Reports and Testimonies |
Business, Industry, and Consumers
- Reverse Mortgages: Product Complexity and Consumer Protection Issues Underscore Need for Improved Controls over Counseling for Borrowers
- GAO-09-606, June 29, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 80 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Reverse Mortgages: Product Complexity and Consumer Protection Issues Underscore Need for Improved Controls over Counseling for Borrowers
- GAO-09-812T, June 29, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 18 pages) Accessible Text
- Telecommunications: Preliminary Observations about Consumer Satisfaction and Problems with Wireless Phone Service and FCC's Efforts to Assist Consumers with Complaints
- GAO-09-800T, June 17, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 22 pages) Accessible Text
Civil Rights
- New Markets Tax Credit: Minority Entities Are Less Successful in Obtaining Awards Than Non-Minority Entities
- GAO-09-795T, June 18, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 15 pages) Accessible Text
- Voters With Disabilities: More Polling Places Had No Potential Impediments Than in 2000, but Challenges Remain
- GAO-09-685, June 10, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 47 pages) Accessible Text
Economic Development
- Hurricanes Gustav and Ike Disaster Assistance: FEMA Strengthened Its Fraud Prevention Controls, but Customer Service Needs Improvement
- GAO-09-671, June 19, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 25 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Energy
- Technology Transfer: Clearer Priorities and Greater Use of Innovative Approaches Could Increase the Effectiveness of Technology Transfer at Department of Energy Laboratories
- GAO-09-548, June 16, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 54 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Energy Markets: Estimates of the Effects of Mergers and Market Concentration on Wholesale Gasoline Prices
- GAO-09-659, June 12, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 70 pages) Accessible Text
Environmental Protection
- EPA Chemical Assessments: Process Reforms Offer the Potential to Address Key Problems
- GAO-09-774T, June 11, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 13 pages) Accessible Text
- Environmental Contamination: Lessons Learned from the Cleanup of Formerly Used Defense and Military Munitions Sites
- GAO-09-779T, June 10, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 21 pages) Accessible Text
- Scientific Integrity: EPA's Efforts to Enhance the Credibility and Transparency of Its Scientific Processes
- GAO-09-773T, June 9, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 17 pages) Accessible Text
- Aviation and Climate Change: Aircraft Emissions Expected to Grow, but Technological and Operational Improvements and Government Policies Can Help Control Emissions
- GAO-09-554, June 8, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 100 pages) Accessible Text
Financial Institutions
- Troubled Asset Relief Program: Capital Purchase Program Transactions for October 28, 2008, through May 29, 2009, and Information on Financial Agency Agreements, Contracts, Blanket Purchase Agreements, and Interagency Agreements Awarded as of June 1, 2009 (GAO-09-707SP, June 2009), an e-supplement to GAO-09-658
- GAO-09-707SP, June 17, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (HTML)
- Troubled Asset Relief Program: June 2009 Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues
- GAO-09-658, June 17, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 117 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Government Operations
- Human Capital: Actions Needed to Better Track and Provide Timely and Accurate Compensation and Medical Benefits to Deployed Federal Civilians
- GAO-09-562, June 26, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 87 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Contract Management: Minimal Compliance with New Safeguards for Time-and-Materials Contracts for Commercial Services and Safeguards Have Not Been Applied to GSA Schedules Program
- GAO-09-579, June 24, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 47 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Identity Theft: Governments Have Acted to Protect Personally Identifiable Information, but Vulnerabilities Remain
- GAO-09-759T, June 17, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 24 pages) Accessible Text
- Federal Energy and Fleet Management: Plug-in Vehicles Offer Potential Benefits, but High Costs and Limited Information Could Hinder Integration into the Federal Fleet
- GAO-09-493, June 9, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 53 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Health
- Federal Tort Claims Act: Information Related to Implications of Extending Coverage to Volunteers at HRSA-Funded Health Centers
- GAO-09-693R, June 24, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 17 pages) Accessible Text
- Prescription Drugs: Overview of Approaches to Control Prescription Drug Spending in Federal Programs
- GAO-09-819T, June 24, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 16 pages) Accessible Text
- Medical Devices: Shortcomings in FDA's Premarket Review, Postmarket Surveillance, and Inspections of Device Manufacturing Establishments
- GAO-09-370T, June 18, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 22 pages) Accessible Text
- Influenza Pandemic: Greater Agency Accountability Needed to Protect Federal Workers in the Event of a Pandemic
- GAO-09-783T, June 16, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 18 pages) Accessible Text
- Influenza Pandemic: Increased Agency Accountability Could Help Protect Federal Employees Serving the Public in the Event of a Pandemic
- GAO-09-404, June 12, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 48 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Homeland Security
- Urban Area Security Initiative: FEMA Lacks Measures to Assess How Regional Collaboration Efforts Build Preparedness Capabilities
- GAO-09-651, July 2, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 46 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Critical Infrastructure Protection Cost-Benefit Report
- GAO-09-654R, June 26, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 12 pages) Accessible Text
- Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Lessons Learned from DHS Testing of Advanced Radiation Detection Portal Monitors
- GAO-09-804T, June 25, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 19 pages) Accessible Text
- Coast Guard: Observations on the Genesis and Progress of the Service's Modernization Program
- GAO-09-530R, June 24, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 32 pages) Accessible Text
- CBP Could Improve Its Estimation of Funding Needed for New Border Patrol Agents
- GAO-09-542R, June 15, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 37 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Coast Guard: Administrative Law Judge Program Contains Elements Designed to Foster Judges' Independence and Mariner Protections Assessed Are Being Followed
- GAO-09-489, June 12, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 56 pages) Accessible Text
Housing
- Public Housing: HUD's Oversight of Housing Agencies Should Focus More on Inappropriate Use of Program Funds
- GAO-09-33, June 11, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 34 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Information Management
- Federal Information Security Issues
- GAO-09-817R, June 30, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 7 pages) Accessible Text
- Cybersecurity: Continued Federal Efforts Are Needed to Protect Critical Systems and Information
- GAO-09-835T, June 25, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 24 pages) Accessible Text
International Affairs
- Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges
- GAO-09-781T, June 19, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 10 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Firearms Trafficking: U.S. Efforts to Combat Arms Trafficking to Mexico Face Planning and Coordination Challenges
- GAO-09-709, June 18, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 83 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- International Trade: Observations on U.S. Government Efforts to Address Textile Transshipment
- GAO-09-813T, June 18, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 11 pages) Accessible Text
- U.S. and Canadian Governments Have Established Mechanisms to Monitor Compliance with the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement but Face Operational Challenges
- GAO-09-764R, June 18, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 23 pages) Accessible Text
- Broadcasting to Cuba: Observations Regarding TV Marti's Strategy and Operations
- GAO-09-758T, June 17, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 11 pages) Accessible Text
Justice and Law Enforcement
- Corporate Crime: Preliminary Observations on DOJ's Use and Oversight of Deferred Prosecution and Non-Prosecution Agreements
- GAO-09-636T, June 25, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 35 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Federal Bankruptcy Judges: Measuring Judges' Case-Related Workload
- GAO-09-808T, June 16, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 20 pages) Accessible Text
National Defense
- Defense Travel System: Implementation Challenges Remain
- GAO-09-577, June 30, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 45 pages) Accessible Text
- Defense Logistics: Information on the Test and Evaluation and Assignment and Cancellation of National Stock Numbers as It Relates to MILITEC-1
- GAO-09-735R, June 25, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 24 pages) Accessible Text
- Human Capital: Continued Monitoring of Internal Safeguards and an Action Plan to Address Employee Concerns Could Improve Implementation of the National Security Personnel System
- GAO-09-840, June 25, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 22 pages) Accessible Text
- Military Personnel: Reserve Component Servicemembers on Average Earn More Income while Activated
- GAO-09-688R, June 23, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 43 pages) Accessible Text
- V-22 Osprey Aircraft: Assessments Needed to Address Operational and Cost Concerns to Define Future Investments
- GAO-09-692T, June 23, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 17 pages) Accessible Text
- Military Training: DOD Needs a Strategic Plan and Better Inventory and Requirements Data to Guide Development of Language Skills and Regional Proficiency
- GAO-09-568, June 19, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 30 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Military Pay: The Defense Finance and Accounting Service--Indianapolis Could Improve Control Activities over Its Processing of Active Duty Army Military Personnel Federal Payroll Taxes
- GAO-09-557R, June 18, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 18 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Defense Acquisitions: Issues to be Considered for Army's Modernization of Combat Systems
- GAO-09-793T, June 16, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 18 pages) Accessible Text
- Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs to Improve Oversight of Relocatable Facilities and Develop a Strategy for Managing Their Use across the Military Services
- GAO-09-585, June 12, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 37 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Army Working Capital Fund: Actions Needed to Improve Budgeting for Carryover at Army Ordnance
- GAO-09-415, June 10, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 31 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Natural Resources
- Army Corps of Engineers: Recent Changes Have Reduced the Use of Continuing Contracts, but Management Processes Need to Be Improved
- GAO-09-552, June 22, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 29 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Federal Land Management: BLM and the Forest Service Have Improved Oversight of the Land Exchange Process, but Additional Actions Are Needed
- GAO-09-611, June 12, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 126 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Science, Space, and Technology
- Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making
- GAO-09-564, June 17, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 52 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- Polar-Orbiting Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making
- GAO-09-772T, June 17, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 14 pages) Accessible Text
- NASA: Commercial Partners Are Making Progress, but Face Aggressive Schedules to Demonstrate Critical Space Station Cargo Transport Capabilities
- GAO-09-618, June 16, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 41 pages) Accessible Text
Tax Policy and Administration
- Internal Revenue Service: Status of GAO Financial Audit and Related Financial Management Report Recommendations
- GAO-09-514, June 25, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 98 pages) Accessible Text
- Management Report: Improvements Are Needed to Enhance IRS's Internal Controls and Operating Effectiveness
- GAO-09-513R, June 24, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 38 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Transportation
- Recovery Act: The Department of Transportation Followed Key Federal Requirements in Developing Selection Criteria for Its Supplemental Discretionary Grants Program
- GAO-09-785R, June 30, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 9 pages) Accessible Text
- Highway Trust Fund: Options for Improving Sustainability and Mechanisms to Manage Solvency
- GAO-09-845T, June 25, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 18 pages) Accessible Text
- Aviation Safety: Better Data and Targeted FAA Efforts Needed to Identify and Address Safety Issues of Small Air Cargo Carriers
- GAO-09-614, June 24, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 60 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
- High Speed Passenger Rail: Effectively Using Recovery Act Funds for High Speed Rail Projects
- GAO-09-786T, June 23, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 7 pages) Accessible Text
- International Aviation: Federal Efforts Help Address Safety Challenges in Africa, but Could Benefit from Reassessment and Better Coordination
- GAO-09-498, June 16, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 43 pages) Accessible Text Recommendations (HTML)
Veterans Affairs
- Veterans Affairs: Implementation of Temporary Residence Adaptation Grants
- GAO-09-637R, June 15, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 11 pages) Accessible Text
- VA Real Property: VA Emphasizes Enhanced-Use Leases to Manage Its Real Property Portfolio
- GAO-09-776T, June 10, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 12 pages) Accessible Text
- VA Health Care: Overview of VA's Capital Asset Management
- GAO-09-686T, June 9, 2009
- Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 17 pages) Accessible Text