GAO details IT program risks

The General Accounting Office's 2001 Performance and Accountability Series contains separate reports on 21 agencies, covering each cabinet department, most independent agencies and the U.S. Postal Service.

The series highlights the major management challenges and program risks in each department.

Following are links to FCW.com's reporting on each department's troubled IT programs:

Commerce: Commerce makes progress on modernization

Defense: DOD e-commerce strategy knocked

Education: Education schooled on IT controls

Energy: DOE contract management, security targeted

Health and Human Services: HCFA spinning wheels in IT efforts

Housing and Urban Development: HUD hailed, but still has high risk

Interior: Indian trust fund management targeted

Justice: Report recommends INS restraint

Labor: Labor has to work on one-stop system

State: State needs to shore up security

Transportation: DOT facing familiar criticism

Treasury: IRS, Customs targeted at Treasury

Veterans Administration: VA must address IT strategy

U.S. Agency for International Development: Indian trust fund management targeted

Environmental Protection Agency: GAO focuses on EPA info management

NASA: NASA contract management still at risk

Small Business Administration: SBA plan addresses GAO concerns

Social Security Administration: Future workload is SSA's greatest challenge

U.S. Postal Service: Postal Service forecast grim