GAO at a Glance
For fiscal year 2015: |
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Address: |
GAO Headquarters 441 G St., NW Washington, D.C. 20548 |
Offices in the following cities: | Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX: Dayton, OH; Denver, CO; Huntsville, AL; Los Angeles, CA; Norfolk, VA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. |
Year GAO was founded: | 1921 |
Telephone no.: | (202) 512-3000 (employee locator) |
Agency head: |
Gene L. Dodaro Comptroller General of the United States |
Staffing level: | Approximately 3,000 employees |
Budgetary resources: | $551.6 million |
Congressional testimony: | 109 |
Measurable financial benefits from GAO work: | $74.7 billion--a return of about $134 on every dollar invested in GAO |
Recommendations to improve government operations: | 1,680 (For fiscal year 2015, 79 percent of the recommendations GAO made four years earlier had been implemented.) |