Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment

This is an Acting Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the 18th Biennial Forum of Government Auditors in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2010. Major topics of this presentation include: threats confronting U.S. national security interests; fiscal sustainability and debt challenges; economic recovery and restored growth; the changing dynamics of global interdependence; advances in science and technology; increasing impact of networks and virtualization; shifting roles in government and governance; demographic and societal changes confronting young and old; and other new and ongoing work for GAO.