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The following Government Accountability Office The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress, and thus an agency in the Legislative Branch of the United States Government.  (GAO) reports may be downloaded from the GAO Web site at <http://www.gao.gov>.

Government Operations This article aims to describe the financial expenditure associated with the operations and processes of world governments of all levels. Size of economic footprint

Main articles: Government ownership and Government spending
 

Results-Oriented Government: Practices That Can Help Enhance and Sustain Collaboration among Federal Agencies, GAO-06-15, Oct. 21, 2005

Federal Real Property: Reliance on Costly Leasing to Meet New Space Needs Is an Ongoing Problem, GAO-06-136T, Oct. 6, 2005

Human Capital: Preliminary Observations on the Administration's Draft Proposed "Working for America Act," GAO-06-142T, Oct. 5, 2005

Agency Telework See telecommuting.  Methodologies: Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Small Business Administration, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, GAO-05-1055R, September 27, 2005

Human Capital: Designing and Managing Market-Based and More Performance-Oriented Pay Systems, GAO-05-1048T, Sept. 27, 2005

Improvements Needed to the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation, GAO-05-960R, Sept. 27, 2005

Managing For Results: Enhancing Agency Use of Performance Information for Management Decision Making, GAO-05-927, Sept. 9, 2005

Framework for Assessing the Acquisition Function at Federal Agencies, GAO-05-218G, Sept. 1, 2005

Federal Procurement: Additional Data Reporting Could Improve the Suspension and Debarment de·bar  
tr.v. de·barred, de·bar·ring, de·bars
1. To exclude or shut out; bar.

2. To forbid, hinder, or prevent.
 Process, GAO-05-479, July 29, 2005

Interagency Contracting: Franchise Funds Provide Convenience, but Value to DoD is Not Demonstrated, GAO-05-456, July 29, 2005

Human Capital: Symposium on Designing and Managing Market-Based and More Performance-Oriented Pay Systems, GAO-05-832SP, July 27, 2005

Contract Management: Opportunities Continue for GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM.  to Improve Pricing of Multiple Award Schedules Contracts, GAO-05-911T, July 26, 2005

Federal Contracting: Share-in-Savings Initiative Not Yet Tested, GAO-05-736, July 26, 2005

21st Century Challenges: Transforming Government to Meet Current and Emerging Challenges, GAO-05-830T, July 13, 2005

National Defense

Information Security: The Defense Logistics Agency Noun 1. Defense Logistics Agency - a logistics combat support agency in the Department of Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions
Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department
 Needs to Fully Implement Its Security Program, GAO-06-31, Oct. 7, 2005

DoD's High-Risk Areas: High-Level Commitment and Oversight Needed for DoD Supply Chain Plan to Succeed, GAO-06-113T, Oct. 6, 2005

Defense Transportation: Air Mobility Command Needs to Collect and Analyze Better Data to Assess Aircraft Utilization Average numbers of hours during each 24-hour period that an aircraft is actually in flight. , GAO-05-819, Sept. 29, 2005

DoD Business Transformation: Preliminary Observations on the Defense Travel System, GAO-05-998T, Sept. 29, 2005

Force Structure: Actions Needed to Improve Estimates and Oversight of Costs for Transforming Army to a Modular Force, GAO-05-926, Sept. 29, 2005

Global War on Terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act : DoD Should Consider All Funds Requested for the War When Determining Needs and Covering Expenses, GAO-05-767, Sept. 28, 2005

Briefing on DoD's Report on Commercial Communications Satellite communications satellite  artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an instrumented inflatable sphere that passively reflected radio signals back to  Services Procurement Process, GAO-05-1019R, Sept. 27, 2005

Defense Procurement: Air Force Did Not Fully Evaluate Options in Waiving Berry Amendment The Berry Amendment (USC, Title 10, Section 2533a), requires the Department of Defense to give preference in procurement to domestically produced, manufactured, or home grown products, most notably food, clothing, fabrics, and specialty metals.  for Selected Aircraft, GAO-05-957, Sept. 23, 2005

Global War on Terrorism: DoD Needs to Improve the Reliability of Cost Data and Provide Additional Guidance to Control Costs, GAO-05-882, Sept. 21, 2005

Defense Transportation: Opportunities Exist to Enhance the Credibility of the Current and Future Mobility Capabilities Studies, GAO-05-659R, Sept. 14, 2005

Defense Logistics: Better Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.  Can Help Ensure DoD's Successful Implementation of Passive Radio Frequency Identification See RFID. , GAO-05-345, Sept. 12, 2005

Defense Management: DoD Needs to Demonstrate That Performance-Based Logistics Contracts Are Achieving Expected Benefits, GAO-05-966, Sept. 9, 2005

Radiological Sources in Iraq: DoD Should Evaluate Its Source Recovery Effort and Apply Lessons Learned to Future Recovery Missions, GAO-05-672, Sept. 7, 2005

Defense Acquisitions: Actions Needed to Ensure Adequate Funding for Operation and Sustainment of the Ballistic Missile Defense System Noun 1. missile defense system - naval weaponry providing a defense system
missile defence system

naval weaponry - weaponry for warships
, GAO-05-817, Sept. 6, 2005

Defense Logistics: Better Management and Oversight of Prepositioning Programs Needed to Reduce Risk and Improve Future Programs, GAO-05-427, Sept. 6, 2005

Defense Management: Munitions mu·ni·tion  
n.
War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural.

tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions
To supply with munitions.
 Requirements and Combatant Commander's Needs Still Require Linkage, GAO-05-765R, Aug. 12, 2005

Defense Logistics: DoD Has Begun to Improve Supply Distribution Operations, but Further Actions Are Needed to Sustain These Efforts, GAO-05-775, Aug. 11, 2005

Military Transformation: Actions Needed by DoD to More Clearly Identify New Triad Spending and Develop a Long-term Investment Approach, GAO-05-962R, Aug. 4, 2005

Department of Defense's Assessment Addresses Congressional Concerns but Lacks Detail on High Energy Laser Transition Plans, GAO-05-933R, July 28, 2005

Defense Ammunition: DoD Meeting Small and Medium Caliber Ammunition Needs, but Additional Actions Are Necessary, GAO-05-687, July 27, 2005

DoD Business Systems Modernization: Longstanding Weaknesses in Enterprise Architecture Development Need to Be Addressed, GAO-05-702, July 22, 2005

Defense Acquisitions: Progress and Challenges Facing the DD(X) Surface Combatant Program, GAO-05-924T, July 19, 2005

Industrial Security: DoD Cannot Ensure Its Oversight of Contractors under Foreign Influence Is Sufficient, GAO-05-681, July 15, 2005

Financial Management

Understanding the Primary Components of the Annual Financial Report of the United States Government, GAO-05-958SP, Oct. 1, 2005
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