- Information Technology: FDA Needs to Establish Key Plans and Processes for Guiding Systems Modernization Efforts, GAO-09-523, June 02, 2009: “In response to federal law and guidance and urgent mission needs, FDA is pursuing numerous modernization projects (including 16 enterprisewide initiatives), many of which are in early stages. However, FDA does not have a comprehensive IT strategic plan to coordinate and manage these initiatives and projects. Such a plan would describe what the agency seeks to accomplish, identify the strategies it will use to achieve desired results, and provide results-oriented goals and performance measures that permit it to determine whether it is succeeding.”
- Nuclear Waste: DOE’s Environmental Management Initiatives Report Is Incomplete, GAO-09-697R, June 02, 2009: “The Department of Energy (DOE) spends billions of dollars annually to clean up
nuclear waste at sites across the nation that produced nuclear weapons from the 1940s through the end of the Cold War. This waste can threaten public health and the environment. For example, contaminants at DOEs Hanford site in Washington have migrated through the soil into the groundwater, which generally flows toward the Columbia River. The river is a source of irrigation for agriculture and drinking water for downstream communities as well as a major route for migrating salmon. Cleanup projects decontaminate and demolish buildings, remove and dispose of contaminated soil, treat contaminated groundwater, and stabilize and dispose of solid and liquid radioactive wastes, among other things. DOEs Office of Environmental Management currently oversees more than 80 of these cleanup projects, primarily at government-owned, contractor-operated sites throughout the nation. Some of these highly complex projects have completion dates beyond 2050.”
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