![]() ![]() ![]() The Health and Human Services Department could better plan for future disease outbreaks by coordinating its infectious disease modeling work to prevent duplication.The National Nuclear Security Administration could save hundreds of millions over the next five years approximately by implementing a cost savings program to increase operational efficacy at nuclear labs and production sites.The Office of Management and Budget could save billions over the next five years and possibly eliminate duplicative contracts by improving how agencies buy common goods and services through addressing data management issues and establishing performance metrics.Some examples listed in the report include: In the short term, opportunities exist for achieving billions of dollars in financial savings and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of a wide range of federal programs in other areas.” “Once the pandemic recedes and the economy substantially recovers, Congress and the administration will need to develop and swiftly implement an approach to place the government on a sustainable long-term fiscal path. “The federal government has made an unprecedented financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” GAO said. The Government Accountability Office in its eleventh annual report on “New Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions in Financial Benefits” recommended 112 new actions in 29 new areas. The federal government could save billions of dollars by transforming such disparate functions as taxpayer services, prison staffing and infectious disease modeling, according to a watchdog report. ![]()
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