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MeriTalk: GAO Chief ‘Hopeful’ VA Secretary Can Crack ‘High Risk’ Challenges

“U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, who heads the Government Accountability Office, said in congressional testimony on Wednesday he is “hopeful” that Robert Wilkie, who became the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in July 2018, will have more luck cracking the agency’s pressing problems, including IT, than his predecessors.”

“Dodaro’s testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee elaborated on GAO’s release yesterday of it latest biennial High Risk List which identifies Federal government operations “with vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or in need of transformation to address economy, efficiency, or effectiveness challenges…” Read the full article here.

Source: GAO Chief ‘Hopeful’ VA Secretary Can Crack ‘High Risk’ Challenges – March 7, 2019. MeriTalk.

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Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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