Word: gao
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Lack of Readiness. Over the past three years, the government's General Accounting Office has issued several reports about slipshod training and severe shortages of equipment in Guard units around the country. Among the items listed in the GAO's February 1991 study: during a training exercise, one unit had only 40% of the chemical-warfare equipment it needed; a helicopter battalion was unable to practice because it was given only two usable antitank missiles for live-fire exercises; and an infantry battalion received only 19 of the 60 TOW missiles it had requested. All too often, the GAO reported...
...would require 3,700 hours a year of dangerous spacewalking to maintain. Recently NASA scaled back the space station, shaving, it said, about $8 billion off the cost, but the General Accounting Office pegged the price of this new space station at $40 billion. The long-term cost, the GAO said, could amount to $118 billion, which puts the station in the same league as the S&L bailout and the Advanced Tactical Fighter...
...General Accounting Office (GAO) has wrapped up its inquiry at Stanford and is now conducting investigations at Harvard, MIT and the University of California at Berkeley. HHS is auditing over 20 schools and the Navy is performing audits at over 40 schools...
...will be drafting a new version of Circular A-21--the all-encompassing set of regulations defining appropriate indirect cost billing--that will attempt to further restrict overhead reimbursements in light of the findings of the GAO...
...When the GAO has completed its inquiries into indirect costs, it will prepare a comprehensive report on its findings for the subcommittee, an investigator says...