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GAO: Additional Human Capital Flexibilities Are Needed
White Papers As an arm of the legislative branch, GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and ensure the accountability of the federal government for the American people.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
GAO's Proposed Human Capital Legislation: Views Of The Employee Advisory Council
White Papers The GAO employees are proud of their work assisting the Congress and federal agencies to make government operations more efficient and effective. Although all of the GAO employees agree that the agency is not perfect, the EAC believes GAO is making...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
SAS Supports National Preparedness And Homeland Security: New GAO Team Counts On SAS For Information Sharing
White Papers While this work primarily involves intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies, a new team within the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has formed to address the overall context of national preparedness.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
GAO RFID Spun Out Of GAO Tek To Focus On RFID Market
White Papers GAO RFID Inc.offers arguably the world's most extensive line of RFID tags, labels and readers which are suitable for any vertical markets. GAO's products are designed and manufactured with recognized industry standards relevant to RFID and its...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Information Technology Investment Management: An Overview Of GAO's Assessment Framework
White Papers Agency investments in information technology (IT) are critical in providing more effective and cost-efficient government services to the public. Annual federal spending on IT has grown to nearly $38 billion a year.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Information Technology Management: Improvements Needed In Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, And Investment Management Governmentwide
White Papers The GAO's January 2004 report indicates that the federal government can significantly improve its IT strategic planning, performance measurement, and investment management. This can be accomplished, in part, through the expeditious implementation...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
FBI Network Security Slammed
Blog The FBI has been given a dressing down by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) over its network security. In a report entitled "FBI Needs to Address Weaknesses in Critical Network", the GAO said that the FBI was not doing enough to guard...
[May 25, 2007, 15:58]
Performance Budgeting: States' Experiences Can Inform Federal Efforts
White Papers Performance measures and the reporting of program performance are regularly included in the budget processes of the five states GAO visited. GAO found that the continuing efforts to improve data collection and to relate this information to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
RFID Solutions For ID Badges And Access Control
White Papers GAO RFID implements a variety of solutions that solve the access control concerns of an organization. Innovative GAO solutions will help a company improve security and make employee activity tracking an easy and efficient task.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Internal Revenue Service: Status Of Recommendations From Financial Audits And Related Financial Management Reports
White Papers Each year, as part of the annual audit of IRS's financial statements, GAO not only makes recommendations to address any new weaknesses identified, but also follows up on the status of weaknesses GAO identified in previous years' audits.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Maturity: Version 2.0
White Papers The Government Accountability Office (GAO) created the EA Management Maturity Framework (EAMMF) based on the EA Practical Guide that measures how Enterprise Architectures are/are not addressing the root business/mission and IT gaps that the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Strategic Planning At The U.S. General Accounting Office
White Papers GAO embarked on a planning process that would satisfy criteria of the Government Performance and Results Act. Members and staff of Congress were involved heavily as GAO developed the plan, which .started and ended with Congress.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Making The Case For An Interoperable, Multi-Scale Hospital/Healthcare Knowledge Domain
White Papers General Accounting Office (GAO, 2003) recognizes the importance of a number of emerging information technologies that can be used to enhance the ability to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Federal Action Could Help Transit Authorities Address Security Challenges
White Papers The GAO has addressed the high costs of transit security and recommends in this report that the Secretary of the Department of Transportation pursue legislative changes to permit federal urbanized formula funds to be used for security-related...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Information Technology: A Framework For Assessing And Improving Enterprise Architecture Management (Version 1.1)
White Papers For over a decade, GAO has promoted the use of architectures, recognizing them as a crucial means to a challenging goal: agency operational structures that are optimally defined, in both business and technological environments.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Serving The Congress And The Nation: Strategic Plan 2002-2007
White Papers This paper updates GAO's strategic plan for serving Congress from fiscal year 2002-2007. Recognizing that Congress and the federal government will focus considerable effort and resources on homeland security, GAO is proposing to increasing its...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Human Capital: Building On The Current Momentum To Transform The Federal Government
White Papers This statement summarizes GAO's findings to date on agencies' use of human capital flexibilities, provides an overview of the most relevant human capital management efforts, and discusses GAO's recently enacted human capital flexibilities.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Preliminary Observations On Efforts To Improve Security At Nuclear Power Plants
White Papers GAO was asked to review Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) efforts since September 11, 2001, to improve security at nuclear power plants, including actions NRC has taken to implement some of GAO's September 2003 recommendations to improve...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Transportation Security: Post-September 11th Initiatives And Long-Term Challenges
White Papers This report responds to the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States for information on GAO's work in transportation security. The report is based on a body of work that GAO has performed over the years.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Overseas Presence: Systematic Processes Needed To Right Size Posts And Guide Embassy Construction
White Papers In this report, GAO discusses three reports, on rightsizing - that is, realigning the number and location of staff - at U.S.embassies and consulates.It examines the follow-on work to further test the framework developed by GAO the previous year...
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