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Coast Guard Reported $448 Million in Cleanup Liabilities, GAO Says
Auditors said the service has not told Congress about potential additional costs, including PFAS exposure that could add hundreds of millions of dollars.
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DHS Acquisition Portfolio Tops $55 Billion as Oversight Shifts
GAO found $11.4 billion in baseline cost growth, major staffing losses at eight programs and an oversight office dissolved before part of it returned.
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BJS Counts 133,798 Federal Law Enforcement Officers Across 88 Agencies
The 2023 census found nearly half worked in Homeland Security and seven in ten had criminal investigation as their primary function.
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Federal Agencies Employed 133,798 Law Enforcement Officers in 2023
BJS counted officers across 88 agencies; Homeland Security employed nearly half, while women made up 15% of the workforce.
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Four Agencies Lack Required Lessons-Learned Systems for AI Purchases, GAO Says
GAO reviewed 13 acquisitions and found that Defense, DHS, GSA and Veterans Affairs did not systematically collect lessons that could improve future contract terms, testing and pricing.
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GAO Sets a Three-Step Test for Whether Federal Programs Work
The watchdog says agencies need measurable goals, relevant data and routine use of results to judge programs that collectively spend trillions of dollars each year.
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Four Agencies Have Not Fully Met New Strategic-Review Rules, GAO Says
OMB guidance omitted four leadership and stakeholder requirements, and none of the selected agencies had fully implemented the 2024 law.
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GAO Finds Revoked TWIC Cards Can Still Create Port-Access Risk
Federal auditors found a gap between card cancellation and frontline verification, alongside 888 deficiencies and 83 violations recorded over six fiscal years.