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Foreign Service Promotions: State Should Improve Documentation and Consider Expanding Demographic Representation on Selection Boards
GAO-25-106956
Nov 18, 2024
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent documents its assessment of the usefulness of the leading practices identified in the benchmarking study for its reform initiative. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent documents how GTM specifically defines the established requirements for selection board members. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent consider how best to make certain that selection board member composition better reflects the Foreign Service, including ethnicity and disability status. (Recommendation 3)
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Federal Courthouse Construction: New Design Standards Will Result in Significant Size and Cost Increases
GAO-25-106724
Nov 15, 2024
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Administrative Office of the United States Courts The Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts should clearly define, or provide specific examples of, variations from the Design Guide that constitute exceptions subject to additional oversight. (Recommendation 1)
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Administrative Office of the United States Courts The Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts should develop and document a process to better ensure effective collaboration when updating the Design Guide, including by engaging in two-way communication with, and soliciting input from, all relevant stakeholders. (Recommendation 2)
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Administrative Office of the United States Courts The Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, in collaboration with GSA, should reassess the need for increased circulation requirements in the 2021 Design Guide, using relevant information. Such an assessment should consider the space and cost modeling of recently constructed courthouses discussed in this report, the perspectives of project stakeholders and building occupants in these courthouses, the cost implications for future rent obligations paid to GSA, and operations and maintenance costs of judiciary space and overall building space in future courthouses. (Recommendation 3)
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H-2A Visa Program: Agencies Should Take Additional Steps to Improve Oversight and Enforcement
GAO-25-106389
Nov 14, 2024
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Department of Homeland Security The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services should establish a schedule, including milestones, for complete end-to-end electronic processing of H-2A visa program petitions. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Labor The Secretary of Labor should ensure that the Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, identifies and evaluates options, including the costs and benefits of those options, for reducing the resource burden on WHD in its efforts to find workers to return back wages. (Recommendation 2)
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Drug Safety: FDA Should Implement Strategies to Retain Its Inspection Workforce
GAO-25-106775
Nov 13, 2024
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Food and Drug Administration The Commissioner of FDA should ensure that FDA develops and implements action plans that address attrition caused by issues with investigator travel, workload, and work-life balance. In doing so, ORA, CDER, and other relevant stakeholders should collaborate to identify strategies that balance current inspectional needs against the need to retain an experienced workforce and identify any necessary actions, resources, or new authorities. (Recommendation 1)
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