I am a fellow, prod to have you all here, and also i am one of your two cohosts from representing the school of Public Policy and Public Administration, where we prepare lots and lots of wonderful students for federal service as well as service in a variety of part of the public and nonprofit sector. Im delighted to be here for several reasons. Good to see a lot of my old friends. With 12 of our faculty are not the fellows. At least a couple of us are here at this sort of midsummer, a lot of people at the beach and its great you all are you. Its an important topic, and we are delighted to be here to invite you to host, and also its wonderful always to see gene dodaro. Just a couple months ago i was up on this stage giving, being part of the arthur awards commission to give gene a Lifetime Achievement award. I dont know if you know that but he was an Arthur Flemming award winner very early in his career. Its an award that goes to federal leaders early in their career, and as i said it w
Environment. This is a little more than two hours. Thank you, kathy. Thank you all of you for joining us on an august when state for not being on recess. And instead coming to join us for what we think is a very timely event. I would also like to thank kathy barbara and the American University school of Public Administration for sponsoring the event. For those of you may not be familiar with the academy, we are a nonpartisan, nonprofit chartered organization. Charged with identifying emerging issues of governance to help federal, state, and local governments improve. The academys mission is to provide advice. Advice that is timely, actionable, and objective on Public Management issues. Sellers who are current and former cabinet officials, members of congress, governors, mayors, legislators, jurors, business executives, public managers, and scholars. They are elected fellows because contribution through called scholarship and government service. This year we are celebrating our 50th ann
I want to thank you and kathy for sponsoring this program and for organizing it. I am very pleased to be here, so good morning to all of you. I would like to talk a little bit about the genesis of the high risk list, and efforts associated with helping the agencies navigate their way off the list. When i was at my confirmation hearing, and Congress Asked me what some of my Top Priorities were, in addition to trying to get the federal government on a path, itainable fiscal mention the high risk list. It was not only to identify areas of high risk, but the help agencies appropriately giving our agencies get off the list. That is the way we view success at gao, is helping the government operate more effectively by solving these highrisk problems. The High Risk Program had its 1980s in the late some scandals that have occurred in the federal government. Congress became concerned that these major breakdowns occurred in their view with little warning. Ao to come up g ofh a list of programs h
I want to thank you and kathy for sponsoring this program and for organizing it. I am very pleased to be here, so good morning to all of you. I would like to talk a little bit about the genesis of the high risk list, and efforts associated with helping the agencies navigate their way off the list. When i was at my confirmation hearing, and Congress Asked me what some of my Top Priorities were, in addition to trying to get the federal government on a path, itainable fiscal mention the high risk list. It was not only to identify areas of high risk, but the help agencies appropriately giving our agencies get off the list. That is the way we view success at gao, is helping the government operate more effectively by solving these highrisk problems. The High Risk Program had its 1980s in the late some scandals that have occurred in the federal government. Congress became concerned that these major breakdowns occurred in their view with little warning. Ao to come up g ofh a list of programs h
Familiar with the academy, we are a nonpartisan, nonprofit congressionally chartered organization, charged with identifying emerging issues of governance to help state and local governments improve their performance. The academys mission is to provide trusted advice, advice it is timely, actionable, and objective on Public Management issues. The source of our expert ceases or membership who are current and former cabinet officials, members of congress, governors, mayors, legislators, jurists, business executives, public managers, and scholars. They are elected fellows because of the distinguished conservation to the field through scholarship, activism and government service. This year, we are celebrating a 50th anniversary. Since our establishment in 1967, the academy has responded to a multitude of risk a request from agencies across the government and has undertaken numerous studies on issues of interest to congress, administration and stakeholders in general. We are in the business