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                            High-Risk Series: An Update
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                          An Update **GAO-03-119**
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  GAO's audits and evaluations identify federal programs and operations that are high risk, in some cases, due to their greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. Increasingly, we also are identifying high-risk areas to focus on major economy, efficiency, or effectiveness challenges. Since 1990, GAO has periodically reported on government operations that it has designated as high risk. In this 2003 update for the new 108th Congress, GAO presents the status of high-risk areas included in our last report made in January 2001 and identifies new high-risk areas warranting attention by the Congress and the administration. Lasting solutions to high-risk problems offer the potential to save billions of dollars, dramatically improve service to the American public, strengthen public confidence and trust in the performance and accountability of our national government, and ensure the ability of government to deliver on its promises.Below are the reports in this series:High-Risk Series: An Update GAO-03-119, Jan 1, 2003High-Risk Series: Strategic Human Capital Management GAO-03-120, Jan 1, 2003High-Risk Series: Protecting Information Systems Supporting the Federal Government and the Nation's Critical Infrastructures GAO-03-121, Jan 1, 2003High-Risk Series: Federal Real Property GAO-03-122, Jan 1, 2003Added later:Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Single-Employer Insurance Program: Long-Term Vulnerabilities Warrant 'High Risk' Designation GAO-03-1050SP, Jul 23, 2003**Performance and Accountability Series:**Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: A Governmentwide Perspective GAO-03-95, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Agriculture GAO-03-96, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Commerce GAO-03-97, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Defense GAO-03-98, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Education GAO-03-99, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Energy GAO-03-100, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Health and Human Services GAO-03-101, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Homeland Security GAO-03-102, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Housing and Urban Development GAO-03-103, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of the Interior GAO-03-104, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Justice GAO-03-105, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Labor GAO-03-106, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of State GAO-03-107, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Transportation GAO-03-108, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of the Treasury GAO-03-109, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Department of Veterans Affairs GAO-03-110, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: U.S. Agency for International Development GAO-03-111, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Environmental Protection Agency GAO-03-112, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Federal Emergency Management Agency GAO-03-113, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration GAO-03-114, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Office of Personnel Management GAO-03-115, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Small Business Administration GAO-03-116, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: Social Security Administration GAO-03-117, Jan 1, 2003Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: U.S. Postal Service GAO-03-118, Jan 1, 2003

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