Today's GAO Reports - September 09, 2009

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following reports and testimonies:

Reports

1. Employee Misclassification: Improved Coordination, Outreach, and Targeting Could Better Ensure Detection and Prevention. GAO-09-717, August 10.  Highlights

2. Social Security Disability: Additional Performance Measures and Better Cost Estimates Could Help Improve SSA's Efforts to Eliminate Its Hearings Backlog. GAO-09-398, September 9.  Highlights

3. Homeland Defense: U.S. Northern Command Has a Strong Exercise Program, but Involvement of Interagency Partners and States Can Be Improved. GAO-09-849, September 9.  Highlights

4. Military Base Realignments and Closures: Transportation Impact of Personnel Increases Will Be Significant, but Long-Term Costs Are Uncertain and Direct Federal Support Is Limited. GAO-09-750, September 9.  Highlights

5. Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Options Exist to Enhance Transportation Planning Capacity and Federal Oversight. GAO-09-868, September 9.  Highlights

Related Product:

Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (GAO-09-867SP, September 2009), an E-supplement to GAO-09-868. GAO-09-867SP, September 9. [Internet only]

6. Wildland Fire Management: Federal Agencies Have Taken Important Steps Forward, but Additional, Strategic Action Is Needed to Capitalize on Those Steps. GAO-09-877, September 9.  Highlights

7. Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, but Face Significant Challenges. GAO-09-761, September 9.  Highlights

8. United States Merchant Marine Academy: Internal Control Weaknesses Resulted in Improper Sources and Uses of Funds; Some Corrective Actions Are Under Way. GAO-09-635, August 10.  Highlights

Testimonies

1. Afghanistan and Pakistan: Oversight of U.S. Interagency Efforts, by Jacquelyn Williams-Bridgers, managing director, international affairs and trade, before the Subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-09-1015T, September 9.  Highlights

2. Ryan White CARE Act: Program Changes Affecting Minority AIDS Initiative and Part D Grantees, by Marcia Crosse, director, health care, before the Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Energy and Commerce. GAO-09-1027T, September 9.  Highlights

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