Recent GAO Publications

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released the following publications:

Recovery Act: States' Use of Highway Infrastructure Funds and Compliance with the Act's Requirements, By Katherine A. Siggerud, managing director, physical infrastructure issues, before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
GAO-09-926T, July 31.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-926T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09926thigh.pdf

Information Technology: HUD Needs to Strengthen Its Capacity to Manage and Modernize Its Environment.
GAO-09-675, July 31.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-675
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09675high.pdf

Improper Payments: Significant Improvements Needed in DOD's Efforts to Address Improper Payment and Recovery Auditing Requirements.
GAO-09-442, July 29.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-442
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09442high.pdf

Public Transportation: FTA's Triennial Review Program Has Improved, But Assessments of Grantees' Performance Could Be Enhanced.
GAO-09-603, June 30.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-603
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09603high.pdf

Reverse Mortgages: Policy Changes Have Had Mostly Positive Effects on Lenders and Borrowers, but These Changes and Market Developments Have Increased HUD's Risk.
GAO-09-836, July 30.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-836
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09836high.pdf

Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Strengthen Investment Board Oversight of Poorly Planned and Performing Projects.
GAO-09-566, June 30.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-566
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09566high.pdf

Highway Trust Fund Expenditures on Purposes Other than Construction and Maintenance of Highways and Bridges during Fiscal Years 2004-2008.
GAO-09-729R, June 30.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-729R

U.S. Postal Service: Broad Restructuring Needed to Address Deteriorating Finances, by Phillip Herr, director, physical infrastructure issues, before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
GAO-09-790T, July 30.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-790T
Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d09790thigh.pdf