BORDER SECURITY
3,287円 DHS has employed a variety of technology, tactical infrastructure, and personnel assets to help secure the nearly 2,000 mile long southwest border. Since 2009, GAO has issued over 35 products on the progress and challenges DHS has faced in using technology, infrastructure, and other resources to ...
FOOD SAFETY AND NUTRITION
3,287円 FDA is responsible for overseeing the safety of about 80 percent of the nation’s food supply and for promoting good nutrition. Federal oversight of food safety has been on GAO’s highrisk list since 2007. According to FDA, FSMA aims to improve food safety by shifting FDA’s focus toward preventing ...
PHYSICAL SECURITY
3,287円 NIST is the United States’ national physical laboratory, which among other matters is responsible for developing measurement standards. In 2017, NIST, located within Commerce, employed approximately 3,500 federal personnel and hosted about 4,000 associates, who include guest researchers and facil...
MILITARY HOUSING PRIVATIZATION
3,287円 In 1996 Congress provided DOD with authorities enabling it to obtain private-sector financing and management to repair, renovate, construct, and operate military housing. DOD has since privatized 99 percent of its domestic housing...
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
3,287円 I am pleased to be here to discuss the results of our review of U.S. agencies’ efforts to address changes in the market for counterfeit goods and their work with the private sector. Intellectual property is an important component of the U.S. economy, and the United States is an acknowledged globa...
WORKPLACE RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS
3,287円 Saving for retirement can be difficult. However, when participants lose their workplace retirement accounts when they change employers or participate in a workplace retirement plan abroad they can encounter additional challenges in securing adequate retirement savings. GAO was asked to review ste...
Islamic Macroeconomics
8,290円 Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries. An Islamic model advocates a limited governm...
HOMEOWNERSHIP
3,287円 The federal government has a number of programs to help increase access to affordable homeownership for first-time buyers and lower-income households, including programs that provide guarantees for certain types of mortgages and funding that can be used for down-payment assistance. Generally, hom...
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
3,287円 DOE’s NNSA is responsible for managing the nuclear weapons stockpile and supporting nuclear nonproliferation efforts. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management works to decontaminate and decommission facilities contaminated from decades of nuclear weapons production...
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE LENDING
3,287円 In 2006, federal banking regulators jointly issued guidance that described their expectations for sound risk management practices for banks with CRE concentrations. The guidance includes two CRE thresholds that regulators use to identify banks that are potentially exposed to significant CRE conce...
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
3,287円 The federal government plans to invest almost $96 billion in IT in fiscal year 2018. Historically, these investments have too often failed, incurred cost overruns and schedule slippages, or contributed little to mission-related outcomes. In December 2014, Congress and the President enacted FITARA...
FEDERAL RULEMAKING
3,287円 The Presidential Transitions Improvements Act of 2015 includes a provision for GAO to assess multiple characteristics of final significant regulatory actions promulgated by executive departments during presidential transition periods (September 23 through January 20) at the end of Presidents Clin...
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