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Federal Facilities: Improved Oversight Needed for Security Recommendations
GAO-23-105649
May 08, 2023
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2 Open Recommendations
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency improves its oversight of security measures by modifying its compliance and verification process to assess the implementation of FPS's recommended countermeasures. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Homeland Security The Secretary of Homeland Security should ensure that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency improves its oversight of security measures by modifying its compliance and verification process to identify the recommendations for which agencies did not implement the recommended countermeasure and did not document the acceptance of the risk. (Recommendation 2)
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Personnel Practices: OPM Can Improve Oversight and Transparency of Agencies' Hiring of Political Appointees into Career Federal Positions
GAO-23-105066
Apr 27, 2023
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3 Open Recommendations
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Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should examine how the public information on political appointees OPM is mandated to provide under the PLUM Act can be used by agencies to better identify political appointees subject to OPM's pre-appointment reviews. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should complete the remaining steps needed to ensure that, consistent with proactive disclosure requirements, reports to Congress on agency requests to appoint current or recent political appointees to career positions are included on OPM's website with other frequently requested records. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of Personnel Management The Director of OPM should work with agencies to collect and disseminate information about the scope of its pre-appointment review authority, including information that identifies those agencies and positions that are not subject to OPM's authority. (Recommendation 3)
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U.S. Postal Service: Action Needed to Improve Credibility of Cost Assumptions for Next Generation Delivery Vehicles
GAO-23-106677
Apr 20, 2023
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2 Open Recommendations
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United States Postal Service The Director of Fleet Management should incorporate leading practices from GAO's Cost Guide into future updates of USPS's cost estimates for acquiring new delivery vehicles. These leading practices include conducting a sensitivity analysis, a risk and uncertainty analysis, cross-checks, and an independent cost estimate. (Recommendation 1)
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United States Postal Service The Director of Fleet Management should clearly explain the changes to cost assumptions, including reasons for the change and important methodological details used, in decision analysis reports requesting capital for vehicle orders placed in USPS's vehicle acquisition programs. (Recommendation 2)
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Government Performance Management: Actions Needed to Improve Transparency of Cross-Agency Priority Goals
GAO-23-106354
Apr 04, 2023
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5 Open Recommendations
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should develop guidance and procedures to ensure that CAP goals are updated or revised and made publicly available concurrently with the submission of the budget of the United States Government, made in the first full fiscal year following any year in which the term of the President commences. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should designate a CAP goal addressing IT management, which is responsive to ongoing government-wide challenges. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should designate a CAP goal addressing federal real property management, which is responsive to ongoing government-wide challenges. (Recommendation 3)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should ensure consistent quarterly public reporting of progress achieved toward implementing the current set of CAP goals throughout the 2022-2026 goal period. (Recommendation 4)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should develop guidance to ensure that the progress toward implementing the most recent CAP goals is publicly reported at the end of each 4-year goal period. (Recommendation 5)
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