend data. (Recommendation 8)",Open,No,"OMB disagrees with GAO that action is needed. As of December 2022, OMB indicated that it plans to take no action on this recommendation."