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GAO Recommends USDA Set ReConnect Performance Goals

USDA should establish performance goals, document officials' responsibilities for overseeing fraud risk management activities, and do a fraud risk assessment for the ReConnect program, GAO said in a report released Wednesday. The report said USDA used information from ReConnect and…

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other broadband programs "to inform agency-wide performance goals" but didn't have performance goals specific to the program. GAO said the agency's oversight of the program "aligns with some but not all of the selected leading practices" in its fraud risk framework. USDA agreed with the recommendations, telling GAO its Office of the Chief Risk Officer oversees fraud risk management for ReConnect.