Covid-19: Opportunities to Improve Federal Response and Recovery Efforts
GAO-20-625: Published: Jun 25, 2020. The Abstract, Highlights and Full report all available on the website.[ Not sure how many pages the full report is.]
The GAO also mentioned this report on its WatchBlog and asked for comments.
Update on June 26: GAO Staffer testimony about the report.
The Diva thought that the GAO was unusually direct and blunt in its criticisms in this report.
From the GAO blog, this excellent article titled The Coronavirus Response: Lessons Learned from The Past
The Diva was glad to read about GAO’s plans to expand its scientific and technology expertise. An account of what that means is available on their blog site.
New GAO Report: Federal Disaster Assistance: Individual Assistance Requests Often Granted but FEMA Could Better Document Factors Considered. GAO-18-366, Published: May 31, 2018.
Overview of Disaster Contracting in 2017 – interesting facts re disaster events.
Direct link to the 27 page GAO report: 2017 Disaster Contracting: Observations on Federal Contracting for Response and Recovery Efforts. GAO-18-335, Published: Feb 28, 2018.
Hot off the presses, this report on Disaster Recovery from the GAO. As the Diva noted a few days ago, the Frontline TV Show featured the huge problems with recovery and with the National Flood Insurance Program after Hurricane Sandy. One would expect that the show would have generated a lot of scrutiny. But as we all know a GAO takes many months to complete. So it is an interesting coincidence that this report was released today.
Disaster Recovery: FEMA Needs to Assess Its Effectiveness in Implementing the National Disaster Recovery Framework. Report is 45 pages. GAO-16-476: Published: May 26, 2016.
For those of you as impatient as the Diva, the first 16 pages of the report describe what should happen, and then on pages 17 -30 the report digs into what actually happened and the problems identified. The conclusions and recommendations for action are on pages 30 and 31.
Recovery Diva 