Volume XX No.8: February 20, 2015
Alert! The Government Accountability Office – the non-partisan watchdog arm of Congress – has released its \”High Risk\” report. The report comes out every other year (at the beginning of each new Congress) and is meant to serve as a menu for policymaker oversight. An area is considered \”high risk\” because of \”greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement or the
need for transformation to address economy, efficiency, or effectiveness challenges.\”
The GAO concentrates on high-level issues that are particularly problematic and then track the issues over time. So while it has 32 areas of concentration, only two are new to the 2015 report (\”Managing Risks and Improving Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care\” and \”Improving the Management of Information Technology (IT) Acquisitions and Operations\”). They note \”Solid, steady progress has been made in the majority of the high-risk areas.\” But we’ll note, none of the areas listed in the 2013 report are gone.
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