10/02/2024 | Press release | Archived content
HHS continues to make progress toward compliance with the GDA, but we identified certain covered agency responsibilities that HHS has not fulfilled. Additionally, HHS has not maintained a departmentwide inventory of all geospatial data assets, and did not include six HHS staffing divisions that handle geospatial data in its self-assessment of progress toward fulfilling GDA responsibilities.
We made four recommendations, including that HHS fulfill the remaining seven covered agency responsibilities established in GDA, ensure that the HHS Office of the Chief Data Officer facilitates HHS's implementation of geospatial-related requirements, develop and maintain an inventory of all geospatial data assets, and prepare the required annual reports regarding the achievements of the covered agency in accordance with GDA requirements.
HHS concurred with all four of our recommendations.
This report may be subject to section 5274 of the National Defense Authorization Act Fiscal Year 2023, 117 Pub. L. 263.