Joshua Akery

Export-Import Bank: Status of GAO Recommendations on Risk Management, Exposure Forecasting, and Workload Issues

The U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) has addressed recommendations GAO made in two 2013 reports that related to processes for estimating losses, managi...

Cuba Democracy Assistance

USAID's Program Is Improved, but State Could Better Monitor Its Implementing Partners

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Department of State (State) provide democracy assistance for Cuba aimed at developing civil ...

Follow-up on the Haiti Earned Import Allowance Program

What GAO Found Exports of Haitian apparel to the United States under EIAP have increased substantially since we last reported in 2011. Although only t...

Export-Import Bank: Additional Analysis and Information Could Better Inform Congress on Exposure, Risk, and Resources

While the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) Business Plan reported that Ex-Im's exposure limits were appropriate, the forecasting process used to reach this ...

Counternarcotics Assistance

U.S. Agencies Have Allotted Billions in Andean Countries, but DOD Should Improve Its Reporting of Results

No single U.S. counternarcotics strategy exists for the Andean region. In each country—Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela—the U.S. emba...

Diplomatic Security: Key Oversight Issues

In response to increasing threats to U.S. personnel and facilities at overseas diplomatic posts since 1998, the Department of State (State) has taken ...

Export-Import Bank: Recent Growth Underscores Need for Improved Risk Management and Reporting

Ex-Im's Business Plan concluded that the exposure limits in the Reauthorization Act were appropriate, but GAO’s May 2013 report found weaknesses in t...

Diplomatic Security: State Department Should Better Manage Risks to Residences and Other Soft Targets Overseas

What GAO Found The Department of State (State) conducts a range of activities to assess risks to residences overseas. For instance, State tracks infor...

Border Patrol: Key Elements of New Strategic Plan Not Yet in Place to Inform Border Security Status and Resource Needs

In fiscal year 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported data meeting its goal to secure the land border with a decrease in apprehensio...

Diplomatic Security: State Should Enhance Its Management of Transportation-Related Risks to Overseas U.S. Personnel

Is the State Department doing enough to keep U.S. personnel safe? U.S. personnel overseas can be targets of terrorism, violence, and crime—particula...

Overseas Real Property: State Department Needs to Improve Guidance and Records Management

What GAO Found GAO's analysis of the overseas real property portfolio of the Department of State (State) indicates that the overall inventory has incr...

State Department: Leadership Focus Needed to Guide Agency Reform Efforts

The Department of State (State) is implementing most of the 17 reform projects it reported to Congress in February 2018, but a few are stalled or disc...