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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Agencies Need to Enhance Oversight of Ransomware Practices and Assess Federal Support

GAO-24-106221
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should, in coordination with CISA, co-SRMAs, and sector entities, determine the extent to which the transportation systems sector is adopting leading cybersecurity practices that help reduce the sector's risk of ransomware. (Recommendation 10)
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should, in coordination with CISA, co-SRMAs, and sector entities, develop and implement routine evaluation procedures that measure the effectiveness of federal support in helping reduce the risk of ransomware to the transportation systems sector. (Recommendation 11)
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: Agencies Need to Enhance Oversight of Ransomware Practices and Assess Federal Support

GAO-24-106221
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should, in coordination with CISA, co-SRMAs, and sector entities, assess ransomware risks to the transportation systems sector. (Recommendation 9)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Federal Regulation: Selected Emerging Technologies Highlight the Need for Legislative Analysis and Enhanced Coordination

GAO-24-106122
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should provide the public with information on the NETT Council's completed and planned efforts to evaluate relevant emerging technologies. (Recommendation 2)
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Improve Transparency in the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program

GAO-24-106378
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that Office of the Secretary officials establish quality control procedures to verify that the conflict-of-interest screening and eligibility determination documentation is complete for Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program applications. (Recommendation 1)
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Improve Transparency in the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America Program

GAO-24-106378
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should clearly define, in the Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program evaluation plan and Notice of Funding Opportunity, how an application may qualify as an "exemplary project of national or regional significance that generates significant benefits in one of the project outcome areas." (Recommendation 2)
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Artificial Intelligence: Agencies Have Begun Implementation but Need to Complete Key Requirements

GAO-24-105980
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that the department updates its AI use case inventory to include all the required information, at minimum, and takes steps to ensure that the data in the inventory aligns with provided instructions. (Recommendation 25)
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Artificial Intelligence: Agencies Have Begun Implementation but Need to Complete Key Requirements

GAO-24-105980
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that the department (a) reviews the department's authorities related to applications of AI and (b) develops and submits to OMB plans to achieve consistency with the Regulation of AI Applications memorandum (M-21-06). (Recommendation 24)
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Cybersecurity: Federal Agencies Made Progress, but Need to Fully Implement Incident Response Requirements

GAO-24-105658
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should ensure that the agency fully implements all event logging requirements as directed by OMB guidance. (Recommendation 12)
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Discretionary Transportation Grants: DOT Should Better Align Its Application Evaluation Process with Federal Guidance

GAO-24-106280
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Department of Transportation The Secretary of Transportation should review what additional resources and flexibilities would best address challenges applicants face developing a benefit-cost analysis and take steps to implement them. (Recommendation 1)
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As of March 2024, DOT has partially addressed this recommendation by publishing a benefit-cost analysis spreadsheet on the DOT website to assist RAISE applicants in completing their analyses. According to DOT, this new spreadsheet includes prepopulated formulas for calculations that are common to all benefit-cost analyses and is available to applicants for the fiscal year 2024 RAISE grants. In addition, DOT officials said that DOT hosted multiple webinars in December 2023 and January 2024 to explain how to conduct a benefit-cost analysis and use the new template and held "office hours" to answer applicant questions. However, DOT has not yet provided information to GAO on how it determined that this template would best address applicant challenges with developing a benefit-cost analysis, and whether additional resources and flexibilities are necessary, as GAO recommended. GAO has requested this information from DOT and will continue to follow DOT's progress in implementing this recommendation.
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