The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and testimonies:
Reports 1. Employee Misclassification: Improved Coordination, Outreach, and Targeting Could Better Ensure Detection and Prevention. GAO-09-717, August 10. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-717 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09717high.pdf 2. Social Security Disability: Additional Performance Measures and Better Cost Estimates Could Help Improve SSA's Efforts to Eliminate Its Hearings Backlog. GAO-09-398, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-398 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09398high.pdf 3. Homeland Defense: U.S. Northern Command Has a Strong Exercise Program, but Involvement of Interagency Partners and States Can Be Improved. GAO-09-849, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-849 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09849high.pdf 4. Military Base Realignments and Closures: Transportation Impact of Personnel Increases Will Be Significant, but Long-Term Costs Are Uncertain and Direct Federal Support Is Limited. GAO-09-750, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-750 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09750high.pdf 5. Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Options Exist to Enhance Transportation Planning Capacity and Federal Oversight. GAO-09-868, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-868 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09868high.pdf Related Product: Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (GAO-09-867SP, September 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-868. GAO-09-867SP, September 9. [Internet only] http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-09-867sp/ 6. Wildland Fire Management: Federal Agencies Have Taken Important Steps Forward, but Additional, Strategic Action Is Needed to Capitalize on Those Steps. GAO-09-877, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-877 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09877high.pdf 7. Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, but Face Significant Challenges. GAO-09-761, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-761 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09761high.pdf 8. United States Merchant Marine Academy: Internal Control Weaknesses Resulted in Improper Sources and Uses of Funds; Some Corrective Actions Are Under Way. GAO-09-635, August 10. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-635 Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09635high.pdf Testimonies 1. Afghanistan and Pakistan: Oversight of U.S. Interagency Efforts, by Jacquelyn Williams-Bridgers, managing director, international affairs and trade, before the Subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-09-1015T, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-1015T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d091015thigh.pdf 2. Ryan White CARE Act: Program Changes Affecting Minority AIDS Initiative and Part D Grantees, by Marcia Crosse, director, health care, before the Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Energy and Commerce. GAO-09-1027T, September 9. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-1027T Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d091027thigh.pdf You'll find the most up-to-date listing of Reports and Testimonies at http://www.gao.gov. Help with viewing PDF files is available from the "Help" section of http://www.gao.gov. Check the information in the section titled, "Help with Reading Portable Document Format Files" if you have difficulty. Subscribe to this or other E-mail updates about GAO products at the "E-mail Updates" section of http://www.gao.gov. Remove yourself from this mailing list by sending an E-mail message to: [email protected] with the message: unsubscribe daybook in the message body. Information on ordering printed copies at: http://www.gao.gov/ordering.htm Members of the press may request copies from the Office of Public Affairs, 202-512-4800. =========================================================== This list is produced by the Government Accountability Office to provide daily information about GAO Reports and Testimonies. Visit GAO on the web at http://www.gao.gov
