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Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Effective Use of Billions in Funding for Modernization Efforts
GAO-26-109215
Jun 30, 2026
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2 Open Recommendations
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United States Coast Guard The Commandant of the Coast Guard should update the service's foundational modernization documents as necessary to ensure strategic alignment with Coast Guard missions, desired outcomes, and measurable targets for each area of reform emphasis—organization, people, technology, and contracting and acquisition. (Recommendation 1)
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United States Coast Guard The Commandant of the Coast Guard should develop an evaluation plan with mechanisms for assessing the effectiveness of reform actions for each area of reform emphasis—organization, people, technology, and contracting and acquisition. (Recommendation 2)
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Government Performance Management: OMB and Selected Agencies Need to Fully Address New Requirements
GAO-26-108516
Jun 23, 2026
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should revise its guidance for agency strategic reviews to fully address all statutory requirements related to senior leaders and stakeholders. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should revise its guidance for agency strategic reviews to fully address the statutory requirement for agencies to annually report on results. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the department conducts a strategic review in 2026, as required. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should develop process documentation to ensure that annual strategic reviews address all statutory requirements. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should revise its process documentation for agency strategic reviews to ensure it addresses all statutory requirements. This includes (1) identifying roles and responsibilities for specific agency officials, and (2) coordinating with relevant external personnel. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should revise its process documentation for agency strategic reviews to ensure it addresses all statutory requirements. This includes (1) coordinating with relevant external personnel, and (2) reporting results in an annual performance report. (Recommendation 6)
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Cloud Computing: Federal Government Needs to Address Procurement Challenges
GAO-26-107530
Jun 23, 2026
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5 Open Recommendations
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General Services Administration The Administrator of General Services, as the Executive Agent in charge of all government-wide IT acquisition contracts, should require agencies to use FinOps practices and report the extent of benefits resulting from the use of the practices. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should direct the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to issue additional SBOM implementation guidance to agencies. This should include information on how agencies should integrate SBOM generation, consumption, and analysis into their risk management, purchasing, and software development practices, and how to leverage tools where appropriate. (Recommendation 2)
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Chief Information Officers Council The Federal CIO Council, working with its chair, the Office of Management and Budget's Deputy Director for Management, should collect and share examples of leading practices in the federal government on multi-vendor cloud solutions, including containerization and testing platform interoperability. (Recommendation 3)
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Congress Congress should consider: 1) updating the statutory definitions of commercial products and commercial services, and (2) requiring acquisition regulations be updated to reflect these definitions. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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Congress Congress should consider requiring acquisition regulations be updated to (1) define information technology to be consistent with the definition in FITARA and (2) define the term cloud computing to be consistent with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's definition. (Matter for Consideration 2)
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Federal Data: Congressional Action Needed to Improve Interoperability of Award and Payment Eligibility Data
GAO-26-107466
Jun 16, 2026
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1 Open Recommendations
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Congress Congress should consider assigning Treasury explicit authority to lead, in coordination with the CDO Council and in consultation with OMB—and others, as needed—the development and implementation of government-wide data standards and interoperability requirements, including data definitions, dictionaries, validation rules, and disclosures, for recipient eligibility data sources, including relevant financial, award, spending, and payment data needed to support eligibility determinations throughout the award life cycle. (Matter for Consideration 1)
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