Overview We have made about 335 recommendations in public reports since 2010 with respect to establishing a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy and performing oversight. Until these are fully implemented, federal agencies will be more limited in their ability to protect private and sensitive data entrusted...
What GAO Found The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) oversees high-risk research involving potential pandemic pathogens, which are defined as likely highly transmissible and virulent, and capable of causing significant morbidity or mortality. SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease, is...
What GAO Found In each year from 2014 to 2018, about half of all large corporations had no federal income tax liability. For the purposes of this report, GAO considers “large corporations” to be those that filed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Schedule M-3. This form is required for corporations with...
What GAO Found In 2016, the Department of Education created its Student Aid Enforcement Unit, which included a new Investigations Group. Since then, the agency has made several changes to the way it enforces the prohibition against colleges engaging in substantial misrepresentation. Substantial misrepresentation...
What GAO Found Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is a long-term effort to connect military assets across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains. The Department of Defense (DOD) intends for JADC2 to analyze warfighting data across all of those domains to allow decision makers to identify,...
What GAO Found The Navy plans to deliver the first, or lead, Columbia class submarine—the largest and most complex submarine in its history—more quickly than it did for the lead submarines of prior classes, such as the Virginia class program. But the shipbuilder has not conducted a schedule risk...
What GAO Found Considered together, measures and estimates indicate substantial levels of fraud and potential fraud in unemployment insurance (UI) programs during the pandemic. However, each measure and estimate has strengths and limitations, and none completely and reliably indicates the extent of fraud...
What GAO Found The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to establish the ability to produce 80 plutonium pits—the central core of a nuclear weapon—per year at two sites. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, plans to produce 30 pits per year rely on a broad range of program activities,...
What GAO Found The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) updated its process for scheduling specialty care appointments in 2020. This included both appointments at VHA facilities and with providers in the community. Under VHA's updated process, referral coordination teams at each VA medical center review...
What GAO Found The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is responsible for administering the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program. OPM has taken steps to enable a process for employing offices and FEHB carriers to identify and remove ineligible FEHB members. For example, OPM amended its regulations...