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Bureau of Prisons: Strategic Approach Needed to Prevent and Address Employee Misconduct
GAO-25-107339
Sep 29, 2025
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8 Open Recommendations
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should revise BOP's program statement on investigative policy to correctly cite Kalkines v. United States as the applicable legal decision for the administrative warning that OIA conveys before conducting compelled interviews. (Recommendation 1)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should develop and implement a communication strategy that fully informs incarcerated individuals about employee misconduct offenses that affect their health and safety. (Recommendation 2)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should (a) develop a routine and systematic approach for sharing employee feedback specific to the Standards of Employee Conduct training with regional and central offices and (b) use this feedback to help improve its design, delivery, and overall effectiveness. (Recommendation 3)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should develop and implement an approach to routinely and fully assess employee misconduct data, identify trends across more than 2 years and within and across facilities, and identify any challenge areas to help focus efforts to prevent and address employee misconduct. (Recommendation 4)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP, after implementing routine assessments of employee misconduct data, should implement targeted approaches to address the identified trends and challenge areas in employee misconduct. (Recommendation 5)
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Bureau of Prisons The Director of BOP should document and implement a comprehensive plan that establishes responsibilities, measurable goals, and milestones for investigating and disciplining employee misconduct cases to ensure accountability for meeting those goals. (Recommendation 6)
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Forest Service: Next Steps Are Uncertain for Improving Communications for Wildland Firefighters and Tracking Their Locations
GAO-25-107905
Sep 25, 2025
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1 Open Recommendations
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Department of Agriculture The Secretary of Agriculture should ensure that the Chief of the Forest Service—in coordination with the Department of the Interior and other firefighting agencies, as needed—develops a comprehensive strategic plan to improve its wildland firefighter communications, tracking, and mapping capabilities.
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Social Security Administration: Actions Needed to Address IT Acquisition Workforce Challenges
GAO-25-107437
Sep 15, 2025
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3 Open Recommendations
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Social Security Administration The SSA Commissioner should ensure that the Senior Procurement Executive assesses and documents IT contracting officers' staffing needs based on quality workload information, such as the quantity and complexity of individual workloads. (Recommendation 1)
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Social Security Administration The SSA Commissioner should ensure that the Senior Procurement Executive develops and implements a training plan that addresses acquisitions-related competency gaps identified for IT contracting officers. (Recommendation 2)
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Social Security Administration The SSA Commissioner should ensure that the Chief Information Officer assesses and documents IT contracting officer's representatives' staffing needs based on quality workload information, such as the quantity and complexity of individual workloads. (Recommendation 3)
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Cyber Workforce: Actions Needed to Improve Size and Cost Data
GAO-25-107405
Sep 04, 2025
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4 Open Recommendations
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Office of the National Cyber Director The National Cyber Director, in collaboration with OMB and other federal agencies as appropriate, should expeditiously take steps to address gaps in cyber workforce size and cost data used by agency-level CIOs and CHCOs. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of the National Cyber Director The National Cyber Director, in collaboration with OMB and other federal agencies as appropriate, should expeditiously take steps to address the lack of documented quality assurance processes in cyber workforce data used by agency-level CIOs and CHCOs. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of the National Cyber Director The National Cyber Director, in collaboration with OMB and other federal agencies as appropriate, should expeditiously take steps to address variances in identifying cyber personnel in cyber workforce data used by agency-level CIOs and CHCOs. (Recommendation 3)
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Office of the National Cyber Director The National Cyber Director, in collaboration with OMB and other entities as appropriate, should direct federal agencies to assess the effectiveness of agency-specific cyber workforce initiatives using costs, benefits, performance, and other relevant metrics. (Recommendation 4)
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