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As of March 28, 2024, there are 5133 open recommendations that still need to be addressed. 469 of these are priority recommendations, those that we believe warrant priority attention. Learn more about our priority designation on our Recommendations page.

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1 - 20 of 5133 Recommendations, including 469 Priority Recommendations

Ukraine: Status of Foreign Assistance

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1 Open Recommendations
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance and the Comptroller implement improvements to financial systems of record to separately, more systematically, and comprehensively track the allocation, obligation, and disbursement of foreign assistance funding provided in response to the crisis in Ukraine, to include base funds allocated to areas outside of Ukraine and exclude supplemental funds that were not allocated in response to the Ukraine crisis. (Recommendation 1)
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Driver Assistance Technologies: NHTSA Should Take Action to Enhance Consumer Understanding of Capabilities and Limitations

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should communicate to the public on NHTSA's website for vehicle rating information the test conditions and performance criteria NHTSA uses to determine if a vehicle's crash avoidance technologies qualify for a checkmark on the website. (Recommendation 1)
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should provide more information on NHTSA's public website about partial driving automation systems to clarify the scope of intended use and the driver's responsibility to monitor the system and the driving environment while such a system is engaged. (Recommendation 2)
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should finalize NHTSA's roadmap for NCAP as soon as possible and include updated and realistic near-term and long-term time frames for changes to NCAP. (Recommendation 3)
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should communicate progress on meeting time frames established in its roadmap for recommending four additional crash avoidance technologies and provide updated milestones and reasons for delays as needed. (Recommendation 4)
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration The Administrator of NHTSA should communicate progress on meeting time frames established in its roadmap for developing a system for rating the technologies and redesigning the new car sticker and provide updated milestones and reasons for delays as needed. (Recommendation 5)
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Veterans Community Care Program: Additional Information on VA Statutory Appointment Timeliness Measurements is Needed

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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure VA engages with congressional oversight committees on its limitations in collecting data on referral acceptance dates to determine any potential refinements to the Isakson-Roe Act requirements or seek legislative relief as appropriate. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of VA should ensure that VA disclose, to any users of its Isakson-Roe Act bi-weekly updates to the community care appointment scheduling timeliness measurements, the quantity of referrals used to generate each measurement. (Recommendation 2)
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Maternal and Infant Health: HHS Should Strengthen Processes for Measuring Program Performance

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Health Resources and Services Administration The Administrator of HRSA should implement a documented process to review Healthy Start performance measures (including their definitions, associated data collection forms, and data dictionary), before a grant period begins, to ensure they are clear and allow for the collection of reliable data. (Recommendation 1)
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Health Resources and Services Administration The Administrator of HRSA should implement a documented process for program officials to coordinate the selection of performance measures across its related programs—Healthy Start; the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting; and the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant. (Recommendation 2)
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Bureau of Indian Education: Improved Oversight of Schools' COVID-19 Spending is Needed

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Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should establish controls to ensure that staff consistently follow agency standard procedures when schools and other BIE grantees do not submit timely single audit reports. (Recommendation 1)
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Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should establish controls to ensure staff document their monitoring of high-risk schools' COVID spending and consistently report whether schools followed agency requirements for using these funds. (Recommendation 2)
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Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should update its strategic workforce plan to build its capacity to conduct all annual fiscal reviews of schools that are designated as high risk, as required by its policy. (Recommendation 3)
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Bureau of Indian Education The Director of BIE should work with BIA to establish controls to ensure that BIE staff responsible for monitoring purchase card activity at BIE-operated schools consistently use Interior's required monitoring tool and procedures. (Recommendation 4)
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Veterans Health Care: Improvements Needed in Patient Tracking for Non-Biological Implantable Medical Devices

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Veterans Health Administration The Under Secretary of Health should ensure VHA includes requirements in its policies that non-biological orthopedic implantable medical devices be effectively tracked to the patient level and ensure that VHA national-level offices have access to the information from the tracking systems for oversight. (Recommendation 1)
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Veterans Health Administration The Under Secretary of Health should undertake an assessment across all clinical specialties to identify where other gaps exist in its ability to effectively track non-biological implantable medical devices to individual patients and take actions to address any identified gaps. Such actions should include ensuring appropriate policies are in place, requiring the use of data systems for tracking, and ensuring that VHA national-level officials have access to the information from the tracking systems for oversight. Actions may also include identifying one program office with ultimate responsibility for implantable medical device oversight at the national level, which could be one of the national offices such as NCPS or an interdisciplinary team such as VHA's Biological Implant Tracking Integrated Project Team. (Recommendation 2)
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Military Readiness: Comprehensive Approach Needed to Address Service Member Fatigue and Manage Related Efforts

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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness conducts an assessment of DOD's oversight structure for fatigue-related efforts. This assessment should identify and delegate authority to an office with sufficient authority, sufficient staffing and resources, and committed leadership to act as a focal point for and oversee all DOD-wide fatigue-related efforts. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of the Air Force The Secretary of the Air Force should assign leadership responsible for DOD component head responsibilities related to fatigue listed in DOD Instruction 1010.10. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of the Army The Secretary of the Army should assign leadership responsible for DOD component head responsibilities related to fatigue listed in DOD Instruction 1010.10. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should assign Navy leadership responsible for DOD component head responsibilities related to fatigue listed in DOD Instruction 1010.10. (Recommendation 4)
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