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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-105652", "published": "2024-07-23T12:00:00Z", "released": "2024-07-23T08:00:00Z", "summary": "People rely on the nation's transportation system to access jobs and more. But the system doesn't serve everyone equally, e.g., those in remote areas. The Department of Transportation has a new strategic goal to reduce inequities and established 14 performance goals to assess progress. One such goal is to increase transit grants for rural or tribal areas. We compared these goals against selected federal performance...", "title": "Transportation Equity: DOT Could Improve Some Performance Goals to Better Assess Progress", "topics": ["Communities", "Aviation", "Disadvantaged business", "Performance plans", "Transportation", "Strategic goals", "Agency evaluations", "Performance management", "Performance measurement", "Performance goals"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105652", "versions": [{"title": "Highlights Page (1 page)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-105652-highlights.pdf"}, {"title": "Full Report (43 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-105652.pdf"}]}

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-106233", "published": "2024-07-23T12:00:00Z", "released": "2024-07-23T08:00:00Z", "summary": "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforces the nation's immigration laws by arresting, detaining, and removing noncitizens from the United States. We found that in its public reports, ICE understates the total number of people it detains. In its calculations, ICE excludes people who were first booked into certain temporary facilities before being transferred to immigration detention facilities for their time in detention. This exclusion amounts...", "title": "Immigration Enforcement: Arrests, Removals, and Detentions Varied Over Time and ICE Should Strengthen Data Reporting", "topics": ["Law courts", "Immigration detention", "Mental health", "Detention facilities", "Customs enforcement", "Immigrants", "Homeland security", "Immigration enforcement", "Homeland Security", "Immigration", "Arrests"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106233", "versions": [{"title": "Highlights Page (1 page)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-106233-highlights.pdf"}, {"title": "Full Report (61 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-106233.pdf"}]}

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-106687", "published": "2024-07-23T12:00:00Z", "released": "2024-07-23T08:00:00Z", "summary": "Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing renewable energy sources globally. Getting electricity from wind can have significant environmental and public health benefits. But the development of wind energy facilities could also change the landscape, affect wildlife, and have other negative environmental effects. In this Technology Assessment, we identified technologies and approaches to help address these effects across a wind facility's life cycle. But challenges...", "title": "Wind Energy: Technologies and Approaches to Help Address Environmental Effects", "topics": ["Recycling", "Wind energy", "Construction", "Electricity", "Animals", "Energy", "Environmental monitoring", "Renewable energy sources", "Manufacturing", "Environmental effects", "Data collection"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106687", "versions": [{"title": "Highlights Page (2 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-106687-highlights.pdf"}, {"title": "Full Report (43 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-106687.pdf"}]}

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-106858", "published": "2024-07-23T12:00:00Z", "released": "2024-07-23T08:00:00Z", "summary": "The Department of Veterans Affairs relies on a decades-old financial management system to help administer its veterans' benefit programs\u2014including pensions, health care, and disability compensation. Since 1998, VA has been working on a replacement system. This Q&A report covers the system's rollout. VA has followed most leading practices. But the system continues to be delayed and costs have increased. Plus, VA doesn't have specific, detailed...", "title": "Financial Management Systems: VA Should Improve Its Risk Response Plans", "topics": ["Financial management systems", "Veterans affairs", "Auditing and Financial Management", "Cost estimates", "Business systems modernization", "Risk management", "Supply chain management", "Life cycle costs", "Business transformation", "Financial management", "Best practices"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106858", "versions": [{"title": "Full Report (14 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-106858.pdf"}]}

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-106886", "published": "2024-07-23T12:00:00Z", "released": "2024-07-23T08:00:00Z", "summary": "The National Institute on Aging's Real-World Data Platform aimed to improve research into Alzheimer's disease by compiling and analyzing real-world data. This data could come from people's health records, apps and sensors, pharmacy claims, and more. We found that NIA hadn't fully implemented leading project management or cost estimating practices for the platform. For example, NIA's cost estimate was anticipated at $312 million over 6...", "title": "National Institute on Aging: Leading Project Management Practices Are Important for Large-Scale Health Data Efforts", "topics": ["Project management", "Artificial intelligence", "Information Technology", "Grant programs", "Cost estimates", "Human capital management", "Risk management", "Alzheimer's disease", "Lessons learned", "Health care", "Best practices"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106886", "versions": [{"title": "Full Report (15 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-106886.pdf"}]}

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-107471", "published": "2024-07-23T12:00:00Z", "released": "2024-07-23T08:00:00Z", "summary": "Earlier, we estimated that more than $100 billion was lost to fraud in unemployment insurance programs during the pandemic. We also found higher rates of fraud in the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. This Q&A report examines state efforts to fight fraud in this program. States were challenged to rapidly start the program and establish anti-fraud measures. Our survey found that states used multiple tools, such...", "title": "Pandemic Unemployment Assistance: States' Controls to Address Fraud", "topics": ["Unemployment assistance", "Freely associated states", "Unemployment insurance", "Identity verification", "Government Operations", "pandemics", "Territories and possessions", "Internet protocol", "IP addresses", "Insurance claims", "Unemployment"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107471", "versions": [{"title": "Full Report (16 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-107471.pdf"}]}

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+{"gao_id": "GAO-24-107599", "published": "2024-07-23T12:00:00Z", "released": "2024-07-23T08:00:00Z", "summary": "Federal Protective Service's contracted guards control access to government facilities and screen visitors to detect prohibited items. We testified that our investigators conducted 27 covert tests at certain federal buildings in early 2024, and the guards failed to detect prohibited items\u2014like pepper spray and batons\u2014in about half of them. FPS is working to improve screening by increasing training and analyzing data to identify common causes...", "title": "Federal Facility Security: Preliminary Results Show That Challenges Remain in Guard Performance and Oversight", "topics": ["Law enforcement", "Federal buildings", "Homeland Security", "On-the-job training", "Human capital management", "Facility security", "Homeland security", "Data reliability", "Security guards", "Compliance oversight", "Federal facilities"], "type": "reports-testimonies", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107599", "versions": [{"title": "Highlights Page (1 page)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-107599-highlights.pdf"}, {"title": "Full Report (24 pages)", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-24-107599.pdf"}]}