In 2011, DOD allotted at least $ 5.6 billion for designated MAIS programs, which are intended to help the department sustain its key operations. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 mandated that GAO select and assess DOD MAIS programs through March 2018.

FAA, collaborating with other federal agencies and the aviation industry, is implementing NexGen, an advanced technology air traffic management system that FAA anticipates will replace the current ground radar based system. At an expected cost of $18 billion through 2018, NextGen is is expected to enhance safety, increase capacity and decrease congestion in the national airspace system.

Facilities that produce, store, or use hazardous chemicals could be of interest to terrorists intent on using toxic chemicals to inflict mass casualties in the United States. As required by statue, DHS issued regulations that establish standards for the security of high risk chemical facilities

Individuals seeking to enter the United States illegally may attempt to avoid screeining procedures at ports of entry by crossing the border in areas between these ports, including Indian reservations, many of which have been vulnerable to illicit cross-border threat activity, such as drug smuggling according to DHS. GAO was asked to review DH'S efforts to coordinate with tribal governments to address border security threats and vulnerabilities on Indian reservations.

The STOCK Act includes several provisions affecting executive and legislative branch employees. For example, the Act makes clear that executive branch employees, Members of Congress, and employees of Congress are not exempt from insider trading prohibitions under securities laws. In addition, the STOCK Act requires that certain financial disclosure forms be made available to the public via official websites, and that some financial transactions that exceed $1,000 be filed within 30 to 45 days for certain executive and legislative branch employees, as well as Members and employees of...

In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 1A, which authorized $9.95 billion in state bond funding for construction of the California highspeed rail system and connection improvements to existing passenger rail systems. Proposition 1A established several requirements for this high-speed rail system, such as that the rail system must be capable of sustained operating speeds of no less than 200 miles per hour, and once built, must operate without a public subsidy. The planned 520-mile highspeed rail system will operate between San Francisco and Los Angeles at speeds up to 220 miles per...

Concerned that certain racial and ethnic groups were over represented in special education, Congress in the 2004 reautherization of IDEA required that school districts take certain actions to address this problem. Specifically, districts identified with " significant disproportionality" based on race and ethnicity must spend 15 % of their IDEA funds to provide early intervening services to school age children who need additional academic and behavioral support.

Since 2002 MDA has spent approximately $90billion to provide protection from enemy ballistic missiles by developing battle management systems, sensors that identify incoming threats, and missles to intercept them MDA plans to spend about $8billion per year through 2017. For nearly a decade we have reported on MDA's progress and challenges in developing and fielding the Ballistic Missle Defense System

Since beginning operations in 2003, DHS has become the third largest federal department, with more than 224,000 employees and an annual budget of about $60 billion. Over the past 10 years, DHS has implemented key homeland security operations and achieved important goals to create and strengthen a foundation to reach its potential.

in 1976, Congress passed TSCA to provide EPA with the authority to obtain more information on chemicals and to regulate those chemicals that EPA determines pose unreasonable risks of injury to human health or the environment. GAO has reported that EPA has found much of TSCA difficult to implement hampering the agency's ability to obtain certain chemical data or place limits on chemicals.