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IT Dashboard: Selected Agencies’ Investment Ratings Fail to Fully Consider Risks
GAO-27-108416
Oct 07, 2026
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17 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Commerce The Secretary of Commerce should direct the department CIO to ensure, for any investment we identified with more risk, that their rating accurately reflects the ability of the investment to accomplish its goals. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Commerce The Secretary of Commerce should direct the department CIO to update their ratings in a timely manner consistent with their processes. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the department CIO to ensure, for any investment we identified with more risk, that their rating accurately reflects the ability of the investment to accomplish its goals. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct the department CIO to ensure, for any investment we identified with more risk, that their rating accurately reflects the ability of the investment to accomplish its goals. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct the department CIO to update their ratings in a timely manner consistent with their processes. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct the department CIO to update their policies and procedures for their ratings to be reported at least as frequently as required in OMB's guidance. (Recommendation 6)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

IT Systems Annual Assessment: DOD Should Improve IT Fraud Risk Management Practices
GAO-26-108596
Sep 28, 2026
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should direct the Chief Information Officer, in collaboration with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), to ensure that major IT business programs promote and sustain an anti-fraud tone that permeates the program's organizational culture through training focused on increasing awareness of fraud and fraud risk, recognition of fraud risks in relevant functional settings, and awareness of fraud risk assessment activities. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

VA Software Asset Management: Adherence to Leading Management Practices Needed to Achieve Intended Outcomes
GAO-26-108641
Jul 22, 2026
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18 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the department's CIO to ensure that the Office of Information and Technology updates the eSAM program charter to identify (1) the program's components (e.g., IT projects); (2) the approach for realizing the program's benefits; (3) how the program is to manage interdependencies among the outputs of its components; (4) how the program's goals and objectives align with VA's strategic objectives; and (5) program assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the department's CIO to ensure that the Office of Information and Technology updates (as necessary) and finalizes the draft eSAM program management plans and program roadmap. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the department's CIO to ensure that the Office of Information and Technology establishes a stakeholder register for the eSAM program and regularly reviews, updates, and analyzes the register as the program progresses. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the department's CIO to ensure that the Office of Information and Technology develops a detailed strategy and guidelines for stakeholder engagement on the eSAM program, including how it plans to reach agreement with stakeholders on program requirements, and shares the strategy, guidelines, and other relevant program information with stakeholders to establish common, high-level expectations for the delivery of program benefits. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the department's CIO to ensure that the Office of Information and Technology requires the eSAM program to log or document its engagement with stakeholders and track stakeholder issues and concerns to help the entire program team understand stakeholder feedback. The CIO should also require the eSAM program to document this requirement in a finalized stakeholder management plan. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the department's CIO to ensure that the Office of Information and Technology establishes a baseline cost estimate for the eSAM program. (Recommendation 6)
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Federal Research: Agencies Should Better Manage Anticipated Publishing Cost Increases Amid Shift to Public Access
GAO-26-107738
May 21, 2026
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11 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
National Science Foundation The Director of NSF, in finalizing the public access policy, should ensure that the policy addresses: (1) the prerequisites needed to make publications publicly available by default, (2) use or re-use rights, and (3) which restrictions, such as attribution, apply to publicly accessible scholarly publications funded by the agency. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Agriculture The Secretary of Agriculture, in finalizing the agency's public access policy, should ensure that the policy addresses use or re-use rights for its funded scholarly publications. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should conduct an analysis of how the agency's research efforts and budget may be affected by expected expenditure increases resulting from its December 2024 public access plan and update the plan as appropriate. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy should conduct an analysis of how the agency's research efforts and budget may be affected by expected expenditure increases resulting from its October 2024 public access policy and update the policy as appropriate. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should conduct an analysis of how the agency's research efforts and budget may be affected by expected expenditure increases resulting from its forthcoming public access policy and update the policy as appropriate. (Recommendation 5)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration The Administrator of NASA should conduct an analysis of how the agency's research efforts and budget may be affected by expected expenditure increases resulting from its November 2024 public access plan and update the plan as appropriate. (Recommendation 6)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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