Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges

This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the University of Pittsburgh at the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Policy on December 4, 2014. Major topics of this presentation include: (1) threats confronting U.S. national security interests, (2) fiscal sustainability and debt challenges, (3) changing dynamics of global interdependence and multilateral cooperation, (4) science and technology trends, (5) advances in communications networks and information technologies, (6) shifting roles in governance and government, (7) demographic and societal changes.