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OPM Listed 10,540 Senior Posts. At Least 130 Senate-Confirmed Positions Were Missing.
The federal government's public roster of senior jobs looked substantial in July 2025: 10,540 positions across 171 entities. GAO compared that register with other official records and found at least 130 Senate-confirmed positions absent, along with at least seven federal…
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The Watchdogs' Watchdog Had 150 Days. Five Sampled Cases Took 427 to 1,246.
The committee charged with investigating senior federal watchdogs has a statutory clock and a chain of helpers. In five completed investigations examined by the Government Accountability Office, the clock ran at least 427 days. The helpers missed 37 of 90 monthly updates owed to…
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The Fed Found a 97% MFA Exemption. It Had No Central Exception List.
In one embedded IT group at the Federal Reserve Board, roughly 97% of users were exempt from phishing-resistant sign-in for certain applications. The Board enforced the stronger method elsewhere, but could not centrally track who was exempt, why or until when. The exception had…
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The Federal Reserve Board Drills for Disruption. Its Systems Lack Recovery Plans.
The Federal Reserve Board tests contingency arrangements twice a year. It keeps plans for its divisions. Yet the inspector general found no complete recovery plan for individual information systems, and the teams that rank business needs and restore technology do not have a rule…
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GSA’s File Scanner Had a 15 MB Blind Spot. Fourteen Exposed Files Were Bigger.
A federal agency shared 116 controlled files across its own Drive, then discovered that its detection regime had a size ceiling its managers did not know about. The sharper failure was institutional: no one owned the scanner’s vocabulary, its limits or the decision to share…
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NIH Met 14 Research-Security Rules. Its Disclosure Check Often Starts With a Tip
NIH had implemented 14 of 15 federal research-security requirements reviewed by government auditors. It also had an enterprise risk program that met every key consideration the auditors tested. Yet the agency that awarded about $35.3 billion for outside research in fiscal 2025…
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The IRS Built a Spending Watchdog. Its $4.5 Million Hub Skipped the Watchdogs.
The Procurement Hub was meant to tell the Treasury which contracts could go. Its own follow-on purchase arrived with no clear engineering milestones, limited market research and a full advance payment. Most users also bypassed the normal access request system. The IRS shut off…
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DHS Rejected ICE Camera Auto-Start. It Named No Other Activation Backstop.
A body camera can settle an argument only if it records the encounter. Federal auditors found ICE relies on people and supervisors to catch missed activation, while CBP already uses automatic triggers in some situations. Homeland Security cited real privacy hazards in rejecting…
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FEMA Took Its Disability-Response Course Offline. An Update Is Planned for 2027
The federal disaster agency had a course that local emergency managers could take when no storm was approaching. It taught how to include people with disabilities in preparation, response and recovery. FEMA removed it from its curriculum and website in 2025 for an internal…
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State Took Over Foreign Aid. More Than 4,000 Grants Had Two Statuses.
The State Department inherited the lead role in U.S. foreign assistance. Its main grants register gave more than 4,000 awards two answers to a basic question: active or terminated? The auditors could sort them out with extra fields. The department had not supplied a clean…
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Commerce Cut Two Weather Satellites. NOAA’s Spare May Retire Before the New One Is Ready
The United States plans to keep two geostationary weather satellites working and one waiting in orbit. The waiting one is projected to reach the end of its life in October 2032. Its successor is scheduled to launch that year, then needs months to become operational. Commerce…
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Congress Ordered a Contractor Owner File. GSA Waited for a Shrinking Source.
Five years after Congress directed federal overseers to see who benefits from major awards, the agency assigned to build the record was still waiting for a procurement rule. The ownership registry it hoped to reuse now exempts domestic companies, including most businesses…
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The FBI Wants Campus Tips. Fifty-Six Field Offices Have No Common Plan.
University research offices are supposed to call when sensitive work is at risk. A new GAO audit finds the FBI has campus contacts in every field office but no plan to strengthen the uneven relationships on which those calls depend.
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Congress Ordered a 60-Day Wait. The Mailroom Ate the Clock
A major federal rule can reach Capitol Hill and still arrive too late for the waiting period its authors put on the calendar. GAO found that 119 of 462 major rules issued from January 2021 through January 2025 carried effective dates inconsistent with the Congressional Review…
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Washington Counted Office Use. It Left the Vacant Space Out.
A federal office scorecard excluded space GSA controlled without a current tenant agreement. July records put that vacant category at 20.2 million square feet, and 72 partly vacant properties could cross the 60 percent line once the missing space enters the calculation.
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80 Hours for an $8,000 Water Grant. The Pipe Waited on Washington
One continuous water project can become three federal applications because a house on the route belongs to the wrong person under one agency's rule. GAO found Indian Health Service staff spending more than 80 hours helping a Tribe obtain an $8,000 grant to cover a funding gap.…
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The Pentagon Wants AI at Wartime Speed. Its Responsible-AI Office Had Three People.
A government audit found three of ten authorized positions filled in the central office charged with responsible AI. The cross-service council that could help those three solve shared problems had already gone quiet for months.
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ATOM Myanmar Changed Its Name. The Numbering Record Never Got the Memo.
ATOM Myanmar Changed Its Name. The Numbering Record Never Got the Memo. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow.…
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The Pentagon Has a $285 Billion Repair Backlog. Its Maintenance Watch Has Two Civil Servants
The military can price its aging estate to the dollar and still fail to tell Congress which broken pier, boiler or barracks deserves the next dollar. GAO found a headquarters office with two government employees responsible for overall maintenance guidance and oversight, while…
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Hanford Counted 2,734 Contractor Issues. Headquarters Could Not Explain Its Own List
The contractor, the federal field office and headquarters each keep an issue count for a nuclear cleanup mission. They measure different things. GAO's finding is more troubling than a missing subtraction: the people charged with risk-based oversight could not show how information…
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