DHS
GAO: Further Actions Are Needed to Improve Government Efficiency and Effectiveness
GAO estimates that tens of billions of additional dollars could be saved should Congress and executive branch agencies fully address the remaining 365 open actions, including the 68 new ones identified in 2018.
Cybersecurity
GAO: Agencies Report Mixed Progress Toward Achieving Data Center Goals
The 24 agencies reported limited progress against OMB's five data center optimization targets for server utilization and automated monitoring, energy metering, power usage effectiveness, facility utilization, and virtualization.
DoD/National Defense
GAO: DoD Documents on Rebalance to the Pacific Included Most Key Elements of a National Strategy
However, two key elements were missing from the group of strategy documents which were a definition of the rebalance to the Pacific and the identification of the overall results desired, or end state, for the rebalance.
Airport & Aviation Security
GAO: FAA Should Improve Way It Manages Safety Risks for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Of the five key principles of safety risk management in its policies, FAA — in its regulatory efforts related to small UAS — followed two and partially followed three.
Counterterrorism
Over a 15-year period, HHS awarded about $3 billion to states and others to respond to specific disease threats, such as Zika, Ebola, and H1N1 pandemic influenza.
Cybersecurity
GAO: DoD Should Adhere to Best Practices to Manage and Oversee MAIS Business Programs
Specifically, the policy for managing 24 non-business MAIS programs adheres to leading information technology (IT) management practices, but the policy for managing 10 MAIS business programs does not always do so.
Emerging Innovation
Drone Use by Public Safety Agencies Increased 82 Percent Over Past Year
Database project finds there are now more than twice as many agencies that own drones as there are agencies that own manned aircraft in the U.S.
Emerging Innovation
South Carolina Launching First-in-Nation Drones to Watch Inmates
Agency has hired two pilots, both military veterans, who will travel among the state's 21 prisons and monitor them from 400 feet in the air using remote controls and video screens.
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