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GAO-23-106579 1 (2023-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaooqp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 11, 2023 The Honorable Avril Haines Director of National Intelligence Office of the Director of National Intelligence Washington, D.C. 20511 Priority Open Recommendations: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Dear Director Haines: The purpose of this letter is to provide the overall status of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's (ODNI) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas in which GAO's open recommendations should be given high priority.1 Our work on Intelligence Community (IC) oversight has generated numerous recommendations to help enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the IC, but we have observed minimal progress in the implementation of these recommendations. In November 2022, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 As of March 2023, ODNI had 50 open recommendations with an implementation rate of 7 percent for recommendations made in the past 4 years.3 In March 2023, ODNI responded to some of the open recommendations and noted that the agency concurred with 14 of our priority recommendations. In addition, ODNI stated that it had taken action to address 10 of them. I urge you to document ODNI's actions taken in response to these recommendations and provide this to us so we can assess the steps taken and determine whether the recommendations can be closed. In addition to addressing GAO's recommendations, I request your assistance in resolving an issue that is negatively affecting our ability to complete our audit work in a timely manner. Specifically, GAO teams are experiencing significant delays obtaining ODNI's official comments and security/sensitivity reviews on our draft reports. This has led to delays in the issuance of our work and, thus, the delivery of information to Congress. Given the prolonged nature of some of these delays, we have issued some reports without ODNI's official comments. This is a decision we made reluctantly, as obtaining and reflecting official input on our reports is a valuable part of 1Priority open 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 operation, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2022, GAO-23-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov.15, 2022). 3As of March 2023, ODNI's rate of implementation for all of the recommendations we have made since 2011 was 27 percent. GAO-23-106579 ODNI Priority Recommendations Page 1

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