Final List of Significant PMA/GPRA/Clinger-Cohen Act Publications

1 – 31 January, 2009 

ALERT #09-11 is a final list of various publications related to the PMA, GPRA, or Clinger-Cohen Act issued from 1 through 31 January 2009 that might interest you.  You can use it as a checklist of URLs in case you missed any of the documents.  This list below compiled for January-dated publications is deemed final for our purpose. We allow at least 30 days after the close of a monthly period to publish a Final list since many GAO and OMB publications are actually released later than the publication date shown on covers.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revised its way of showing some URLs, i.e. rather than the traditional blue underlining in every case, they may show “Full Report”, “Highlights”, or “Summary”.  To download your selection, just put your cursor on that selection and Microsoft Outlook will show “CTRL+click to follow link”. So simply press your CTRL key and click as instructed to bring up the document.

GAO Month in Review for January by Subject Categories, issued 6 February, www.gao.gov

KENNEDY SCHOOL “The Split-Personality CPO” by Bob Behn, http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/TheBehnReport Key Words: Chief Performance Officer

GAO Property Management:  NASA's Goal of Increasing Equipment Reutilization May Fall Short without Further Efforts.  GAO-09-187, January 30.http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-187 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09187high.pdf Key Words: Resources Management

GAO Highway Infrastructure: Federal Efforts to Strengthen Security Should Be Better Coordinated and Targeted on the Nation's Most Critical Highway Infrastructure.  GAO-09-57, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-57 Highlights – http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0957high.pdf Key Words: Program Management

GAO Debt Management: Treasury's Cash Management Challenges and Timing of Payments to Medicare Private Plans.  GAO-09-118, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-118 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09118high.pdf Key Words: Financial Management

GAO Immigration Enforcement:  Better Controls Needed over Program Authorizing State and Local Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws.  GAO-09-109, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-109 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09109high.pdf Key Words: Program Management

GAO Afghanistan Security:  Lack of Systemic Tracking Raises Significant Accountability Concerns about Weapons Provided to Afghan National Security Forces.  GAO-09-267, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-267 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09267high.pdf Key Words: Accountability Issue

GAO Issues Involving the Use of the Futures Markets to Invest in Commodity Indexes.  GAO-09-285R, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-285R Key Words: Regulatory Management, Financial

GAO Military Base Realignments and Closures:  DOD Faces Challenges in Implementing Recommendations on Time and Is Not Consistently Updating Savings Estimates.  GAO-09-217, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-217 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09217high.pdf Key Words: Program Management, BRAC

GAO Information Security:  Further Actions Needed to Address Risks to Bank Secrecy Act Data.  GAO-09-195, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-195 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09195high.pdf Key Words: Risk Management, Information Security

GAO Meal Counting and Claiming by Food Service Management Companies in the School Meals Programs.  GAO-09-156R, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-156R Key Words: Program Management

GAO Troubled Asset Relief Program:  Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues. GAO-09-296, January 30. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-296 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09296high.pdf Key Words: Transparency, Accountability

GAO Nuclear Detection:  Domestic Nuclear Detection Office Should Improve Planning to Better Address Gaps and Vulnerabilities.  GAO-09-257, January 29. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-257 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09257high.pdf Key Words: Project Planning, Program Management

GAO Dietary Supplements:  FDA Should Take Further Actions to Improve Oversight and Consumer Understanding.  GAO-09-250, January 29. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-250 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09250high.pdf Key Words: Regulatory Management

GAO Traumatic Brain Injury:  Better DOD and VA Oversight Can Help Ensure More Accurate, Consistent, and Timely Decisions for the Traumatic Injury Insurance Program.  GAO-09-108, January 29. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-108 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09108high.pdf Key Words: Program Management

GAO Secure Border Initiative Fence Construction Costs.  GAO-09-244R, January 29.

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-244R Key Words: Cost Analysis

IBM Performance Management Recommendations for the New Administration by Shelley Metzenbaum, www.businessofgovernment.org , January 28 Key Words: Performance Management

GAO U.S. Postal Service:  Deteriorating Postal Finances Require Aggressive Actions to Reduce Costs, by Phillip R. Herr, director, physical infrastructure, before the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.  GAO-09-332T, January 28. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-332T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09332thigh.pdf Key Words: Cost Analysis

GAO Electronic Health Records:  DOD's and VA's Sharing of Information Could Benefit from Improved Management.  GAO-09-268, January 28. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-268 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09268high.pdf Key Words: Information Sharing, Program Management

GAO Military Training:  Navy and Air Force Need to More Fully Apply Best Practices to Enhance Development and Management of Combat Skills Training.  GAO-09-220R, January 28. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-220R Key Words: Program Management, Best Practices

GAO Homeland Defense:  Actions Needed to Improve Management of Air Sovereignty Alert Operations to Protect U.S. Airspace.  GAO-09-184, January 27. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-184 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09184high.pdf Key Words: Program Management

GAO Whistleblower Protection Program:  Better Data and Improved Oversight Would Help Ensure Program Quality and Consistency.  GAO-09-106, January 27. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-106 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09106high.pdf Key Words: Program Management, Data

GAO Developing Countries:  The United States Has Not Fully Funded Its Share of Debt Relief, and the Impact of Debt Relief on Countries' Poverty-Reducing Spending Is Unknown.  GAO-09-162, January 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-162 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09162high.pdf Key Words: Program Management

GAO VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment: Better Incentives, Workforce Planning, and Performance Reporting Could Improve Program.  GAO-09-34, January 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-34 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0934high.pdf Key Words: Performance Reporting, Workforce Planning

GAO Update of State and Local Government Fiscal Pressures.  GAO-09-320R, January 26. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-320R Key Words: Inter-Governmental Relations, State/Local

GAO VA Health Care:  Long-Term Care Strategic Planning and Budgeting Need Improvement.  GAO-09-145, January 23. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-145 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09145high.pdf Key Words: Strategic Planning, Budgeting

GAO Federal User Fees:  Additional Analyses and Timely Reviews Could Improve Immigration and Naturalization User Fee Design and USCIS Operations.  GAO-09-180, January 23. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-180 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09180high.pdf Key Words: Program Management

GAO Immigration Application Fees:  Costing Methodology Improvements Would Provide More Reliable Basis for Setting Fees.  GAO-09-70, January 23. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-70 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0970high.pdf Key Words: Program Management, Cost Analysis

GAO Broadcasting to Cuba:  Actions Are Needed to Improve Strategy and Operations.   GAO-09-127, January 22. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-127 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09127high.pdf Key Words: Strategy, Operations

GAO High-Risk Series: An Update. GAO-09-271, January 2009 http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-271 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09271high.pdf Key Words: High-Risk Report

GAO Real Property:  Infrastructure Investment Presents Opportunities to Address Long-standing Real Property Backlogs and Reduce Energy Consumption, by Terrell G. Dorn, director, physical infrastructure, before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. GAO-09-324T, January 22. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-324T Key Words: Program Management

OMB NOTE: For FY 2009 the Benefits Report to Congress for the E-Gov Initiatives of the Bush Administration was submitted; download that report: • FY09 Report to Congress on the Benefits of the E-Government Initiatives Key Words: E-Gov

GAO Embassy Construction:  Additional Actions Are Needed to Address Contractor Participation.  GAO-09-48, January 16. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-48 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0948high.pdf  Related Product: New Embassy Construction: Structured Interviews with Construction Firms (GAO-09-47SP, January 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-48, January 16. [Internet Only] http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-47SP Key Words: Facilities Management

GAO Clean Air Act:  Historical Information on EPA's Process for Reviewing California Waiver Requests and Making Waiver Determinations.  GAO-09-249R, January 16. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-249R Key Words: Regulatory Management, Clean Air

GAO Citizens' Report:  Fiscal Year 2008 Summary of GAO's Performance and Financial Results.  GAO-09-2SP, January 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-2SP Key Words: GAO PAR – Citizens’ Report

GAO Medical Devices:  FDA Should Take Steps to Ensure That High-Risk Device Types Are Approved through the Most Stringent Premarket Review Process.  GAO-09-190, January 15.

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-190 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09190high.pdf Key Words: Regulatory Management

GAO Missouri River Navigation:  Data on Commodity Shipments for Four States Served by the Missouri River and Two States Served by Both the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.  GAO-09-224R, January 15. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-224R Key Words: Transportation Management

GAO Health Information Technology:  Federal Agencies' Experiences Demonstrate Challenges to Successful Implementation, by Valerie C. Melvin, director, human capital and management information systems issues, before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.  GAO-09-312T, January 15 http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-312T

Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09312thigh.pdf Key Words: Program Management, Health IT

GAO Aviation Security:  Federal Air Marshal Service Has Taken Actions to Fulfill Its Core Mission and Address Workforce Issues, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Workforce Survey.  GAO-09-273. January 14. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-273

Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09273high.pdf Key Words: Workforce Planning

GAO Defense Infrastructure:  Army's Approach for Acquiring Land Is Not Guided by Up-to-Date Strategic Plan or Always Communicated Effectively.  GAO-09-32, January 13.

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-32 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0932high.pdf Key Words: Strategic Plan, Acquisition

GAO Defense Infrastructure:  Additional Information Is Needed to Better Explain the Proposed 100,000-Acre Expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.  GAO-09-171, January 13.

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-171 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09171high.pdf Key Words: Infrastructure Management

CIO COUNCIL CURRENT STATE OF E-GOVERNMENT AND LOOK AHEAD TO 2009, Press Release, January 12, www.cio.gov Key Words: E-Gov

GAO Defense Inventory:  Army Needs to Evaluate Impact of Recent Actions to Improve Demand Forecasts for Spare Parts.  GAO-09-199, January 12. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-199 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09199high.pdf Key Words: Program Management, Evaluation

GAO Defense Logistics:  Lack of Key Information May Impede DOD's Ability to Improve Supply Chain Management. GAO-09-150, January 12. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-150 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09150high.pdf Key Words: Acquisition Management

GAO U.S. Postal Service:  Age and Disability Diversity in the Executive Service.  GAO-09-255R, January 12. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-255R Key Words: Human Capital, Diversity

GAO Social Security Administration:  Service Delivery Plan Needed to Address Baby Boom Retirement Challenges.  GAO-09-24, January 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-24

Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0924high.pdf Key Words: Program Management

GAO Aviation Security:  TSA's Cost and Performance Study of Private-Sector Airport Screening.  GAO-09-27R, January 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-27R Key Words: Cost and Performance

GAO Information Security:  Continued Efforts Needed to Address Significant Weaknesses at IRS.  GAO-09-136, January 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-136 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09136high.pdf Key Words: Information Security, IRS

GAO Social Security Disability:  Improving Notices to Denied Claimants.  GAO-09-183R, January 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-183R Key Words: Disability Claims Management

GAO Defense Business Transformation:  Status of Department of Defense Efforts to Develop a Management Approach to Guide Business Transformation.  GAO-09-272R, January 9.

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-272R Key Words: Transformation Management, DOD

OMB M-09-06, Implementation Guidance for the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (January 9, 2009) (12 pages, 113 kb) Key Words: Financial Management

 
OMB Improving the Accuracy and Integrity of Federal Payments, 2008 Final Report (January 8, 2009) (39 pages, 247 kb) Key Words: Federal Payments

GAO Financial Regulation:  A Framework for Crafting and Assessing Proposals to Modernize the Outdated U.S. Financial Regulatory System.  GAO-09-216, January 8. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-216 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09216high.pdf Key Words: Regulatory Management

OMB 2009 Federal Financial Management Report (January 7, 2009) (46 pages, 1.7 mb) Key Words: Financial Management