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The Government Accountability Office is located in the legislative branch of the federal government and is responsible for auditing, investigating, and otherwise evaluating the actions and processes of the government as a whole. Most importantly, the GAO investigates government spending of taxpayer dollars. The head of the GAO is called the Comptroller General of the United States and is appointed by the President to a 15-year term. The GAO begins investigations most commonly at the request of congressional committees or subcommittees. It also rules on protests filed by would-be federal contractors who believe agencies erred in administering the acquisition process.
NewsGAO: IRS website redesign plan needs work
The number of searches on the Internal Revenue Service's website was up significantly in the 2011 tax filing year, even though web traffic did not experience a similar spike, finds the Government Read more...
Critical infrastructure companies drowning in cybersecurity guidance, says GAO
The Homeland Security Department isn't doing enough to distill, promote and disseminate cybersecurity guidance to entities within the critical-infrastructure sectors DHS is required to assist under Read more...
GAO, CRS, CBO appropriations cut by omnibus
Several legislative branch agencies will take a budget cut in fiscal 2012. The Government Accountability Office, Congressional Research Service and the Congressional Budget Office will see a decrease Read more...
Security information sharing at TSA inconsistent, says GAO
The Transportation Security Administration has several programs for sharing security information, but the availability and quality of information needs improvement, according to a Nov. 21 Government Read more...
House appropriators encourage GPO privatization
The Government Printing Office is among several components facing major cuts under a legislative branch appropriations bill, H.R. 2551 (.pdf), which moved from the appropriations to Rules Committee Read more...
GAO: IRS tax avoidance enforcement limited by poor data
The Internal Revenue Service is falling short in its investigation of abusive tax avoidance transactions because of limited data, according to a Government Accountability Office report (.pdf) Read more...
DoD to issue improved guidance on technical data purchasing
Defense Department policies that address the acquisition of technical data remain ambiguous and difficult to implement, according to a Government Accountability Office report (.pdf) dated May 2011 Read more...
DOJ: Google Apps for Government lacked FISMA certification
Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) cloud-based Google Apps for Government is not certified and accredited under the Federal Information Security Management Act, according to a Justice Department brief (.pdf) Read more...
What ever happened to FedRAMP?
General Services Administration now has multiple working groups addressing the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and they are getting very close to resolving the issues that delayed Read more...
GAO: IRS has a ways to go before meeting e-file adoption goal
The Internal Revenue Service must resolve several issues if it hopes to reach its goal of having 80 percent of all major types of tax returns electronically filed by 2012, says the Government Read more...
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