High Risk List

Even the government’s main school marm gets a report card

GAO has a continuing list of recommendations for the Office of Management and Budget which it recently reiterated.

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(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining.  (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Exposed to COVID-19 on the job? New website lets you join class-action lawsuit for hazard pay

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Federal IT acquisition and security stuck on High Risk List

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Recruiting science and technology workforce on GAO’s High Risk List

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In this Oct. 31, 2018, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Matt Conn, a loadmaster with the 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., directs an Army HMMWV into a C-17 Globemaster III at Ft. Knox, Ky., to assist Department of Homeland Security along the southwest border. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has left no doubt his top priority as leader of the military is making it more “lethal” _ better at war and more prepared for it. And yet, nothing about the military’s new mission at the U.S.-Mexico border advances that goal.  (Airman First Class Daniel A. Hernandez/U.S. Air Force via AP)

DoD’s real estate issues no longer a ‘high risk’ area, GAO says

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Despite DHS leadership vacancies, GAO sees progress in risk areas

At the moment, the Department of Homeland Security has so many top management openings it looks like Swiss cheese.

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Gene Dodaro

Comptroller general talks high risk list, hiring and concerns around 2020 Census

For a couple of decades, the Government Accountability Office has published its biennial list of high-risk federal programs. To go deeper, Comptroller…

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GAO’s understatement amplifies risk list

Members of Congress may be rude, but the Government Accountability Office, the federal oversight agency, sticks to the facts.

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