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GAO-21-567PR 1 (2021-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaolwu0001 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 24, 2021 The Honorable Shalanda Young Acting Director The Honorable Jason Miller Deputy Director for Management Office of Management and Budget 725 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20503 Priority Open Recommendations: Office of Management and Budget Dear Ms. Young and Mr. Miller: I appreciated our recent meeting and look forward to a constructive working relationship between our two institutions. As discussed, the purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to critical open recommendations that should be given high priority.1 In November 2020, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 As of June 2021, OMB's recommendation implementation rate was 60 percent and OMB had 153 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could yield significant savings and other improvements in executive branch agency operations. Since our April 2020 letter, OMB has implemented four of our 35 open priority recommendations. OMB, in coordination with the Department of the Treasury, issued additional guidance related to the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act).3 The various guidance implements two priority recommendations that could help ensure that the integrity of certain data standards is maintained over time and improve the clarity, consistency, and quality of agency spending data.4 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, fraud, and abuse; 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). 3Pub. L. No. 113-101, 128 Stat. 1146 (May 9, 2014). 40MB Memorandum M-19-16, Centralized Mission Support Capabilities for the Federal Government (Apr. 26, 2019). GAO-21-567PR OMB Priority Open Recommendations Page 1

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