Comptroller General Gene Dodaro’s very last congressional hearing on the Government Accountability Office’s high-risk list went back over some familiar yet urgent ground, as the long-time head of GAO ...

Those locations include GAO’s Huntsville office, whose lease is set to be canceled effective Aug. 31, according to the memo. The watchdog agency’s Atlanta and Norfolk offices’ leases will be ...

DOD plans to implement elements of the new approach within the next 5 years. GAO Image To accomplish this shift, DOD is increasing coordination among SATCOM stakeholders and with commercial SATCOM ...

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What GAO Found The private companies that the Navy contracts with to build vessels and repair surface ships are key components of the Navy’s ship industrial base. These private companies augment ...

The Government Accountability Office has urged a new guidance update on the Department of Defense’s pilot program on non-competitive contract awards to companies formed as “employee stock ...

China has promoted Li Gao, a veteran climate negotiator and an advocate of the country’s carbon credit program, to a vice minister at the Ecology and Environment Ministry. The 55-year-old’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Gold panners break stones in Kidal, Mali, on Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File) A gold miner holds ...

The GAO said it anticipates it will have the staff necessary to conduct this investigation shortly. A district judge recently ordered several government agencies to bring back probationary employees, ...

Mali has stopped issuing permits for small-scale gold mining to foreign nationals, after several deadly incidents in recent weeks and amid a drop in gold production. Interim President Assimi Goita ...

After months of negotiations, an agreement to settle the dispute between Mali’s ruling junta and Barrick Gold, the world’s second-largest gold producer, remains unfinished. Talks seemed close to ...