What GAO Found Mission capable rates—a metric used to assess the health and readiness of an aircraft fleet—and other related maintenance metrics trends have worsened since fiscal year 2015 for eight selected aircraft (see figure). Average Mission Capable Rates, by Percentage, for Selected Air Force...
What GAO Found Since 2006, multiple federal laws have mandated that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) take steps to improve the nation's situational awareness of threats related to public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, HHS was required to establish a...
What GAO Found U.S. critical infrastructure (such as utilities, financial services, and pipelines) faces increasing cybersecurity risks. Understanding these risks and associated vulnerabilities, threats, and impacts is essential to protecting critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities, Threats,...
What GAO Found The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's (OCC) activities to oversee banks' compliance with fair lending laws include the following: assessments of banks' risk of violating fair lending laws in every examination cycle for all of OCC's supervised banks that engage in retail lending...
What GAO Found The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) continues to build components of the Missile Defense System (MDS), test its capabilities, and plan for countering evolving threats. In fiscal year 2021, MDA made progress, but continued to fall short of its goals for asset deliveries and testing. For example,...
What GAO Found Continuing a recent trend, NASA's portfolio of major projects experienced significant cost and schedule overruns and more projects were added (see figure). Of the 21 major projects in the development phase of NASA's acquisition process (which includes building and launching the system),...
What GAO Found Compared to a typical school year, teachers reported that more of their students started the 2020-21 school year behind and made less academic progress, according to GAO's generalizable survey of K-12 public school teachers. Teachers also reported that many students ended the year behind...
What GAO Found When the pandemic began, states faced historic demand and urgency to pay unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and their experiences implementing the new Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program varied. According to data reported to the Department of Labor (DOL), most states started...
What GAO Found GAO and others have reported that challenges with Unemployment Insurance (UI) administration have affected states' ability to effectively meet the needs of unemployed workers, both historically and during times of economic downturn—such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Reported challenges with...
What GAO Found For over 20 years, GAO has assessed the Department of Defense's (DOD) weapon programs and noted significant changes in its acquisition policies and practices. GAO's first assessment in 2003 highlighted challenges, such as committing billions of taxpayer dollars before obtaining key information,...