NATIONAL SECURITY
3,287円 The Military Selective Service Act established the Selective Service System whose mission, among other things, is to be prepared to provide trained and untrained manpower to DOD in the event of a national emergency when directed by the President and the Congress. In the NDAA for FY 2017, Congress...
SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTING
3,287円 Federal regulations require that contracting officers assign the NAICS code that best describes the principal purpose of the acquisition. SBA’s OHA is responsible for reviewing appeals of NAICS code assignments. Questions have been raised about whether agencies assign the appropriate NAICS codes ...
MEDICAID
3,287円 GAO and others have identified insufficiencies in state-reported Medicaid data that affect CMS’s ability to oversee the program effectively. Recent increases in improper paymentsーestimated at $36.7 billion in fiscal year 2017ーexacerbate concerns about program oversight...
NUCLEAR SECURITY
3,287円 Thousands of shipments containing radiological material enter the United States each year through airports across the country. Radiological material is used in various medical and industrial applications, and possession requires a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) or one of the...
FEDERAL CRIMINAL RESTITUTION
3,287円 One of the goals of federal criminal restitution is to restore victims of federal crimes to the position they occupied before the crime was committed by providing compensation. Various entities within the federal government are involved in the process of requesting, ordering, and collecting resti...
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
3,287円 TSA is responsible for securing the nation’s transportation systems and uses security technologies to screen airline passengers and their luggage to prevent prohibited items from being carried on commercial aircraft. TSA has special authority for using OTAs, which are not subject to certain feder...
COLUMBIA CLASS SUBMARINE
3,287円 The Navy’s Columbia class ballistic missile submarines will replace the 14 Ohio class that currently provide the sea-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, slated to begin retiring in 2027. The first Columbia must begin patrols in 2031 to prevent a gap in deterrent capabilities; the class will ulti...
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
3,287円 The global terrorist threat to surface transportation – freight and passenger rail, mass transit, highway, maritime and pipeline systems – has increased in recent years, as demonstrated by the 2017 London vehicle attacks and a 2016 thwarted attack on mass transit in the New York area. TSA is the ...
OFFICE OF FINANCIAL RESEARCH
3,287円 In September 2014, the House Committee on Financial Services requested that GAO review OFR, an office within the Department of the Treasury. Among other things, GAO was asked to assess the agency’s usefulness to regulators and Congress in assessing systemic risk in the financial system and any de...
NASA
3,287円 Acquisition management has been a long-standing challenge at NASA, although GAO has reported on improvements the agency has made in recent years. Three space telescope projects are the key enablers for NASA to achieve its astrophysics’ science goals, which include seeking to understand the univer...
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID
3,287円 CMS, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides health coverage for over 145 million Americans through its four principal programs, with annual outlays of about $1.1 trillion. GAO has designated the two largest programs, Medicare and Medicaid, as high risk partly...
HIGHWAY AND TRANSIT PROJECTS
3,287円 Since 2005, over 30 provisions have been enacted in law to speed up the delivery of highway and transit projects, mainly by streamlining the NEPA review process. NEPA requires federal agencies to evaluate the potential environmental effects of proposed projects on the human environment. These pro...
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