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What GAO Found The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components spend billions annually on programs to acquire systems and capabilities that support national security. In fiscal year (FY) 2025, GAO reviewed 27 DHS major acquisition programs—generally, those with total costs over $300 million. To support timely delivery of capabilities and minimize cost growth, DHS policy requires programs to get DHS approval for their baseline cost, schedule, and performance goals. Of the 27 programs reviewed, 19 had received this approval while the other 8 had not yet reached the stage where this was required. As of September 30, 2025, 15 of the 19 programs had revised their baseline goals.
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What GAO Found The General Services Administration (GSA) maintains an inventory of the federal government’s real property assets in a database called the Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) Management System. Over time, data elements have been added to the FRPP for various reasons, including in response to laws. GSA has taken steps to improve FRPP data’s completeness and accuracy, such as updating guidance for agencies that submit data to FRPP. GAO assessed the accuracy of location data for fiscal year 2024 and found the data were generally accurate at the country and state level—data that GSA validates. However, the data were less accurate at a more granular level. In particular, about 20.
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What GAO Found The electromagnetic spectrum is a critical resource for many uses including national defense and commercial wireless services. Since more than one user operating on the same frequency can disrupt transmissions, the Department of Defense (DOD) must coordinate its spectrum use. It does so with other federal agencies and nonfederal entities, such as private sector companies and other organizations. This coordination occurs through a National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) committee. In doing so, DOD generally follows leading collaboration practices. For instance, DOD policy and practices provide for defined roles, established processes, and regular comm.
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What GAO Found In general, small communities continue to face declining scheduled passenger air service, especially at nonhub airports—airports that have more than 10,000 annual commercial passenger boardings but less than 0.05 percent of the annual total of U.S. commercial passenger boardings. At these airports, the average number of daily departures per route in 2024 was 19 percent lower than the 2018 level. Over 70 percent of nonhub airports that were not receiving federal support from the Essential Air Service (EAS) program experienced a decline in average daily departures per route from 2018 to 2024. Percentage Change from 2018 to 2024 in Average Daily Departures per Route for Nonhub A.
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What GAO Found The Census Bureau fully implemented leading practices for risk management for its enterprise-wide data storage and processing modernization program (known as the Enterprise Data Lake). It also substantially implemented leading practices for managing requirements and cost estimating. However, the Bureau partially implemented leading practices for developing and maintaining the schedule for the program, as shown in the table. Extent to Which the Census Bureau Implemented Leading Practices for Managing the Enterprise Data Lake Program Management Area Overall Assessment Assessment by Leading Practice Risk Management ⬤ Fully implemented ⬤ ⬤ ⬤ ⬤ ⬤ Requirements Management ◕ Substant.
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What GAO Found The Department of Defense’s (DOD) decisions to partner with civilian medical facilities to train military medical personnel for the battlefield are influenced by various factors that can support or hinder the use of partnerships, according to officials. One type of partnership that DOD can establish through an external resource sharing agreement allows active-duty providers to provide medical care to beneficiaries in civilian medical facilities within DOD’s network. Using these partnerships can reduce costs by avoiding certain professional fees and by keeping patient care within the network. However, DOD has not fully explored the benefits of increasing the use of these partn.
