Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment

This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the American Bar Association in Chicago, IL, on August 4, 2012. Major topics of this presentation include: threats confronting U.S. national security interests, fiscal sustainability and debt challenges, annual report on duplication, overlap, and fragmentation, economic recovery and restored growth, shifting roles in government and governance, and GAO's role in evaluating the implementation of the Modernization Act.