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September 26, 2024
The Honorable Mark Warner
Chairman
The Honorable Marco Rubio
Vice Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
The Honorable Michael Turner
Chairman
The Honorable Jim Himes
Ranking Member
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
House of Representatives
Status of Open GAO Recommendations to the Director of National Intelligence
GAO’s mission is to support Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities. We make
recommendations to improve the accountability, operations, and services of government
agencies and to increase the effectiveness of federal spending. In fiscal year 2023, our work
yielded about $70.4 billion in financial benefits—a return of about $84 for every dollar invested
in GAO.
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We also identified 1,220 other benefits—those that cannot be measured in dollars but
that led to program and operational improvements across the government, including at the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 included a
provision for the Comptroller General to submit a list to the congressional Intelligence
Committees and to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) of all open recommendations
made by GAO to the DNI originally by September 30, 2023, and annually thereafter through
2028.
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The provision also directs the DNI to submit a report of actions taken and actions the
DNI intends to take in response to each open recommendation within 120 days of receiving the
list.
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This report and its enclosures is our second submission, which formally transmits and
communicates the final results of our work. It describes DNI’s (1) progress in implementing
recommendations from GAO reports issued from July 2011 through September 15, 2024; (2)
initial responses to open recommendations; and (3) progress in implementing priority
1
GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2023, GAO-24-900483 (Washington, D.C.: November 15,
2023).
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Pub. L. No. 117-263, § 6304 (2022). This provision requires the Comptroller General to submit the annual list no
later than September 30, 2023, and each September 30 thereafter through 2028.
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GAO, Status of Open GAO Recommendations Made to the Director of National Intelligence, GAO-23-106892
(Washington, D.C.: September 29, 2023) (2023 Letter); ODNI, Response to GAO-23-106892: Open
Recommendations for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Washington, D.C.: April 2024).
