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GAO-21-572PR 1 (2021-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaolvn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 15, 2021 The Honorable Gina M. Raimondo Secretary U.S. Department of Commerce 1401 Constitution Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20230 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Commerce Dear Madam Secretary: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2020, we reported that, government-wide, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 Commerce's recommendation implementation rate was 87 percent. As of June 2021, Commerce had 89 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve Commerce's operations. Since our April 20, 2020, letter, Commerce has implemented nine of our 20 open priority recommendations. Commerce addressed three recommendations related to the Decennial Census. We found Commerce took significant steps to improve the risk management of the decennial census by ensuring identified risks had the required mitigation and contingency plans. It also took steps to improve control over how risk and uncertainty are accounted for in the Census Bureau's (Bureau) decennial cost estimation process. Further, Commerce implemented a formal process for tracking and executing appropriate corrective actions to remediate cybersecurity weaknesses identified by the Department of Homeland Security, expeditiously addressing identified deficiencies. As a result of these efforts, Commerce improved its oversight of the decennial census by better positioning itself to manage and mitigate risks as well as cybersecurity weaknesses identified by federal partners. Commerce established a process for conducting an organization-wide cybersecurity risk assessment. Establishing a process for aggregating information from sources such as system-level risk assessments, continuous monitoring, and any relevant strategic risk considerations allows the agency to consider the totality of risk derived from the operation and the use of its information systems. 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or fragmentation, overlap, or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2020, GAO-21-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 16, 2020). GAO-21-572PR Commerce Priority Recommendations Page 1

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