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Maritime Security: Coast Guard and CBP Efforts to Address Prior GAO Recommendations on Asset and Workforce Needs

GAO-23-106695

Published: Mar 23, 2023.

Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2023.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Time Frames to Complete CISA Efforts Would Help Sector Risk Management Agencies Implement Statutory Responsibilities

GAO-23-106720

Published: Mar 23, 2023.

Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2023.
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Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Therapies: Information on Workforce and Education

GAO-23-106030

Published: Mar 23, 2023.

Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2023.
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Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office

GAO-23-900493

Published: Mar 23, 2023.

Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2023.
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Veterans

VA Health Care: Improved Data, Planning, and Communication Needed for Infrastructure Modernization and Realignment

GAO-23-106001

Published: Mar 20, 2023.

Publicly Released: Mar 20, 2023.
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Justice and Law Enforcement

Federal Prisons: Bureau of Prisons Should Improve Efforts to Implement its Risk and Needs Assessment System

GAO-23-105139

Published: Mar 20, 2023.

Publicly Released: Mar 20, 2023.

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BC Site Services, LLC

We sustain the protest.

B-420797.4,B-420797.5

Mar 21

Development Services Group, Inc.

We deny the protest.

B-421310

Mar 20

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GAO Finds Ongoing Serious Weaknesses in U.S. Government’s Financial Statements

Thursday, February 16, 2023

WASHINGTON (February 16, 2023) – The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is again unable to provide an opinion on the reliability of the federal government’s consolidated financial statements....

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Maritime Security: Coast Guard and CBP Efforts to Address Prior GAO Recommendations on Asset and Workforce Needs

Critical Infrastructure Protection: Time Frames to Complete CISA Efforts Would Help Sector Risk Management Agencies Implement Statutory Responsibilities

Regenerative Medicine and Advanced Therapies: Information on Workforce and Education

Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office

VA Health Care: Improved Data, Planning, and Communication Needed for Infrastructure Modernization and Realignment

Federal Prisons: Bureau of Prisons Should Improve Efforts to Implement its Risk and Needs Assessment System

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