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Health Care

Public Health: Leading Practices Could Help Guide HHS Reform Efforts to Address Risk and Improve Preparedness

GAO-23-106872

Published: Jun 07, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jun 07, 2023.
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Veterans

Veterans Employment: GI Bill Benefits Can Help Lead to Outdoor Recreation Careers

GAO-23-106149

Published: Jun 06, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jun 06, 2023.
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Budget and Spending

The Nation's Fiscal Health: Action Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable Debt Levels

GAO-23-106873

Published: Jun 06, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jun 06, 2023.
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National Defense

GPS Modernization: Space Force Should Reassess Requirements for Satellites and Handheld Devices

GAO-23-106018

Published: Jun 05, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jun 05, 2023.
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Government Operations

Audit Recommendations: Opportunities for Agencies to Improve GAO-IG Act Reports

GAO-23-106596

Published: Jun 05, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jun 05, 2023.
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Homeland Security

DNA Collections: CBP is Collecting Samples from Individuals in Custody, but Needs Better Data for Program Oversight [Reissued with revisions on Jun. 5, 2023]

GAO-23-106252

Published: May 24, 2023.

Publicly Released: Jun 05, 2023.

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Legal Decisions

Jun 06

ODL Services

We dismiss the protest.

B-421537,B-421537.2,B-421537.3

Jun 06

Kupono Government Services, LLC; Akima Systems Engineering, LLC

We sustain the protests.

B-421392.9,B-421392.10,B-421392.11,B-421392.12

Jun 05

Comprehensive Health Services, LLC

We deny the protest.

B-421108.4,B-421108.5

Jun 05

Department of the Interior, National Park Service—Availability of Appropriations for Nonmonetary Awards to Private Individuals

B-334711

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Communities Rely on Federal Grants, But May Have Challenges Accessing ...

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Federal funding through grants has a great impact on the...

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Fraud in Small Business COVID-19 Relief Programs

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Funding to support small businesses and their employees, who were...

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Freight Rail Safety—Potential Impacts of Longer Trains

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GAO Makes MedPAC Appointments

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

WASHINGTON, DC (May 31, 2023) – Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), today announced the appointment of three new...

GAO's Director of Strategic Issues Jeff Arkin Testifies to U S Senate on Federal Grants Management

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Gene L. Dodaro is the eighth Comptroller General of the United States and head of GAO. As Comptroller General, Mr. Dodaro leads GAO and helps oversee the hundreds of reports and testimonies that GAO provides each year to various committees and individual Members of Congress. The U.S. Comptroller General is appointed to a 15-year term.

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Public Health: Leading Practices Could Help Guide HHS Reform Efforts to Address Risk and Improve Preparedness

Veterans Employment: GI Bill Benefits Can Help Lead to Outdoor Recreation Careers

The Nation's Fiscal Health: Action Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable Debt Levels

GPS Modernization: Space Force Should Reassess Requirements for Satellites and Handheld Devices

Audit Recommendations: Opportunities for Agencies to Improve GAO-IG Act Reports

DNA Collections: CBP is Collecting Samples from Individuals in Custody, but Needs Better Data for Program Oversight [Reissued with revisions on Jun. 5, 2023]

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Fraud in Small Business COVID-19 Relief Programs

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GAO's Director of Strategic Issues Jeff Arkin Testifies to U S Senate on Federal Grants Management

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Public Health: Leading Practices Could Help Guide HHS Reform Efforts to Address Risk and Improve Preparedness

Veterans Employment: GI Bill Benefits Can Help Lead to Outdoor Recreation Careers

The Nation's Fiscal Health: Action Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable Debt Levels

GPS Modernization: Space Force Should Reassess Requirements for Satellites and Handheld Devices

Audit Recommendations: Opportunities for Agencies to Improve GAO-IG Act Reports

DNA Collections: CBP is Collecting Samples from Individuals in Custody, but Needs Better Data for Program Oversight [Reissued with revisions on Jun. 5, 2023]

Legal Decisions

Featured Topics

Recent News

Communities Rely on Federal Grants, But May Have Challenges Accessing ...

Fraud in Small Business COVID-19 Relief Programs

Social Security Reform

Freight Rail Safety—Potential Impacts of Longer Trains

GAO's Director of Strategic Issues Jeff Arkin Testifies to U S Senate on Federal Grants Management