Articles Tagged with ''Government Accountability Office''

Government

House Passes $1.15T Defense Bill With $28.6B for Military Construction

FY2027 NDAA also targets shipyards, ammunition plants, microreactors and the domestic defense industrial base

July 22, 2026

National Defense Authorization Act clears the House with provisions for nuclear microreactors, microgrids, water systems and supply chain logistics.

Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 nuclear complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Federal Oversight

GAO Finds Mounting Costs, Years-Long Delays Across NNSA Nuclear Projects

Federal watchdog says cost growth across federal defense agency’s $30B nuclear modernization construction portfolio more than doubled since 2023

Bryan Gottlieb

March 9, 2026

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Cost overruns and schedule delays across the nuclear weapons management agency's $30B construction portfolio have more than doubled since 2023.

Government

US DOT Freeze of EV Infrastructure Funding Is Illegal, Watchdog Says

James Leggate

May 23, 2025

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A May 22 U.S. Government Accountability Office report says the Transportation Dept. has not properly deployed a program to disburse billions of dollars for more countrywide electric vehicle infrastructure.

Federal Contracts

GAO Rejects Two Bidder Protests of $322M FEMA Award to AECOM

Mary B. Powers

June 15, 2023

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Protests by Fluor and CDM Smith had challenged emergency response agency bid evaluation as too subjective and objected to a single-award blanket purchase agreement.

Border Wall Builder Loses Protest Over Contract Price Difference

Mary B. Powers

March 1, 2021

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Fisher Sand & Gravel claim on 2020 Laredo, Tex. barrier award to Kiewit unit is nixed by GAO

GAO Rejects Bechtel Team Protest of $10B DOE Contract to Ex-AECOM Group

Mary B. Powers

Debra K. Rubin

May 14, 2020

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Ten-year Hanford site final award to new spinoff Amentum comes as DOE on May 14 said that much-watched $13B cleanup at site will go to BWXT-Fluor team. Analyst predicts a Jacobs bid protest.

Halted MOX Plant Prompts Project Management Scrutiny

GAO report cites MOX plutonium project shortfalls in sharing PM lessons learned

Mary B. Powers

January 9, 2019

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Federal auditors say U.S. Energy Dept. PM inexperience led to the estimated final cost of the Mixed Oxide Fuel facility in South Carolina rising to $17.2 billion from its original $4.8-billion estimate, and its planned finish pushed out 32 years.

Federal Buildings

State Dept. Embassy Program Trails 2005 Goal, GAO Says

State says it will implement all of GAO's recommendations to address issues

Tom Ichniowski

October 31, 2018

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Report says that since 2005, State completed 77 projects through FY 17 but had aimed to finish about 140.

Public Works

Multiple Bid Protest Revamps Set to Take Effect May 1

April 25, 2018

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Mandatory electronic filing system is the biggest change.

Mary B. Powers

May 17, 2017

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In the aftermath of a poorly executed Colorado veterans’ hospital project that tripled in cost from $604 million to $1.7 billion and slipped from a 2013 opening to early 2018, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has taken a critical look at U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs facility planning and project delivery in two recent reports.

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Articles Tagged with ''Government Accountability Office''

House Passes $1.15T Defense Bill With $28.6B for Military Construction

GAO Finds Mounting Costs, Years-Long Delays Across NNSA Nuclear Projects

US DOT Freeze of EV Infrastructure Funding Is Illegal, Watchdog Says

GAO Rejects Two Bidder Protests of $322M FEMA Award to AECOM

Border Wall Builder Loses Protest Over Contract Price Difference

GAO Rejects Bechtel Team Protest of $10B DOE Contract to Ex-AECOM Group

Halted MOX Plant Prompts Project Management Scrutiny

State Dept. Embassy Program Trails 2005 Goal, GAO Says

Multiple Bid Protest Revamps Set to Take Effect May 1

More Struggles Are Ahead for VA Medical Construction

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