Federal research opportunities, DOE, DOD, and HHS need better guidance for participant activities : report to the Ranking Member, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.

Contributor:

Neumann, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.

United States. Department of Defense--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of Health and Human Services--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

United States. Department of Defense.

United States. Department of Health and Human Services.

Science--Study and teaching--United States.

Science.

Science--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 41 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Federal research opportunities, Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Department of Health and Human Services need better guidance for participant activities : report to the Ranking Member, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate

DOE, DOD, and HHS need better guidance for participant activities

GAO-16-128, Federal research opportunities

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2016.

Summary:

The ORISE research participation program seeks to enhance the future scientific and engineering workforce by providing students, postgraduates, and faculty with hands-on research experiences in federal agencies. The program is administered by a DOE contractor, and other agencies sponsor research participants via interagency agreements with DOE. Research participants engage in a variety of projects at DOE and other sponsoring agencies, but they are not considered federal government employees and thus are prohibited from performing inherently governmental functions. GAO was asked to review the ORISE research participation program. This report examines (1) program expenditures by all sponsoring agencies and (2) selected agencies' assessments of program effectiveness and their guidance on inherently governmental functions. GAO reviewed program data for fiscal years 2010-2014, the five most recent years for which data were available; examined program policies and guidance at DOE, DOD, and HHS, the three agencies that sponsored the most participants in fiscal year 2014; and interviewed officials at those three agencies. GAO recommends that DOE, DOD, and HHS develop detailed guidance to inform their employees and research participants about inherently governmental functions.

Notes:

"January 2016."

"Accessible version."

"GAO-16-128."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed Jan 16, 2016).

OCLC:

935556924