GAO creates new team to 'enhance and expand' science and technology work

FedScoop: The Government Accountability Office has created a new and “more prominent” team to focus on its science and technology work, as the congressional agency aims to meet the increasing demand for access to such expertise.

The Science, Technology Assessment and Analytics (STAA) group has a four-fold mission: It will provide tech assessments to Congress, audit tech and science programs at federal agencies, and practice what it preaches by creating an innovation lab to “explore, pilot, and deploy new advanced analytic capabilities, information assurance auditing, and emerging technologies that are expected to greatly impact auditing practices.”

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